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Toddylamo
10-04-2022, 11:29 AM
Another bucket list pairing completed. I took this four-panel mosaic in one night while camping in a Bortle 1 location in the Darling Downs.

This went pretty smoothly until I had a power failure while shooting my final panel (upper left quadrant), which was luckily one that did not contain too much nebulosity - or anything interesting for that matter. It ended up only being about 45 minutes behind the other 3 panels, which were 2 hours each. Shooting at F/2 on a moonless, bortle 1 night was as good as it sounds, and I am pretty happy with the amount of faint stuff I was able to pull out with only 2 hours of exposure.

Eqipment: Samyang 135mm, ASI294MC Pro, Wedged Nexstar Evolution Mount, Optolong UV/IR Cut, Orion 50mm Guide Scope, ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera.

Processing: DSS -> Photoshop (Starnet V2, RCA Gradient Xterminator, RCA Star Shrink, Topaz Denoise)

Astrobin Link (https://www.astrobin.com/full/0ewyc2/B/)

kosborn
10-04-2022, 12:38 PM
Very nice image and framing Harry. I can only dream of Bortle 1 skies....


Kevin

Toddylamo
10-04-2022, 01:35 PM
Thanks Kevin,

Happy to live in a country where Bortle 1 is really only 3 hours away from anywhere…

Kuz
10-04-2022, 02:38 PM
Nice capture Harry can't beat a nice wide field image

gregbradley
10-04-2022, 05:27 PM
That's a terrific shot. A good widefield is quite an uplifting image.

Greg.

Retrograde
11-04-2022, 09:05 AM
Very nice - love this region. :thumbsup:

Spaceman_Brown
20-04-2022, 04:15 PM
That. Is. AWESOME! What a great image. I love wide field work like this. Southern hemisphere represent 🤜

pkinchington
21-04-2022, 09:49 AM
I like this composition- much! :)

Nikolas
21-04-2022, 02:34 PM
Excellent Composition there mate, you also got Lady Liberty and the Southern Tadpoles.