M8 and M20 Wide Field

[jjjnettie]

I was feeling lazy tonight so I just put the camera on the mount. No guiding!!! What bliss.
1hr and 35min of 5min subs. Captured using a CDS1100D @ ISO400 using a Tamron 90mm F2.8 Macro lens @ F4.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS3. :)

Higher res image here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_jjj_unprocessed_data/9221406109/sizes/o/in/photostream/

[pluto]

The high res is beautiful! The little one doesn't do it justice :)

[gregbradley]

Fantastic! I love the golden colour of the stars in this area.

Greg.

[astroboy]

Great image jjjnettie that Tamron is tack sharp
Do you find there's much difference between taking a lot of exposures and stacking them and just taking one longish one ?
I usually take one exposure of up to 15 mins @ ISO 1600 on a 5DII , I know I'm setting a new low in Lazy but am I missing out on much ?

Thanks
Zane

[Ross G]

Nice wide photo Jeanette.

Good colours and very sharp.

Ross.

[Larryp]

Very nice!

[Paul Haese]

Nice colour JJJ. Field of view really shows the position of these three nebulae.

[RickS]

Very nice, JJJ! Glad to see you must have missed the 10CH cloud last night.

[elfinke]

Wow, astonishing picture, and taken with 'just' a modified 1100D (a cooled 1100D, is that right)? Damn. Thanks for sharing!

[strongmanmike]

This is an excellent Sagittarius star cloud shot JJJ with excellent stars across the frame. Great work for having to not even autoguide either ;)...ahhh imaging laziness, gotta love it :thumbsup:

Mike