The Swirling Dust And Gas Clouds of Our Galaxy

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

I've done a reprocess of an image I got back in May, I'm really happy with it, I reckon its one of the best wide fields I've done so far.

Camera Sony SLT-A99V, with 50mm lens.

100x2min subs, ISO 800.

I had to do a bit of a crop as the edges weren't real pretty.

Please check out the large version here.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers
Jo

PS The small version is real bad.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah nice one, there looks to be a slight magenta fringing/hue so might be worth trying to reduce or eliminate that but still a great result.

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very cool widefield. Very sharp and nice colors.

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Very nice...congrats.

Leo

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thanks a lot guys, Mike, yeah I was running the lens at f2 so there is a bit of CA and I always seem to have my pictures a bit to magenta, I'll see what I can do to fix if up.

Cheers
Jo

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice image, Jo! The camera seems quite sensitive to Ha.

[gregbradley]

That looks great.

Greg.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice image, Jo! The camera seems quite sensitive to Ha.

Thanks, yeah I borrowed a mates camera for the night and I'm glad I did, I got a lot more Nebulosity than I usually get with the GX1.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That looks great.

Greg.

Thanks Greg.

Jo

[Ross G]

Nice colour and detail Jo.

The Sony works well.

Ross.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Well done Jo looks great!

Originally Posted by nebulosity.

PS The small version is real bad.

Astrobin to the rescue!!

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Jo, that lens has little distortion so astrometry.net solved the image in a couple of seconds. Seriously downsampled.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thanks Ross and Rod,

Thanks Andrew, I didn't know astrometry.net could do that

Jo