MilkyWay Band from Beauy

[astronobob (Bob)]

Not sure if this shoud be in Deep Sky or not but any which ?

Bortle 2'ish skies last night '14th Jul' Rathdowney SEQld. Very Clear with approx 60-65% Humidity & the current Jetstream which I really doubt effect wide field much..

Only 6 x 30sec subs, ISO-2500
Sigma Art 20mm F/1.4 @ F/2
6D II on StarTracker

I took settings off Standard and tried the 'Detail' option,, & I find it does a better job with stars in one big way, but unfortunately impedes the stars in another way, not much noticed in the proccessed Jpg web file - so here it is !

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Hi Bob,

Lovely rich colourful image

RichardJ

[gregbradley]

Lovely image. It looks very good in the corners. Very little coma.

Greg.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by RichardJ

Hi Bob,

Lovely rich colourful image

RichardJ

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Lovely image. It looks very good in the corners. Very little coma.

Greg.

Cheers Richard & Greg, it has been cropped a tad, wish I had Alt/Alt head on the track-mount to compose 2 panals squarely across.
Have another 1 or 2 to do from the night & going out again tonight. clear as SE Qld at-the-moment

[Derek Klepp]

Good one Bob my Sigma 20mm does exactly the same thing to stars (middle top).The 14mm art shows even more and is prone to stray light .
Derek

[astronobob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by Derek Klepp

Good one Bob my Sigma 20mm does exactly the same thing to stars (middle top).The 14mm art shows even more and is prone to stray light .
Derek

Thnx,
I decided against the 14 for $ reasons. They are both pretty good lenses tho, doubt can make a lens this wide and fast without some minor edge irregularities.
I find cropping upto 100pixles off the sides and upto 200 top and bottom - thats portrait mode !

Am currently stacking some 4-panel vertical panos from the 20mm, what a nightmare Worth the experimentation at least !

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

excellent shot Bob!