Alright, I've spent waaay too much time prodding this one left, right and centre. The first picture from a perfect two dark nights astrophotography down at Nerriga south of Sydney. But having seen some of the stunning deep work on show here, this feels a bit, well, amateur for this forum
15 x 5 minutes, EOS 60D on 150mm Newtonian at ISO800, HEQ5pro & off-axis autoguider. Lovely dark skies that show all my flat issues are due to local streetlights etc in town! I mostly took this as an afterthought following good images of the Helix and NGC300. But seeing the recent staggering Helix and NGC300 images here
, thought I'd put this up first.
I've had real issues with colour balance from my rubbish laptop (laptop blue looks brown/yellow/green on a properly-calibrated screen), so if it looks on your screen much other than yellowish in the middle and bluish on the outside, please let me know! And other comments/criticisms/tips other than "more data" will be most welcome
Larger version of the closeup.
Larger version of the wider view.