The Veil complex

[madjohn]

Ok had a chance to work on some data I took on Monday night, conditions were not good (whats new?) but this widefield shot of the entire veil complex in Cygnus has come out really well.

Taken using my Miniborg 45ED (yes 45mm objective!) and modded 450D.

14 X 5min subs at ISO 800

[Euan]

That's really nice, what a great field of view so many big targets to go for just now

I would have every size of Borg if I funds permitted

[madjohn]

Yes I wanted the largest field of view without using a camera lens fitted with an iris to avoid the diffraction spikes or diffraction artifacts that they cause.

The Miniborg ED45 fitted with the focal reducer has a focal length of 288mm!

[BernieD]

very nice picture John!

[ollypenrice]

It is indeed very nice.

BTW, I'm going to experiment with a front aperture mask for stopping down camera lenses. Some results I saw on a Dutch forum lookd promising.

Olly

[twotter]

That's a lovely image

[madjohn]

Hi Olly, I have wondered if making my own perfectly circular masks and fitting them over the front of the camera lense would achieve the result of no diffraction artifacts, I'll look into these dutch guys results thanks for the heads up, be a swine if I could of saved a lot of money doing that instead of buying the Miniborg!

[prokyon]

Very nice John! Colours, details and stars.

Cheers

Werner

[R Fisher]

Nice image,

Did very well to get that lot on one frame !