Hi all
Here's a rather deep image showing part of the Norma Nebula centered on the NGC 6188 (RCW 108) nebula. The striking red background that fills most of the frame is nebula! In fact the only truly black background I could find on the image are some small dark lanes that run down to the bottom left of the image.
The image is a stack of 18 x 2-minute exposures (36-minutes total) @ ISO-400 with the modified Canon 300D at the 2-inch prime focus of my 12-inch f/5 GSO scope on GEM. Hand guiding done with 4.5" f/18 guidescope. Used the 2" Baader Coma Corrector and 2" Baader UV/IR Cut Filter.
Dark frame subtraction, bias and flat-fielded in Iris, processed in Photoshop, Noiseware.
There's a much better resolution image here
http://www.skylab.com.au/pmsa/ngc6188.html
This area of the sky would be an excellent target for all those ED80 owners out there, I think the entire nebula covers for than 3° of the sky.
Paul M