Ah, celebrating the Winter Solstice! Ye Olde Photographer is totally ill-equipped for
anything even close to "astrophotography" but occasionally we make an effort, if naught
but to create a souvenir to jog memories in the future.

Indulging mostly in landscape and ordinary documentation subjects, the lens arsenal here is rather
sparse. A modest zoom that slides either side of "normal" by 20 or 30% is usually sufficient.
After attempting to record a comet a few years back YOP picked up a 70-210 Canon FD lens
at a giveaway price (the manual focus lenses don't fit the last twenty years' models). The idea
was that it offered a range and flexibility that might make it useful from time to time, even
in terrestrial pursuits.

So we used that on a Canon A-1 loaded with Fuji Provia 100F which took over two weeks to
get processed. In parallel with the A-1 we used the EOS 40D with a 24-85 zoom, the
compact walk-around lens YOP picked up early in his DSLR history. At present
the cheap 85mm on an APS-C sensor is the longest digital reach we have.

On the digital shots we used minimal post-processing, but did do a major cropping
to partly make up for the lack of a long lens. We stayed with ISO 100 to enable
determining exposures useful with the film shots. As such, some exposures ran out
to 10, 20, even 30 seconds, so there is noticeable motion ("star trails") as YOP
does not own anything close to a tracking telescope mount.

Given the outdoor air temperature solidly below freezing, by 3:45 am, YOP was easily convinced
sleep was more important than tracking more shots through to the return of the full moon!