Had a ball last night despite the moon and made an all nighter, bed at 5:00am. Yay!
Tested my new SMC Pentax-M 150mm F3:5 lens. Got plenty of data on the cone nebula. Huge field (7x5 degrees). When it went down I moved to Eta and got a few panels around it towards the southern cross.
Very busy field (including death ray from the blazing moon). Rejected as much as I could by offsetting but it was fierce. Looks kind of cool actually like lighting the stage.
Things todo: sort out the horrendous focal plane tilt I got. I must have done something terribly wrong when attaching the lens as the bottom left stars look like drops but given the scarce opportunities to image I couldn't care less and still went on. Plenty of rainy days coming for shimming.
At that image scale and resolution I can live with it and it still makes for a pretty view the idea being to highlight all the well known objects between Carina and Crux.
Big one
here and I have a nice plate solve
here too.
Thanks for looking.
