This object is quite close to the south celestial pole. I was impressed that the guiding worked well with a guide scope as it can be hard there.
An interesting area with both dust and bright stars illuminating it with a large amount of reflection nebula.
Taken at my dark site observatory last night with very good seeing. medium to light winds, kind of cool to cold 15C and some fast moving cloud at times that wrecked about 1.5 hours worth of RGB but I got enough. When I left it I figured I most likely would not get an image as I expected clouds to fly over and throw off the autoguider but it all worked. Sometimes things go your way!
3 hours, AP 140 and .75X reducer (155TCC), 10 minute exposures, PMX,
Lodestar guide camera, Vixen 95VMC guide scope:
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/...42188451/large regular size
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/...88451/original large size
Greg.