Five days ago, a Limpkin was spotted at the Hendrix Creek Preserve. The next day, my daughter and I saw it. Possibly the easiest life bird ever. Today I went back to get pictures and there he still was not ten feet from where we saw him.
I walked the Arkansas Arboretum Trail, Sunday May the first. Lots of interesting bird sounds, At one point I heard the distinct water dripping sound of a Swainson’s Thrush and then spotted this guy.
Friday evening was a good evening at the River Ridge Observatory. Other than continuous lightning in the east that turned into nothing but lasted until about 2 AM, the conditions were pretty good. I stayed and imaged until 4:30 Saturday morning. This will be the first of a few posts about my results.
I set up my 11″ Elf with the Hyperstar so I could shoot at f/1.9 and added an Optolong L-eNhance filter to the setup. This filter blocks most light but lets the reddish Hydrogen-alpha line, the blueish Hydrogen-beta line, and the greenish Oxygen III through so that your color camera can still do RGB photography. I used my ZWO ASI294MC Pro.
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