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Old 29-08-2011, 10:30 PM
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Barnard Loop

Here's one I took at BSG on Thursday night with a QHY8 and a SMC Pentax-M 100mm lens two stops down.

There's a bigger field here [4.3MB | 2128px wide]
and a smaller version here [2.5MB | 1600px wide]

First night was unsuccessful as the fog rolled in around 3:00am but the second night stayed clear and relatively dry way past sunrise so I managed 45x180s on it.

Still fairly low but the skies were pretty dark pointing north and I really wanted to have a crack at it so I'll make sure I reshoot it at the zenith when it's the season. Probably with something a tad wider too.

This shot had a lot of gradients to deal with due to low altitude and I'm surprised it still turned out sort of alright.
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