Antares Barambah

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 03-05-2009, 12:47 AM

I love this region!
This image is a stack of 18 @ 1min.
Taken with the Canon 50mm F1.8, riding on top of the ed80 using the Mini Tower.

leinad (Dan) · #2 03-05-2009, 03:06 AM

Real nice jeanette

Is that the nifty fifty lense ?

batema (Mark) · #3 03-05-2009, 04:39 AM

Lovely widefield Jeanette. How good is that lens for the price it costs. Well done.

Mark

alan meehan (Alan) · #4 03-05-2009, 06:46 AM

jjj,what a lovely shot there are just so many stars in this region well done

Dennis · #5 03-05-2009, 06:51 AM

Hi Jeanette

Wow – that is an astonishing image. What a lovely composition with amazing colours and detail. I can see you made excellent use of the dark skies and your time at Barambah!

Cheers

Dennis

peter_4059 (Peter) · #6 03-05-2009, 08:19 AM

Top shot JJJ. Looks like fireworks going off in the middle.

Peter

h0ughy (David) · #7 03-05-2009, 08:42 AM

thanks for showing me the extent of the red nebulosity JJJ - it will help me frame up at SPSP. great Image!!!!

prokyon (Werner Probst) · #8 03-05-2009, 08:52 AM

Wow, I did not know how long these dark clouds are. Nice shot!

It`s my favorite region too!

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #9 03-05-2009, 09:16 AM

Super detail in that shot Jeanette. I'm surprised at how much detail from such short subs. Must try this myself once I cure my polar alignment/drift alignment problems of course..

Dave

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #10 03-05-2009, 09:31 AM

Thanks for looking.
Yes it was the nifty fifty I used. I had to crop out a bit of coma from the left hand side, but you can't complain about that when you concider the price of the lens.

multiweb (Marc) · #11 03-05-2009, 10:29 AM

Another excellent widefield. Awesome.

spacezebra (Petra) · #12 03-05-2009, 10:34 AM

JJJ Stunning images!

Absolutely awesome!

Cheers Petra d.

astroron (Ron) · #13 03-05-2009, 10:47 AM

You made good use of your time at Barambah Jeanette .

"love it"

[1ponders] (Paul) · #14 03-05-2009, 11:22 AM

Wow! You were busy out there Jeanette. Fantastic shot. This one and your Crux are the highlights to my mind. Beautiful efforts.

RobF (Rob) · #15 03-05-2009, 11:28 AM

Have been looking foward to seeing this one (and the rest!) Jeanette. Beautiful work. Inspiring for wide-field wannabees too.

Tom Davis (Tom) · #16 03-05-2009, 02:01 PM

excellent FOV and dark nebulae!

Tom

Tilt (Michael) · #17 03-05-2009, 03:01 PM

Here I was thinking about forking out $2k for a Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L, the 'nifty fifty' looks to be a real winner!

Nice work Jeanette.

Michael

Robbie · #18 03-05-2009, 03:15 PM

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #19 03-05-2009, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tilt

Here I was thinking about forking out $2k for a Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L, the 'nifty fifty' looks to be a real winner!

Nice work Jeanette.

Michael

For the *vast* majority of shots, you don't need to fork out on a 1.4 or 1.2L variant. The 1.8 Mark II is very sharp. True, it's lightweight and build quality isn't grand and it doesn't have USM (uses ring USM from memory), but do you really need those features? f1.2 is very very very shallow DOF, you'll rarely use it imho. I have both the 1.8 and 1.4, and whilst the 1.4 produces nice bokeh, even its DOF is too shallow imho.

I guess for astro shots it might make a bit of difference in hindsight...but I still can't justify a ten fold price increase over the 1.8 unit...

Dave

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #20 03-05-2009, 05:07 PM

Beautiful detail and colour there Jeanette.

A very nice image indeed.
Well done.

Geoffro