Digging some widefields

[Garbz]

Spent the long weekend camping on a farm in the Koreehla national park. Naturally dragged my scope along. Beautiful weather. Did my back in quite badly lifting the gear out of my car but I managed to lay in the grass and shout instructions at my friends to get the telescope set up.
a) pulled muscle in the back really sucks!
b) 2 nights of idling a car uses 1/4 of a tank of gas.
c) sometimes a 200mm lens produces some kickass results and I shouldn't have bothered lifting the C8 and putting my back out in the first place.

NGC6334 and NGC6357 in this widefield.

Larger version : http://www.flickr.com/photos/10090242@N03/10154194124/

Taken on a QHY10 with a Nikkor AF 80-200mm f/2.8D
Mixture of 3minute and 5minute subs
Total exposure time 2 hours

Now excuse my while I check the classifieds if anyone's offering up something with a wider focal length than my C8 ;)

[nebulosity.]

Love it :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Top quality widefield.

Jo

[Larryp]

Very nice!

[RickS]

That's lovely, Chris! Perhaps even worth a bad back, so long as it is some else's :lol:

[multiweb]

Very nicely done. Spot on colors with some very sharp details. Great field too. :thumbsup:

[Garbz]

Thanks all. It feels a bit like cheating though. 200mm focal length is quite forgiving for poor polar alignment :)

[naskies]

Nice work, Chris. You have some great detail in there, and a very pleasing field of view too.

[astronobob]

Top imaging Chris, a very interesting field, I have never seen these two together like this, wow, they look great in widefield, very well done :thumbsup:

[Ross G]

Great looking widefiled Chris.

I love your perserverence!

Camera lenses in that 100mm to 200mm range produce the best looking astro photos.

Ross.