Wide Field Milky Way in Sagittarius

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Hey folks, I put my Canon 1000d and my nifty 50mm lens on my mount for a change. Took about two hours of this centred on M8/M20.
Cosmic Dust!!
Cheers
Graham

[raymo]

Great composition, very nice.
raymo

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Thanks Raymo, forgot to mention was 1600ISO at 300 secs each. Unmodified Canon 1000D. Great camera really. Keeps relatively cool compared to the 5D..

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Wonderful image Graham.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Very pretty.
-Cam

[astronobob (Bob)]

Nice one Graham dig them golden colors too

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Yes... verynice Graham

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Thanks chaps, would love to get more as the Milky way extends right over my house this time of year. But its sodding raining and foggy down here now

[JZ (Ross)]

Hi Graham,

Lovely shot!
Just curious, I have a 1000D too, but what was the lens you used and what F stop? I have the 18 - 55 zoom but am not very happy with it.

Cheers,
Ross...

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Hi JZ it was the nifty fifty plastic fantastic cheapo 50mm lens- I will have to check the f stop- I didn't note it down but it is still set up on the occasion when the cloud deck lifts!!

[ThunderStorm (Alan)]

What tripod mount did you use with your DSLR?
You did not use telescope to connect to?

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Hi, it was mounted on the underside of my plate for my PMX mount so it was a rather large mount for a camera!- just the camera and lens - no telescope.

[200f4 (Geoff)]

Damn another good idea to try out next fine night..

[dutch2 (Ingrid)]

Great shot, well done.