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Old 21-06-2012, 02:13 AM
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MrB (Simon)
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60Da & Astrotrac First Light

Hi everyone.

A few months ago, Rebecca(my girlfriend) and I planned a trip to her family's farm just a tad south of Nannup WA and this gave me the chance to try out my new gear.
Over the three nights I had some small success but due to cloud, fog, rain, dew and equipment failure, I never really got to image as much as I would have liked, but I did get a few shot's that I thought I would share.

All images are single un-guided exposures and no flats, darks or bias frames, so are noisy and not as deep as I would have liked.
Also my processing skills are... well.... non-existent, so the images have only had levels, brightness and saturation adjustments in PS.
All images are full-frame.
I plan to try the trial version of PixInsight on these.

Image details:
Canon 60Da @ 1600 ISO with prime manual focus lenses.
#1 Rho Oph 3min 105mm @ f5.6
#2 Scorpius 10min 35mm @ f8
#3 LMC, SMC & Aurora 7.5mins 50mm @ f4
#4 Eta Car Neb 5min 105mm @ f5.6
#5 Crux + Eta Car Neb 5min 50mm @ f4
#6 Galactic centre 7.5min 35mm @ f?

Hope you enjoy, comments and critique welcome
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