[Mickoid (Michael)]

There are a lot of animals overhead this time of year and I decided to seek some of them out and take a snapshot.

The popular Eagle nebula was something I tried last year with a 4 inch refractor and despite it being a nice widefield, you just couldn't see enough detail to make it interesting. Friday night I shot it from the outskirts of Melbourne with a 1000mm of focal length to enhance it's central region.

So this M16 is a stack of 50 x 1min at 800iso, cropped a little to remove distracting stars.

M8 was a stack of 15 subs at 800 iso. 10 x 1 min from my suburban front yard about a week ago and another 5 x 1 min with a CLS filter to finish off the night after I shot M16. A total of 15 minutes.

The Prawn, Cat's Paw and Lobster were from my suburban front yard using a Sigma 50 - 200mm lens @ 200mm and were made up of a combination of UVIR and CLS CCD filters, 20mins for each. The Cat's Paw and Lobster didn't turn out very well from this Light Polluted location. I had to stretch the histogram a fair bit to give some definition to the nebulas, hence the resulting graininess.

Saturn was just a try at RGB imaging with the ZWO 120MM-S under atrocious seeing, I was surprised the result even looks like Saturn! This was my first attempt at imaging Saturn this way.

All deep sky shots were taken with the Modded Canon 550d.