spsp wide field

[zardos123]

night one; antaries, after setting up the sky was great, lucked out with the alignment simple compass and smart phone level and bingo five minute unguided subs 9x298sec pentax A 200mm @ f4 (wideopen) iso1250
night two; tried to teach myself to drift align after several hour subs have gone from 5 to 2 minutes :shrug: i suck at drift aligning!!!so 10x 117 sec pentax 28mm @ f4 iso1000 for one shot and iso 1250 the other
night three; a lesson on drift aligning from dennis zambelis, thanks dennis.......then out of the darkness appears mike sidonio:eyepop: five minute demo with the pole scope and i am getting 15min+ on eta carina with no noticeable drift!!! thanks mike:thumbsup:. Then you know what happens.............clouds:mad2:. But i am wrapped with the stuff i have and have a couple yet to process, now i need to learn how to improve that, maybe control those blue/white stars better ;-)
regards brad

[h0ughy]

great stuff , looks like you had fun and a learning experience. mike is a legend eh?!

[iceman]

Beautiful shots!

[multiweb]

Good stuff. Looks like you had heaps of fun. :thumbsup: The sky was unreal hey?

[Larryp]

Great images-love the colours!

[naskies]

Nice work, Brad. I love that area of the Milky Way - it's so rewarding when shooting with a DSLR!

[Ross G]

Great looking photos Brad.

The blue/purple stars are due to Chromatic Abberation in the camera lenses. I get it a lot also when I use SLR lenses.

Greg Bradley sent me a great solution using Photoshop. If you like, I can send it to you.

Ross.

[Retrograde]

Very nice Brad. I particularly like the Antares region one.

[lacad01]

Nice work and good to hear you got a helping hand :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Good shots Brad. The first one is the standout.
Geoff

[strongmanmike]

They look a bit better than on your phone Brad :thumbsup:

Mike

[gregbradley]

Nice work Brad. Milky Way shots are great fun to take and process.

Greg.

[zardos123]

Thanks all of you, i appreciate your gracious comments, yep mike is a legend, but i really admire his willingness to share his knowledge thx again mike i have been out most nights since the lesson, and with bino,s and i recon i can now find octans reliably so that has been a big boost
ross; i would love to see the solution to the star problem, anything greg has to say on the matter is worth checking out :thumbsup: and any help to lessen the steep learning curve is a bonus
brad

[strongmanmike]

No legend, just love to have everyone able to polar align in minutes rather than hours :thumbsup:

So do you remember where the SCP is in relation to Sigma though..?

Mike

[zardos123]

I think so, i should be able to get it pretty darn close i will have to wait until time and weather permit a test run at home. after that a few minor adjustments to the set up and i should be able to start getting some decent data to begin learning the black art of processing;)
brad