Crux region 12th March, 2011

[Astroman]

Hi guys,

Here is a rather poor image of the crux region taken with my star tracker and a Canon 400D and 17-40mm lens at 40mm. Not ideal as there was a huge gradient across the image due to the setting sun and moonlight. Was hoping to get more data when the constellation got higher but cloud made sure that wasn't going to happen :( Also the noise from the Canon is becoming a pain at ISO800, plus it was riddled with hot and cold pixels. So all up not the best. I will revisit this area next month hopefully, when the moon is new and the skies are clear...

EDIT: Forgot to mention this is a sum of 30 x 1m 30s exposures stacked in DSS.

[Octane]

Andy,

That is a beautiful portrait. I would love to do this again some day -- it was the subject of my first astro image all those years ago. :)

H

[spearo]

lots of stuff in there
great area to image
frank

[jjjnettie]

You've got some lovely star colour happening there Andrew.
One of the bonuses of using short subs.
Did you use darks and flats?