Happy New Year IISers!
The Hogmanay Horsie came out to play for New Year at our friends Norm and Lauren's place in Nerriga, NSW. While we all relaxed and played games in the run up to midnight, the scope was working away on this image, snapping through the odd thin high cloud. The cloud spilling from the remains of the tropical disturbance over NT threatened to spoil the party, but just about stayed away, though I lost about 50% of the frames.
One of the first full images from my new scope, a 200mm f/5 Newtonian from Bintel, and I'm pretty happy so far. The picture's a wee bit noisy as once again I'm limited to a little over an hour of light, but I'm pretty happy to have got a good amount of the various bits of dust, and hopefully can add to it if I get some more dark sky time.
15 x 5 minutes, 200mm f/5 Newtonian, EOS 60D, ISO800, other usual kit.
A larger view is
here.