Southern Cross treasures

[Antu]

Hi Folks,

Recently I managed to capture an image of the Southern Cross constellation along with famous Eta Carinae nebulae. The weather was very good which allowed to get quite a deep view of this area.

Kenko Skymemo, Canon 400D (Hutech mod.), Canon 50/1.4 @ 2.8, ISO800, 30 x 4 min

High-resolution image (1600x950, 1.1Mb) is right here: http://tinyurl.com/5o42q7

Thanks for looking !

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Fantastic widefield Yuri.
Doug

[dannat (Daniel)]

Antu, great shot - stars very sharp- what mount are you using?

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow, absolutely stunning. I love widefields like this. I want to do widefields like this!

Thanks for posting.

[bluescope]

Very nice fov Yuri ! The Coal Sack looks great and I think that's the Running Chicken Nebula ................ left of Eta is it ?

[skeltz (Rob)]

Great wide field yuri,they certainly help put everything into perspective.
And like mike i love wide fields too!

[Garyh]

Nice Shot Antu....
Those super dark skies you have help go deep!

[jase (Jason)]

Great composition Yuri. Wow, clusters are plentiful. I don't think I can recall I've seen the coal sack presented so aesthetically. Well done. Looking forward to your next post.

[Deeno]

Very nice indeed!!!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yes a very lovey image indeed Antu!

I really enjoyed looking at this image because it brought back fond memories from the mid 80's when I was a young man doing film photography, I photographed this field a few times with colour film and a 50mm lens, here is a poor scan of one of my old prints

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...24455/original

and one done with B&W film:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...93542/original

I was rather proud of these 24 years ago, now they are pretty lame really .

ah, yes...those were the days...

Thanks again

Mike

[Ric]

Wow, stunning image Antu. The colour and clarity is wonderful.

A very fine widefield. Your dark sky is awesome.

Cheers

[Dietmar]

whooops! that is a gorgeous sight!
greatly done, Yuri.
looking forward for your next one...

[Alchemy (Clive)]

What can i say that has not already been said. looks like youve produced a winner.





even this old man below liked it..... i think we can call him Oldmanmike now perhaps,

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

it brought back fond memories from ....when I was a young man .......
ah, yes...those were the days...



Mike

[erick (Eric)]

That really is marvellous, thanks very much and congratulations. It's mind-boggling to think there are so many stars in that direction!

Now the challenge - can anyone circle the Blue Planetary for me, please. I'm not sure which blue spot it is. I want to confirm why it's been such a challenge to locate. I did it once and it's about time I tried again.

[Antu]

Thanks guys for all your comments ! I really appreciate them. To obtain this image I used Kenko Skymemo portable mount: http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/kenko/skymemo/

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I photographed this field a few times with colour film and a 50mm lens, here is a poor scan of one of my old prints
Mike

Mike, your images are timeless ! I really love this region of the sky. Indeed it's very rich with star clusters, dark and emission nebulae. I think I was a bit lucky, the very good weather and dark sky cooperated with me.

[h0ughy (David)]

fantastic Image - well captured

[Robert_T]

Wow, what a spectacular image... you've gone so deep there's hardly any black bits left between the stars

[Tamtarn]

A wonderful widefield Yuri. Have to agree with Jase the first thing we noticed was the amazing capture of the coal sack.

[iceman (Mike)]

Many congratulations to Yuri for securing APOD Today with this absolutely fantastic image.

Well done!

[gregbradley]

Wonderful image Yuri.

Everything done just right.

Greg.