All,
My first target at Snake Valley.
I was tempted to move to ten minute exposures but wasn't game at the time, so, opted for 5 minute exposures and *gasp, shock, horror* ISO-800. I won't be doing that again, and, indeed didn't for the rest of the star party.
I will re-do this once the STL-11000M arrives, or, if I get a chance to image before then, I will go at it with 10-minute exposures to try and bring out the stellar nurseries.
Read and view
here.
Comments, critique, etc., welcome.
Note: I fumbled my way in the dark and didn't put the cotton thread on orthogonally and have therefore ended up with the diffraction spikes as is. I rotated the image in Photoshop but it ended up being over 4-degrees out and as such too much of the image would have had to have been cropped. I just left them.
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