The Milky Bar

[astronobob]

Howdy Astro-liano's
Had a few nights visiting sis-in-law, Gatton'ish SEQLD so, took along the newly acquired 'Astro-Tracker', Dslr 600D and some lenses for a burn !
But, who forgot a decent battery and a Dew-strap or two :question: :P
So, I was mainly stuck under the Veranda, which worked out beneficial enough :thumbsup:

This Image below Taken with the Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm; F/4.5;
Stock Canon 700D; ISO3200; 14 x 60 secs
Processed in DSStacker & CS3

Hope its worth the Squizz

[Derek Klepp]

Definitely gets some depth with the stacking Bob.

[Rigel003]

Nice Milky Way detail, Bob. According to the "500 rule" with a 10mm lens you should be able to go 50 secs untracked with no star trails being visible. If you're using a tracker there's not much point in doing 60 sec subs. You should easily be able to increase your individual subs to 5 mins or more with a 10mm lens.

[astronobob]

Not too shabby considering thanx Derek !
Mainly a 1st test run, but didnt go long subs due to dew, Lol, Next time :thumbsup:
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Cheers Graeme, & Agree totally with longer subs, speshly at 10mm,
Was quite fussy with polar alignment and quite happy with near zero trailing using the 'L' series 70-200mm @ 200mm for 60 secs :thumbsup:
Could of extended the exposures to just see what limits where had, but only did 'run-of-the-mill' stuff, so hopefully the next session should yield better results :)
Appreciate your input mate :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Looks great bob! :thumbsup: Drove through Gatton a few times coming from Pilton via Ma Ma Creek. Nice place.

[blink138]

not on a cropped sensor!............... 35 seconds actually is optimal
pat

[astronobob]

Cheers Marc'us :thumbsup: Yep, noice drive through that way !
I just say Gatton'ish as most seqldérs know roughly where it is, , I was actually at a little place call Grandchester,,, 'bout 6-8ks ESE of Laidley, Quite an Iconic area for the Steam-Powered Coal-Trains back in the day, , :thumbsup:
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True words, , , umm, common knowledge for some aswell :P :thanx:

[Retrograde]

Very nice Bob - suitably deep and the colours are great :thumbsup:

[astronobob]

Cheers Pete, always a challenge for color shades with dslrs, had on daylight white balance but still came up green, so changed it to 4,000Klvin Tungston if memory serves, :thumbsup:
Rgrds