TeaPot and the centre of Milky Way

[IanP]

TeaPot, the centre of Milky Way and 8 Messier objects:
M7, M8, M20, M22, M28, M54, M69 &M70

[hotspur (Chris)]

Great image-very well done,a useful educational image-great to see,It would be good see more astro images along these lines that people can enjoy and find useful.

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 Love the framing. Very good. Great idea.

[IanP]

Thanks Marc & Chris, appreciate your comments !!!

[Elio]

You forgot M21 (near M20), 9 Messier there
but a beatifull wide field... what did you use for this image?
At corners, stars goes away

[IanP]

Hi Elio, Thanks.
I used a crappy lens – 17-200mm, and what I didn’t notice is that when it is used in a vertical position with each shot the zoom ring moved slightly, so by the time I collected 30 images the difference between the first and the last was more than I’d say 15%.
PixInsight could hardly work this out, but because the centre of the frame look OK I didn’t worry about the corners.
Also, thanks for pointing out the 9th Messier …

[Ross G]

Nice looking widefield Ian.

Good reference for all those objects.


Ross.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Good stuff Ian!

Great idea pointing out the tea pot, sometimes it's easy to get lost in these shots and this sure helps.

Cheers,

Justin.