[trent_julie]

Here is our latest attempt at a wide field of Crux, taken at the South Pacific Star Party near Mudgee, NSW.

We tried to bring out the star colours and the dark dust lanes in the Milky Way near the Coalsack.

Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. We have found it fairly difficult to find a good balance between nebulosity and star brightness, so any tips on how to get the best out of this region of the sky would be appreciated!

Cheers,
Trent and Julie.

Details as follows;
Canon 1000d
Autoguided on a HEQ5 Mount
Exposure 28 x 240sec @ ISO 800
Stacked in DSS
Processed in CS3