So we were sitting in the car warming ourselves up, waiting for Kasia’s star trails to finish.  At this point I completely gave up on trying to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy.  The amount of time needed to properly setup my star tracker, and align it, and the cold was too much for me.  I have no idea how I managed to get the Orion Nebula a while back.  I really don’t.  I realized that if I ever want to attempt photographing any deep sky objects I will need to invest in better gear.  Not necessarily photographic gear, just better mount and tripod.  So with Kasia’s awesome star trails, all I could get is some fruit loops.

With the coming New Year, we hope it will bring you a lot of photographic happiness and lots of great photographs!

Enjoy, and we will talk to you next week!