Given last new moon week-end cloud coverage I got really frustrated and decided to pick my night rather than the other way round, so I did a mid-week trip to Wiruna for one perfect night. It was much needed, overdue and I loved it
Bit lonely but for the two occasional wallabies and the regular possum. The moon set at about 12:30am and everything froze up very fast.
I pretty much shot 1-2h of anything bright enough I knew where to find easily to test my barlowed newt. I did M8, M20, M16, NGC2070, M42. Just posting what I've processed so far. M8 turned out nice, there's a higher res shot at:
http://www.multiweb.com.au/astro/M8x2_nf.jpg [1.2MB]
M20's bit grainy (more data required). I chose to shoot a lot more on M16 as it was going down fast. Tarentula was a bit low to shoot at. But I was happy to image anything at last. Will post a bit more when I've processed the rest. Enjoy the shots.
PS: Big thanks to Peter Ward helping me sorting out some tracking problems.
