Excellent photo's from all. It has been a pleasure viewing through all these great shots all year, even though I don't actually reply to most.
I didn't have a particularly productive year for one reason or another and am now trying to get my enthusiasm back for it to start a fresh hit of astro photography at the next new moon.
I was interested to discover what could be achieved with a 350D and fixed tripod:
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...y.jsp?Item=352
.. and had a little fun with short wide field exposures in light polution, learning some more LP removal techniques:
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...y.jsp?Item=351
.. then achieved another nice simple wide field shot of the LMC:
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=414
.. very recently added the CFW-8 which has huge potential for me:
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=527
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=524
BUT, the winner for me which takes the cake for the year is the fun I had with my Hubble Deep Field South project, reaching about mag 22.5, a distance of 4 to 5 billion light years and objects of about 9 billion years in age (older than our solar system of course..):
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...y.jsp?Item=418
I doubt I'll get a significantly larger number of images in 2007, but am hoping to achieve more with respect to fields of large numbers of faint objects, and pushing the limits further than HDF-S.
Roger.