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Originally Posted by Saturnine
G'day Adam
The large version looks very impressive, it is such a beautiful area with the reflection and emission nebula, dark dust lanes and a glob or 3 to boot. The combination of the lens and camera give a great field of view.
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Hi Jeff
Thanks very much. Indeed there's so much going on here, one could spend months picking out cool areas to focus on. Definitely a favourite part of the sky for me!
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Originally Posted by Mickoid
Superb Adam, looks like you may have posted it in the wrong section of the forum  . Love the framing and thinking outside the box in using gear to capture this widefield in the one frame. Colours are good, sharpness and detail is all there, well done!  |
Ha, cheers Michael. Not going into that part of the forum for a while. Still a beginner and know exactly where my images are failing, I don't need to be reminded
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Originally Posted by Startrek
Adam,
Fantastic wide field image of a region full of interesting celestial treats
I agree , should have been posted in Deep Space section
Well done !!!
Sometimes imaging at 1000mm or longer can be frustrating when seeing and transparency are poor ( captured 2 nights ( 4 hours worth ) on the Lobster Nebula where conditions were poor and didn’t even bother to finish processing the data as the image was horrible, no fine detail , noisy and bloated stars etc....)
Maybe I should get a wide field set up as a back up ( interchange ) You can certainly get away with more using a wide field rig and still produce a great image like yours ......
Cheers
Martin
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HI Martin
Yes, widefield is a lot of fun. Definitely less demanding, but funnily enough, harder to balance in my opinion. I had some strange RA errors that I put down to bad balancing (fixed during the night). That said, sometimes it's great to see context, which tells a story. I want to reshoot this target and capture more of the mily-way proper, so perhaps two shot vertical panorama next time to include the galaxy. You can do the same with long focal length gear but boy it'd take you a while
Plus, coming from terrestrial photography, I've built up a collection of Canon lenses, so it seems a waste to not put them to use for wide astro work.
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Originally Posted by Anth10
Adam,
Very captivating image- really enjoy the vast expanses of space and the colour from this region is a real eye catcher. I am impressed with the capture and the chance to see the scale between the two areas-
Thanks for sharing.
Anth
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Hi Anth. Thanks very much. Yes, scale and context was the goal here, so I'm really pleased that came through for you