Corona Australis Region

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Rather than impatiently post a pic after one night's run, I thought I'd "save" subs over a few nights for a slightly deeper piccy. Can't do it for comets, but for deep sky it seems like a plan.

This is my rendition of the Corona Australis region. A very pretty area of sky, it seems to have everything - A globular cluster NGC6723, some blue reflection nebula NGC6726, IC4812, a nebula that looks like a comet NGC6729 and dark nebula that blocks starlight.

Skywatcher BD ED100 at F7.2 with Orion 0.8x focal reducer, 347 x 1 minute subs unguided taken over 5 nights, HEQ5 pro, Pentax K-5.

Bigger at http://astrob.in/107917/0/

Didn't I have some trash running through the frames! I caught several satellites, an aircraft and an asteroid 426 Hippo!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Absolutely superb Kevin!

Awesome stuff

Cheers
Jo

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice work, Kevin! This is a great area of the sky.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks Jo and Rick!

It is a cool place to explore. I first imaged this region back in the 1990's with an 8" f8.8 newt and didn't do as well as this little 4" refractor.

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Came up really well Kevin! Love the bigger size image.
Ted

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Good one Kevin!

Good balance, didn't kill the globular.

Cheers,

Justin.

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Very nice, I like the framing.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks Ted. I'm slowly working on image quality, amongst other things so hopefully the bigger ones will be best.

Thanks Justin. I don't believe in killing globulars. I've seen a few pics of this region with the core of 6723 burned out, which ruins it IMO.

Thanks Werner. The focal reducer helped with that I think also.