Hi all
This widefield was taken on Saturday night/Sunday morning, at our local new moon met at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club.
It was taken with my unmodded Canon 350D with a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, stopped down to f/4. I could only fit in 8x 400s exposures (with ICNR) before a meridian flip was due, so I just stopped there. It was almost 3am anyway and time to start packing up.
The camera + lens were piggybacked on the ED80, which was auto-guided on my EQ6 using a refractor and my DMK.
I've always loved this area of sky, and I haven't really done it justice - it needs more exposures and a darker site, but it's my first widefield image of this region so it's a start.
Better version here:
Antares and the Rho Ophiuchus Nebula Complex
800px version attached.
Thanks for looking.