YAWN!! yet another widefield

[raymo]

22x30secs @40mm ISO 1600. This has lost a lot of sharpness downsizing.
raymo

[Atmos (Colin)]

Centaurus through to Carina, very nice

[PKay (Peter)]

Hi Raymo, assume your yawning having been up all night?

A great wide field shot. Well done

[sil (Steve)]

nice
I can see a turtle

[raymo]

Thanks fellas. 22x30secs would be a very short night Peter.
raymo

[xelasnave]

Good one Raymo.
Repetition is good so try not to yawn☺
If all goes well I will have a truck load over the next couple of weeks.
Almost packed ready for some dark site work and may order a water tank to stop the rain.

Alex

[raymo]

Thanks Alex, I am waiting for a device to arrive so that I can hopefully
achieve better PA and then use much longer focal lengths.
raymo

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by raymo

Thanks Alex, I am waiting for a device to arrive so that I can hopefully
achieve better PA and then use much longer focal lengths.
raymo

Are you getting a polemaster perchance?
I just got mine so hoping for big things.
Alex

[raymo]

No Alex, the sighting hole on the nano tracker is useless for the southern celestial pole, so got the alignment device for the Vixen Polarie which gets
me close, but not close enough. I have copied Mickoid's [Michael's]
method and am getting a finderscope and attaching it to a sturdy metal
plate so it is parallel to the tracker's sighting hole. Align the scope with the
sighting hole on a distant object during the day, and then use the finder to find the appropriate stars in Octans at night.
raymo

[Icearcher (Chris)]

Very nice Raymo, thats a great shot.

I love that part of the sky, strangely, it always makes me feel at home. Its just such an Australian view. Iv been looking up at that area since I was a small boy.

[raymo]

Yes Chris, and a number of the best known Southern objects lay in that area.
raymo