Hi all,
I took a few wide field pics of different Milky Way regions during SPSP as an adjunct to the telescope imaging.
The first two were taken through a Samyang 135mm lens and the last through a Pentax 16-50 zoom. All 3 were taken with an astro-modded Pentax K-5iis DSLR tracked (but unguided) on a 38 year old Vixen Super Polaris mount.
The first image is the well known region spanning the border of Sagittarius and Serpens and it includes M16, M17 and M24 along with IC 1284 & a number of other HII regions, clusters & dark nebulae. Hi res here:
Astrobin Sagittarius to Serpens
The second image is a 2-panel mosaic covering a rich region of the Scorpius Milky Way, containing the Cat's Paw & Lobster Nebulae, M6 & M7 open star-clusters and the more obscure Sh2-15 towards the lower left. Hi-res:
Astrobin Scorpius Milky Way
The last one is region I'm sure you'll al recognise. Unfortunately my Pentax 16-50 is no Sigma Art and suffers from pretty extensive coma (amongst other problems). Whilst I cropped out the worst of it there is still a fair bit so not worth linking a hi-res version. I captured this on my first night at SPSP after the clouds had finally gone and I'd polar aligned both mounts & I didn't have the energy to do anything more serious.
Comments/critiques welcome as always.
Pete.
