Barnard 86 & NGC 6520

[tornado33]

Last night I took this pic of dark nebula Barnard 86 & open cluster NGC 6520. 10 x 10 mins ISO200. Hutech modded 350D camera. UV/IR filter only. 10 inch f5.6 newtonian, Baader MPCC coma corrector. Off axis hand guided. Seeing only average, guide star boiling a bit. Also some moon in the sky. But a nice night to be under the stars very dry not a hint of dew.

Full resolution image here.
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/b86x10x10minsiso200uvirmod350d10inc h2.jpg

Scott

[h0ughy]

ink in a sea of sand

[Placidus]

Very pretty! The octopus ink on the sand is very convincing.

[Atmos]

That’s a lovely star field!
At high res it looks like sand with a random smattering of blue marbles.

[tornado33]

Thanks all. Imagine an exoplanet finder mission like Kepler studying every star in that field, then going wider to encompass most of the milky way, the numbers would be incredible.

[atalas]

Nice work Scott.

[gregbradley]

A wonderful shot. It really drives home how many stars there are in our galaxy.
Lovely colour
Greg

[theodog]

Great image Scott.
Makes one wonder why the sky isn't fully lit by stars at night (Olber's).
Well done.

[cometcatcher]

There's got go be life around one of those. Inspiring image Scott!

[Andy01]

That's a shedload of Stars! :lol:
Nicely done :thumbsup:

[Ryderscope]

Wonderful image. Nice capture of the cluster against a starry background.

[Paul Haese]

Hand guided perfection. That is indistinguishable from auto guided. Nice golden stars and inky black of the dark nebula.

[tornado33]

Thanks all. Its satisfying to push the technique and equipment to the limit to see what I can get.

[h0ughy]

i still reckon the old guider has a fault, something is definitely broken:rofl:

;)

[tornado33]

As long as the supply of hot chocolate is kept up the old guider will function well:)
Fully dissasembled the mount yesterday, degreased and regreased all the bearings, cleaned the worm and drive wheel, hopefully it will track even better now

[RickS]

That's amazing!