Widefield 300d example

[xelasnave]

This is for Gav.(and anyone thinking of getting stated with no fuss) This was a 300d standard lens, piggy back on a 70 mm guide on a eq5 mount. The polar align was good and I didnt touch the mount my point is you are in for some fun mate

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

arhh alex i always liked your widefield shots. very nice.

[sejanus (Gavin)]

thats fantastic mate. how long/many exopsures at what iso do you remember?

cheers

[xelasnave]

Thank you Eric, feel guilty posting an old one its all probably different up there now
Gav I was up al night 5 nights and captured many all isos, this was 1730 secs at 200 iso I recall may have stacked others too get this..had so many files, cropped sections, different processing , etc such I can not tell you truthfully exactly how I arrived at this ..it was one I worked up at 600 pixies to post on forums.
With your cameras you may be really surprised the detail you get on blow ups equating to a longer f/l back it off when (if) resolution really suffers..I recon you may just figure out stuff we have not thought of yet ...hey nice backdrop for wedding shots
alex

[RB (Andrew)]

Ah yes what a beauty that is Alex.

Excellent.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

C'mon Alex, that's the one the hubble took when it was taking off years ago and they were testing the cameras

[Lester]

Great shot Alex.

[tornado33]

Im so jeleous of your brilliant dark skies to obtain such a fantastic image. The detail is astounding. What was the image setting?
Thanks
Scott

[xelasnave]

Thank you very much for all the encouragement.
Setting I presume you mean b/w balance iif so on auto...maybe
and I think this was more like 50 minutes at 200 iso...as I said I have been playing with them and files have breed like rabbits ... I will post some others only to encourage others who may be thinking of having a go not to wait until they get a flash scope.. I recon I could do this using a $250 eq scope and mount ..I whatched the guide star in the 70mm guide scope on and off during captures and it wandered a fair bit really without really showing up as star trails... the same wander if only using 400fl would have been disaster.
Here are some crops from larger widefields .
alex

[xelasnave]

er missed em

[xelasnave]

Phone is playing up its slow going one at a time only had a few but another time
alex