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Some widefields
Took these last week from some clear skies while up at Mt Beauty for a few days. Most nights were clear with the moon rising close to and after midnight. I had only brought my portable rig with me - an iOptron Sky Tracker and an unmodded Fujifilm XT-100 mirrorless camera. These were taken from the backyard of the house we were staying at so there was some light around from neighbouring properties. Despite this, the sky was heaps clearer and darker than the Bortle 6 skies I shoot from back home. All shots had no more than 1 hour exposure with a 200mm SUN f2.8 lens, in the case of the LMC, it included 30 mins using a 7nm Ha filter ( the XT-100 is quite sensitive to Ha ). Carina's exposure was only 5 x 1 mins. The Witch Head nebula was getting too low in the west to achieve a decent result, especially with such short integration times.
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