[Mickoid (Michael)]

While Carina seems to be in vogue at the moment, here's a widefield view to add to the collection. I took this last night from my Bortle 6 suburban backyard with a 40 year old SUN 200mm lens. I made an external aperture of around f 5.6 to fit on the front of the lens (the internal aperture is stuck wide open). Tried to get as much colour as I could from the light polluted skies and so combined two sets of data, some Triband filtered and UVIR cut filter shots to help achieve this. The stars have some fringing if you look closely but the overall picture came out OK. Taken with a modded Canon 550d, unguided on an old HEQ5 non-GOTO mount.