Howdy all
Many thanks to Bert (avandonk) for kindly loaning me his Canon 300mm F2.8 flourite lens. It arrived totay, well packed, and I lost no time in fitting it to my mount as shown
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/mod350d/300mmlens.jpg
My setup looks agricultural, but gee the lens works fantastically well.
2 inch nebula filters fit nicely in the back of the lens too! I tried out my 2 inch UHCS filter when taking these pics.
Now remember these pics were taken with the moon at about 93% full. Whoever herad of doing deep sky work under such conditions
Full sized versions here
http://scottalder.fotopic.net/c918683.html
Darks, flats and offsets done in IRIS, then finished off in Photoshop CS. Because of the wide field I used Gradient xterminator to smooth things over too.
Modified 350D camera used.
Im astounded at seeing the Rosette under near full moonlight. Dratted plane went across one of the pics, I should reprocess it without it, but was in a hurry to show off what Bart's piece of glass can do.
Scott