Crux/Carina widefield attempt

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,

I was camping down near Mt Barney (Qld/NSW border) last weekend, and had clear dark-ish skies, at least relative to Brisbane. I had a Pentax 50mm f/1.4 lens on loan from a friend, so decided to try a widefield with the Coal Sack and Eta Carinae. This was 11 x 20 sec exposures using a tripod-mounted K100D (i.e. no tracking), stacked in DSS. The result is very ordinary compared to most of the images posted here, but I don't have many opportunities to post in the Deep Space forum so here it is...

Cheers,
Stephen

[renormalised (Carl)]

Pretty good attempt...well done

[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

Well Done Stephen

I'll tihnk you'll find that nearly every person on this deep sky forum took their first astroimages this way (and many including mine - werent as good as this)

Well Done

Mark Bolton

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

LOL ditto to what Mark said.
Nicely done considering the conditions.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks for the comments Carl, Mark and Nettie. As I said it's not a very good image, but it was fun getting out there and capturing it. My aim was to get the Coal Sack, and so getting Eta Carinae and all those open clusters was a bonus.

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Stephen

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very cool result on a fixed tripod.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Very cool result on a fixed tripod.

Thanks Marc!

Cheers,
Stephen