Galactic Widefield from A.S.I.G.N.

[bloodhound31]

Our galactic centre near Sagittarius. Lagoon and Trifid nebulae centre image.

Cannon EOS 400D unmodified with 75-300mm lens at F/5.6

12 x 2 minute exposures at ISO800

Piggybacked on fork mounted and polar aligned Nexstar 11 GPS

Manual guiding

Darks subtracted and processed with Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop

The sky was beautiful tonight until the moon took over. Friday nights are my best night, but there are so many factors against limiting yourself to a particular night per week. I would have added more subs, but the extra light in the sky may have ruined it.

Anyway, I hope you all like it.

Cheers,

Baz.:D

[seeker372011]

very nice

I agree Friday is the best night..but unlike you I stayed inside watching the telly :(

[Dr Nick]

Beautiful image!!! ;)

[Terry B]

Nice I didn't bother last night due to the moon. Tonight the scope is set up outside, nicely aligned and currently taking dark frames because a nice blanket of fog is sitting over the top of my house. GRRRRR

[Ric]

A lovely and sharp image Baz. that has to be one of your top ten so far.

Very nice indeed.

Cheers