Hi all,
I visited Leyburn for the first time last night with a few friends from IIS.
Seeing wasn't the greatest and the fog + airglow was pretty thick, but thanks to the cooler weather I finally managed to get more signal than noise on my longer exposure tracked DSLR shots (click on links for larger versions):
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Scorpius and the Milky Way: 19x 181 sec (57 mins total), f/2.8, ISO 800 subs taken with a stock Canon 5DmkII + 24 mm f/1.4L II mounted on an Astrotrac.
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Corona Australis: 11x 181 sec (33 mins total), f/4, ISO 1600 subs taken with a stock Canon 5DmkII + 100 mm f/2.8L IS Macro mounted on an Astrotrac. This one definitely needed more data.
3.
Crux and Lambda Centauri Nebula: 15x 182 sec (45 mins total), f/4, ISO 1600 subs taken with a stock Canon 5DmkII + 100 mm f/2.8L IS Macro mounted on an Astrotrac.
All shots stacked in DSS (lights only - no darks/flats/bias) and processed with PS CS5 and GradientXTerminator. Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Dave