Cats Paw and friend

[bojan]

I was experimenting a bit with my modified Canon FD 400mm F/2.8 at NGC 6334 last Saturday from Ballarat, aiming was a bit off, and a friend (NGC 6302) sneaked in the frame (upper left corner).
I will try it next time with Rubinar 1100mm

Canon 450D FSM, 16x2min stack, darks, flats, processed in DSS, curves in DPP.

[strongmanmike]

Pretty cool really :thumbsup:

Mike

[Atmos]

It is smallish but it is pretty bright :)

[RickS]

That's a successful experiment, Bojan.

[bojan]

Another quickie - now a friend, alone...
11x60 sec stack, ISO1600, Rubinar 1000_10, Canon 450D FSM, L-Pro filter.
Lights, darks, flats in DSS, curves in DPP.

[Placidus]

Nice!

Serendipidous discoveries are great fun. My very first attempt at astrophotography, using a Canon EOS 20D on an unguided Celestron 9.25 with a pathetic finderscope, I tried photographing the Trifid, because at least I'd heard of it. It was almost on the meridian, and I was lying on an ant-hill somewhere in King's Tableland trying to point the thing, just using Norton's Atlas. Came home with a lovely smudgy photo of the Lagoon.

M

[atalas]

A great effort there bojan.....sounds like your having fun too!

[atalas]

Ah the good old days eh Mike....thought you were going to say "come home with ant bites all over my butt" :lol: till I read to the end....could of been a funny story...kinda.