Another first widefield - Nikon D40/18-55ED

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

My first widefield shot through my Nikon D40. Mounted on a poorly-aligned EQ5 I think it came out OK. I didn't notice the Foxtel dish until afterwards, but I kind of like it

Cheers
Chris

[iceman (Mike)]

Well done Chris, that's an excellent first attempt! Great to see everyone with shiny new cameras putting them to good use.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Thanks Mike

It's a little artefacted because of the compression required to keep a 1024x768 version of the image small enough to post. Time to get the mount properly aligned and do some more!

Cheers
Chris

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow that's beautiful Chris !

I really like it.

[ving (David)]

nice one chris!

you need to set the date properly on your camera tho... its not 15.5.07
(unless the opanda iexif is not telling teh truth that is)

i like the dish in there too... looks like youare in a space craft

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by ving

nice one chris!

you need to set the date properly on your camera tho... its not 15.5.07
(unless the opanda iexif is not telling teh truth that is)

It was probably taken around the time of the blackout ving so there was a glitch.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by ving

nice one chris!

you need to set the date properly on your camera tho... its not 15.5.07
(unless the opanda iexif is not telling teh truth that is)

i like the dish in there too... looks like youare in a space craft

Hmm.. thanks for pointing that out David. Camera is now updated with the correct time & date!

Cheers
Chris

[h0ughy (David)]

nice one - sorta like ET phone homeish - btw was it slightly hazy when you took it, looks like some high cloud in the crux area?

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

nice one - sorta like ET phone homeish - btw was it slightly hazy when you took it, looks like some high cloud in the crux area?

hehe.. "Elllliotttt....phhhhonne hooooome....." LOL!

Yes, it was pretty hazy overhead, but I've also softened it a tiny bit as well because the hi-resolution version looks better as my desktop wallpaper that way I did muck around with the white point threshold, so that also brought out the Milky Way a tad more - and the de-focusing probably softened the Coal Sack a little too much, but what the hey!

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by Rocket Boy

Wow that's beautiful Chris !

I really like it.

Thanks Andrew

[jase (Jason)]

Good stuff. I like the framing. Like what the others have said - the dish add an extra dimension, doing you own form of radio astronomy such as decoding the echos from the noisy galaxy NGC5128 at 10.7Ghz.

I also like the little halos around the stars, it gives the images an Akira Fuji feel. Well done!

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by jase

Good stuff. I like the framing. Like what the others have said - the dish add an extra dimension, doing you own form of radio astronomy such as decoding the echos from the noisy galaxy NGC5128 at 10.7Ghz.

I also like the little halos around the stars, it gives the images an Akira Fuji feel. Well done!

Coming from you, I thank you Jase.