New Milky Way Widefield Centred on M17

[2020BC]

Exposure: 54x1mins 1600ISO
Canon 350D unmod; 50mm EF II f1.8 at f6.3; Meade LXD-75. No filters.

For the full wide version click here (http://www.zodiaclight.com/images/M17MilkyWay50mmf1.8Atf6.3Lens54x1mi nsISO1600guidedOptimizedDarks07Jun0 8SlitWeb1280.jpg)

The thumbnail attached below is a crop.

[glenc]

Great shot Bill!

[Bloodbean]

Bill you're taking some fantastic shots with the 50mm lens!!! Good on ya, keep up the good work.

Troy

[strongmanmike]

You are doing some nice camera lens work Bill, I'm enjoying it, cheers.

You will need to combine them all into a Milky Way mozaic when you have finished.

Back in 1984 when still at high school in Canberra, a friend of mine Attila Horvath and I mozaiced the Milky Way one night with Kodak Ektachrome 400 plus 50mm lens at f2.8 with a series of 30 and 45min exposures from dusk to dawn and it come out great. so much so that the resulting (huge) 9 X A4 colour print mozaic, along with several other panels of our astrophotos plus info, won us three awards and $180 (lots of dosh for two 17 year olds then!) at the 1984 ACT Schools Science Fair (most success by a single entrany till then too) the astrophotography bug had well and truly bitten...and, well?...has never let go :)

MIke

[Alchemy]

nice image bill, captured some of the more popular targets all in one go!

[jase]

Great work Bill. I enjoy the composition and aesthetics of this image with the diagonal galactic plane. IMO, this doesn't beat your recent mosaic post. Well done.

[cookie8]

Nice work Bill
Good lens good value for money. No coma noticable towards the edges. Just received mine 2 days ago can't wait to do the same under dark sky.
:P Vincent