rho,coin and cat's paw

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

Try to push my Eq5 guiding to 10mins subs under dark sky. Went to the Blue Mountain last weekend and captured these. Wasted an hour( still struggle with polar alignment sometimes) therefore only managed 3 objects. Findng a guide star can be difficult too Guiding on the Cats paw was a bit off but quite happy overall.
Higher res can be seen here:
here

Thanks for looking

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

These are lovely images Vincent, got any more info on how they where taken?

your pics are really coming on in leaps and bounds

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

These are lovely images Vincent, got any more info on how they where taken?

Canon 400d modified ISO 800
rho: 50mm f1.8 lens at f2.8, 7x3mins
NGC253: ED80 prime focus, 2x10mins, heavily cropped
Cat's paw: ED80 prime focus, 3x10mins

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great shots, Vinnie

[Hagar (Doug)]

Nice triplet Vincent. Looks like you are having a bit of a problem with guiding or curvature but all up focus and colour look very good and without this minor problem you would have 3 real rippers. I would expect it to be a field curvature problem which is normal with the ED80 without a flattener.
Well done.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Missed this one Vincent - oops!
3 goodies - my favourite has got to be the Antares/Rho region...beautiful colours and processing.
Very nice
Doug

[Lester]

Very nice collection there Vincent.