Hi all
On Saturday night, I headed out to the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club for the first time since January, to do some social observing with friends, and some widefield photography away from home.
The image below is the outcome from the night – a widefield Milkyway image taken with my Canon 350D and 28mm f/2.8 lens, piggybacked on my ED80/EQ6.
Given it was my first image in so long, I’m quite happy with how it turned out. Drift aligning went smoothly and quickly, I didn’t forget to take anything, and generally it all went as well as I could’ve hoped. I just had to remember how to process as well!
Unfortunately the 28mm lens isn't a good performer, and I didn't stop it down far enough to get rid of the large amounts of field curvature/coma in the corners (some of it is cropped out but there's still heaps).
A small 700px wide version is attached (to get it under 200kb). You can read more and view a 1200px wide less compressed version here:
The Milkyway from Mangrove Mountain Pony Club
Thanks for looking.