LMC [yawn]

[raymo]

5 x 60 secs 50mm at f/2.8 ISO 1600. Nano Tracker.
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[sil (Steve)]

nice shot, the lmc seems nicely separated to me from the stars, as it should be, really a good "hanging in space" feel.

odd you seem to have a fair bit of distortion in the bottom left corner, maybe from cropping down from wider field? was just bugging at me looking at this shot.

[Startrek (Martin)]

Raymo
Great image ,nice colour and plenty of detail
Definitely no yawning matter

I’d go anything to get a good clear night , the mid to south east coast of NSW has been plagued with low pressure fronts one behind the other with plenty of cloud since mid December with only a few clear nights of ordinary seeing , that’s summer on the coastal strip I suppose
Thinking of those poor folk in northern QLD getting an absolute drenching

Keep those images coming as you must have some good clear skies lately

Cheers

[raymo]

Thanks Sil, Yes cropped , but only a little to get rid of the stacking artifacts
at the edges. It is an el cheapo lens [about $70 new inc postage] so
aberrations don't surprise me.

Thanks Martin, I get about 35-45 usable nights per year, and they mostly
come in an almost continuous block in Summer.
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[Michael_A]

Hi Raymo, I’m new to astronomy and would love to get into astrophotography. I have just purchased a Celestron NexStar Evolution 6” SCT which sits on a heavy duty Alt-Azimuth. From reading various web articles I’m pretty sure I need to change over to an equatorial mount (EQ5?) but I’m also keen to mount my camera (thinking about upgrading to a Sony A6300 or Nikon D5600) on something similar to what you have and taking pics of deep space objects. Any tips for a beginner?

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Yawn!!!! That's bloody awesome Raymo. Your 5 min is way above my hours worth on the target.

[raymo]

Hi Michael, Too many options, budget limitation questions, and other
relevant matters, to conduct ongoing communication here. I'll PM you.
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[RyanJones]

Nice work Raymo. I agree it has a nice hanging in space feel about it

[raymo]

Thanks Ryan, quite the opposite to my 100mm version of LMC which had a sort of dreamlike effect due to a little condensation on the lens optics.
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[raymo]

Chris, Sorry I missed your post which came up almost immediately I finished my last reply. Thanks for the compliment. I stick with simple, that way I don't
get superb results, but I get decent results with less to go wrong.
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[Paulyman (Paul)]

Looks great Ray. I’m the same as Martin, we finally had our first apparent clear night in ages on sunday night, but it was a trap, the radar showed two massive thunderstorms inbound... Again.

[xelasnave]

Great image Raymo ...
Alex

[raymo]

Thanks Paul and Alex.
raymo