Southern Cross treasures

[Antu]

Hi Folks,

Recently I managed to capture an image of the Southern Cross constellation along with famous Eta Carinae nebulae. The weather was very good which allowed to get quite a deep view of this area.

Kenko Skymemo, Canon 400D (Hutech mod.), Canon 50/1.4 @ 2.8, ISO800, 30 x 4 min

High-resolution image (1600x950, 1.1Mb) is right here: http://tinyurl.com/5o42q7

Thanks for looking !

[dugnsuz]

Fantastic widefield Yuri.
Doug

[dannat]

Antu, great shot :thumbsup:- stars very sharp- what mount are you using?

[iceman]

Wow, absolutely stunning. I love widefields like this. I want to do widefields like this!

Thanks for posting.

[bluescope]

Very nice fov Yuri ! The Coal Sack looks great and I think that's the Running Chicken Nebula ................ left of Eta is it ?

:thumbsup:

[skeltz]

Great wide field yuri,they certainly help put everything into perspective.
And like mike i love wide fields too!:cool3:

[Garyh]

Nice Shot Antu....
Those super dark skies you have help go deep!
:thumbsup:

[jase]

Great composition Yuri. Wow, clusters are plentiful. I don't think I can recall I've seen the coal sack presented so aesthetically. Well done. Looking forward to your next post.

[Deeno]

Very nice indeed!!!

[strongmanmike]

Yes a very lovey image indeed Antu!

I really enjoyed looking at this image because it brought back fond memories from the mid 80's when I was a young man doing film photography, I photographed this field a few times with colour film and a 50mm lens, here is a poor scan of one of my old prints :)

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/73624455/original

and one done with B&W film:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/66993542/original

I was rather proud of these 24 years ago, now they are pretty lame really :lol:.

ah, yes...those were the days...

Thanks again :thumbsup:

Mike

[Ric]

Wow, stunning image Antu. The colour and clarity is wonderful.

A very fine widefield. Your dark sky is awesome.

Cheers

[Dietmar]

whooops! that is a gorgeous sight!
greatly done, Yuri.
looking forward for your next one...

[Alchemy]

What can i say that has not already been said. looks like youve produced a winner.:thumbsup:





even this old man below liked it..... i think we can call him Oldmanmike now perhaps,:lol:

[erick]

That really is marvellous, thanks very much and congratulations. It's mind-boggling to think there are so many stars in that direction!

Now the challenge - can anyone circle the Blue Planetary for me, please. I'm not sure which blue spot it is. I want to confirm why it's been such a challenge to locate. I did it once and it's about time I tried again.

[Antu]

Thanks guys for all your comments ! I really appreciate them. To obtain this image I used Kenko Skymemo portable mount: http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/kenko/skymemo/



Mike, your images are timeless ! I really love this region of the sky. Indeed it's very rich with star clusters, dark and emission nebulae. I think I was a bit lucky, the very good weather and dark sky cooperated with me.

[h0ughy]

fantastic Image - well captured

[Robert_T]

Wow, what a spectacular image... :thumbsup:you've gone so deep there's hardly any black bits left between the stars;)

[Tamtarn]

A wonderful widefield Yuri. Have to agree with Jase the first thing we noticed was the amazing capture of the coal sack.

[iceman]

Many congratulations to Yuri for securing APOD Today (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080707.html) with this absolutely fantastic image.

Well done!

[gregbradley]

Wonderful image Yuri.

Everything done just right.

Greg.

[AlexN]

congrats on a stunning image! The 50 mm 1.4 was the perfect tool for the job. Its delivered a great field of view and razor sharp stars.

[multiweb]

Great Stuff! :bowdown: