The Great Galactic Kiwi is a complex of dark nebulae in Ophiuchus which obscures the many background stars in the direction of the Milky Way galactic centre. The field contains a rich haul of Messier objects (including M7, M8, M20), NGC objects, Barnard "B" dark nebulae, etc. The whole field is approximately 21x14 degrees.
Objects in image:
Kiwi/Pipe Nebula (B65, B66, B67, B78) and many other Barnard dark nebulae, M6, M7, M8, M9, M19, M20, M21, M23, M62, many NGCs
A very good image. Bit of a shame that the Lagoon and Trifid are mostly half missing.
The yellowish star clouds could be more firey and look a tad muted in colour to my eye. There are many wide angle shots that show these clouds and they often look like fire.
B.E.A.U.tiful!
Great to browse around. I like the saturation and colours. Very cool field.
Thanks, Mr Sandals & cool accent
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
Great success
Thanks, David.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Wonderful! Who needs to photograph other galaxies when we've got our very own?
Thanks very much, M&T. Hard to do much more at 100mm focal length but I have enjoyed the change and might do some more...
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Originally Posted by peter_4059
Cool image Rick. The dark dusty stuff looks great at this scale.
Thanks, Peter!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Very nice Rick...something tells me there might be some more panels coming..?
Ta, Mike. I didn't plan any mosaics in detail but I might be able to add a little to the top of this one
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Originally Posted by ozstronomer
A really beautiful wide field Rick
That's a cracker of a lens
Thanks, Geoff. The Zeiss was a good choice it seems!
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Originally Posted by RobF
Great stuff. Looking forward to more Rick....
Thanks, Rob. A few more to go...
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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
What's not to love about wide field, Rick
I could get to like it, Dunk, but I'll run out of sky eventually
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A very good image. Bit of a shame that the Lagoon and Trifid are mostly half missing.
The yellowish star clouds could be more firey and look a tad muted in colour to my eye. There are many wide angle shots that show these clouds and they often look like fire.
Thanks, Greg. I think I have a panel that will complete the Lagoon. I'm going for relatively muted colours to start with but I expect I'll have them flaming violently in no time
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Originally Posted by Geoff45
Nice composition and detail Rick. The kiwi is amazingly realistic.
Thanks, Geoff!
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Originally Posted by troypiggo
Very cool. I agree with Greg - shame the Lagoon is just cut off, but I know it's hard to frame through viewfinder manually.
Thanks, Troy. Framing through an optical viewfinder while kneeling on hard, parched ground is less than ideal but I think I have the top half of the Lagoon somewhere in my data
Splendid wide field image Rick. It was a bit of a pleasant surprise to get an image from you with a relatively short explore and even more so to see that you have been experimenting with a dslr !
Splendid wide field image Rick. It was a bit of a pleasant surprise to get an image from you with a relatively short explore and even more so to see that you have been experimenting with a dslr !
Thanks, Suavi. It has been fun!
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
This is nice Rick. Colours, composition and detailing are all good. The inky blackness of the dark nebulae is my favourite though.
Thanks very much, Paul.
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Originally Posted by petershah
just Beautiful Rick...lovely golden field with beautiful dark nebula
