Early Antares Region

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Bought a side by side plate to enable the use of the Sony A7s with my Canon 200mm F2.8 lens and autoguider, wow what a combo!

This is a stack of 15 shots of 3 minutes. At this early stage I hadn't worked out what was causing the weird star aberrations, it turned out to be a dodgy UV protective filter I'd left on my precious.

Can't wait to image later in the year when it's not just above the horizon at 4.00am.

Flickr version

[Andy01 (Andy)]

That's got to be one of my favourite regions of the sky - well done on the early capture, looking forward to the next version, well done Simmo

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

M4 looks gorgeous and just the right colour for a 12 billion year old globular.

[RickS (Rick)]

Looks very promising, Simon! Rho Ophiuchus never gets old