EQ platform widefields - 27/08/2005

[iceman]

Hi guys.

Went to Kulnura on Saturday night, sky was clear, transparency was great so before doing some eyepiece testing I decided to do some widefield shots on the EQ platform.

Sony DSCP100 on the EQ platform, 10 x 30s exposures @ ISO400, aligned and stacked in Registar, processed in Photoshop.

The milkyway was right overhead and I couldn't position the tripod to get the camera pointing directly up! How annoying! So it's slightly off-centre.

The first shot is more lightly processed, and includes the frame that a plane decided to go through. The second shot is more heavily processed, and I excluded the frame containing the plane, so it's 9 shots stacked instead of 10.

I'm still working on a fullsize version, but here are the websized ones.

Comments welcome.

[h0ughy]

very nice Mike, I like how you can cut out the milky way to keep by following the dotted line!!

I actually like the first one better than the second

[seeker372011]

very nice..amazing what 30 seconds exposures can capture

[Orion]

Nice work Mike.

[atalas]

Yes nice shots Mike,I want to see bigger version !


Louie :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Thanks guys, hopefully i'll get time to do the bigger version in the next few days and I'll add some constellation lines again (if I can work out the boundaries!). With so many stars, it's hard to recognise :)

[asimov]

Nice work Mike!

[Robby]

Hey very nice Mike!! Be interesting to see what a couple of dark frames subtracts would do to it. I'm sure it would help you pull in more detail... Try it, if you haven't already.
Cheers