Went to Kulnura on Saturday night, sky was clear, transparency was great so before doing some eyepiece testing I decided to do some widefield shots on the EQ platform.
Sony DSCP100 on the EQ platform, 10 x 30s exposures @ ISO400, aligned and stacked in Registar, processed in Photoshop.
The milkyway was right overhead and I couldn't position the tripod to get the camera pointing directly up! How annoying! So it's slightly off-centre.
The first shot is more lightly processed, and includes the frame that a plane decided to go through. The second shot is more heavily processed, and I excluded the frame containing the plane, so it's 9 shots stacked instead of 10.
I'm still working on a fullsize version, but here are the websized ones.
Thanks guys, hopefully i'll get time to do the bigger version in the next few days and I'll add some constellation lines again (if I can work out the boundaries!). With so many stars, it's hard to recognise
Hey very nice Mike!! Be interesting to see what a couple of dark frames subtracts would do to it. I'm sure it would help you pull in more detail... Try it, if you haven't already.
Cheers
