LMC and Eta from the Pony Club.

[RB (Andrew)]

This was shot last week at the Pony Club.
I thought I'd do a little widefield imaging but unfortunately I didn't keep an eye on the dew and hadn't hooked up a dew starp so a lot of the frames were ruined, I do tend to get too distracted socialising with the other attendees now and then.

This was a 22 min (11 x 2min) exposure at ISO 800 using the 20Da shot at 32mm, f/2.8 on an EM200 mount.

I was hoping to use more exposures but what can ya do huh?
Next time I'll have to pay more attention LOL.

Thanks for looking and comments/critique most welcome.

[h0ughy (David)]

What a horrible grainly noisy shot with blotches.

oh wait i will put my glasses on now - holy cow!!

nice work Mr "they can smell me coming" RB

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice one RB, lovely widefield.

[madwayne (Wayne)]

An absolute corker Andrew, thanks for sharing.

Regards
Wayne

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Great one Andrew

[RB (Andrew)]

Thanks guys glad you enjoyed.
I was hoping to get it a little bit better but there's always next time.

LOL Mr Hough, you're in big trouble !

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

That a big gulp of sky there Andrew - very nice stuff.
Doug

[winensky]

Huge!! field. A ripper. The Bar stands right out inthe LMC. Beautiful work.

[peeb61 (Paul)]

I see wide fields are back in fashion!
And what an image to keep the fad going!

Just love it Rob, you can certainly gaze in and have a good look around.

Paul

[atalas]

Hi Andrew

Wonderful field ! congrats.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Andrew,

Beautiful shot, mate.

The LMC is a corker!

You didn't apply a magenta photo filter in Photoshop to this image?

Regards,
Humayun

[Matty P (Matt)]

Lovely image Andrew. Nicely framed.

Well done

[Deeno]

Pretty cool RB. Been looking forward to this one
Feeling inspired in having another go.
I'll happily take credit for this one as well
Took your bloody time posting it!

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Andrew. The LMC looks great out on it's own pointing at EtaC. Well done.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

That a big gulp of sky there Andrew - very nice stuff.
Doug

Yeah Doug, at 32mm it certainly is a large chunk of sky captured.

Originally Posted by winensky

Huge!! field. A ripper. The Bar stands right out inthe LMC. Beautiful work.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Originally Posted by peeb61

I see wide fields are back in fashion!
And what an image to keep the fad going!

Just love it Rob, you can certainly gaze in and have a good look around.

Paul

Thanks Paul, yes I decided to keep it as simple as possible since I didn't plan on taking too much equipment out to the pony club with me so widefields were the order of the night.
I did a quick drift alignment with the short tube 80 and then took the scope off and attached the camera and lens on the mount instead, just tracking away and controlling the camera with the TC-80N3 timer inc. ICNR.
I just wish I had kept an eye on the dew.

Originally Posted by atalas

Hi Andrew

Wonderful field ! congrats.

G'day Louie, thank you so much.

Originally Posted by Octane

Andrew,

Beautiful shot, mate.

The LMC is a corker!

You didn't apply a magenta photo filter in Photoshop to this image?

Regards,
Humayun

Nah for some reason my magenta filter has been deleted in CS3.
Hope to get it back with CS4 when I upgrade.

Originally Posted by Matty P

Lovely image Andrew. Nicely framed.

Well done

Many thanks Matt !

Originally Posted by Deeno

Pretty cool RB. Been looking forward to this one
Feeling inspired in having another go.
I'll happily take credit for this one as well
Took your bloody time posting it!

It took so long because I was still trying to recover from the all-nighter Deeno, I'm not a spring chicken yah know..... LOL
I'll credit you with distracting me all night.

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very nice Andrew. The LMC looks great out on it's own pointing at EtaC. Well done.

Thanks Doug, I was mucking around trying to frame it so it would look somewhat balanced and was happy with this orientation.
Cheers.