Spent the long weekend camping on a farm in the Koreehla national park. Naturally dragged my scope along. Beautiful weather. Did my back in quite badly lifting the gear out of my car but I managed to lay in the grass and shout instructions at my friends to get the telescope set up.
a) pulled muscle in the back really sucks!
b) 2 nights of idling a car uses 1/4 of a tank of gas.
c) sometimes a 200mm lens produces some kickass results and I shouldn't have bothered lifting the C8 and putting my back out in the first place.
NGC6334 and NGC6357 in this widefield.
Larger version :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10090242@N03/10154194124/
Taken on a QHY10 with a Nikkor AF 80-200mm f/2.8D
Mixture of 3minute and 5minute subs
Total exposure time 2 hours
Now excuse my while I check the classifieds if anyone's offering up something with a wider focal length than my C8
