Widefield christmas tree/hubbles variable

[bmitchell82]

On the weekend headed out to tammin, with average wind on the first night of 48km/h with gusts into the 60's and the second night it calmed down to mid 20's my wind beast proformed sweetly. Heat played a big part of the 40d's ability to capture the faint whispy stuff or the lack there of.

15 x 10min ISO 800 Canon 40d
finder guider and dsi for the guiding
ED 80 Progold for the tunes so to speak :D
EQ6 holding the lot

Processed in PS CS3, stacked in DSS

second shot is the Flaming star to which i think i have hit the 40d's limit as it is just too faint. i needed a 3 min ISO 1600 shot just to make out a tiny bit of nebulosity, so mainly i was going on the fact that my pointing accuracy was good and it was.

14 x 10min ISO 800 canon 40d and the rest of the setup was exactly the same as previous

the images are interlaced so they will be a tad blurry untill finished downloading

christmas tree and presents

http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/brendanmitchell1982/?action=view&current=christmastreecluster.png

Flaming star- what you can see of it :D

http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/brendanmitchell1982/?action=view&current=flamingstar.png

[Garyh]

Not bad Brendan, you hsve gone fsirly deep for sure.
Tough object for sure for us DSLR users!

[TrevorW]

Not to shabby Brendan well done

[Hagar]

Very nice images well captured and processed.

Well done. I rather like the overall field of view.

[bmitchell82]

thanks all for your comments.

yes gary, it wasn't a easy target to capture good detail though i was a little worried when there where spots of no stars i thought DSS had stuffed up or something :) and hubbles variable, i thought something else had gone wrong before i had identified it in starry nights.

Thankyou doug I must say that the ed 80 provides a pleasing wide field vista. im looking forward to tackling the rho opphicuni nebula in scorpio this year with it. might have to mosaic but all good :)

[Astrobserver99]

Nice widefield image Brendan. What is the f ratio of your scope?

[bmitchell82]

same as your one cheif i belive. SW ED 80 gold tube they are a awsome little setup

[Astrobserver99]

f/7.5 - Yes, great scope.

[rogerg]

Wow, a tone of nebulosity there. Done well to get all that in the 40D.