Baade's Window

[kosborn]

A little glimpse of the galactic centre, peering through the interstellar dust. This was 19x 12 second exposures at 3200 ISO from a stationary tripod, registered and stacked in PixInsight. One of these days I'll piggy the DSLR to my mount...

[PKay]

We never grow tired of the detail that the cameras reveal.

Nice image Kevin :thumbsup:

[xelasnave]

I love these shots Kevin and you have delivered a good one.
Great to see you finally got to try some wide field and I hope you do many more before long.
alex

[kosborn]

Thanks Peter!





Thanks Alex. I have a good Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 lens that I used for this and should use more often. Next time I'm in Sydney I'll visit the nice people at Bintel and see if they have a good way to attach the camera to my mount.


Kevin

[xelasnave]

I may be able to help as I have a spare alluminium plate that works great...but I will be away from it for a while.
I will post a photo of the one I use later.
Alex

[Tropo-Bob]

I was just reading about the significance of Baade's Window yesterday.

Thanks Kevin for the image.

[kosborn]

Thanks Bob, it's an interesting part of the sky. It's probably at this stage that I should admit that the image started as a test shot looking for the rho oph cloud complex. I was way off but when I realised where I was I thought I might as well keep going!