Extreme widefield Taurus

[portedGoblin]

Hi

I feel I making progress although I am very new at this. This one turned out ok. Its got a gradient that I could not remove due to clouds/fog.

It has taken some time to get good settings for the shots. Usually I overexpose the frames and when I stack them it gets much blown out. Same is true for this one I think but its better then before.

This was taken with a Nikon D600 on a tripod with a 50mm f/1.4 lens. ISO1000 and f/3.5 with 45x5sec exposure. It also has darks and bias but I might as well not bother at these settings as those images are pitch black.

The lens has terrible vignetting at 1.4 and stars are bat shaped in the corners. At f/3.5 its better though next time I will try f/4.

DSS and PixInsight.

http://www.astrobin.com/26785/

Thanks for looking, any comments are welcome!

[Stevp]

Thats a really good image. I've just started to play about more with my Canon eos 600 and would be thrilled to get something like this.

[Daniel-K]

loving the dark dust lane you have captures well done

[JamesF]

Very nice. I want to do a similar shot, but I'm going to wait until Jupiter is out of the way. It may be a fair wait

James

[portedGoblin]

I am waiting for Orion to get higher in the sky myself, its very close to the horizon for me up here at 60°N and I have had mostly clear skies at evenings and not later in the nights.

[VigdisVZ]

I love these! Great job! Cant wait to see what you can do when you order your planned NEQ-6.

[portedGoblin]

I got the NEQ6 yesterday I'm trying to figure it out now. I will take it out tomorrow and see if I can align the polarscope etc during the day and maybe it will even be clear tomorrow night also!

[stellawolf]

Great image well done

[VigdisVZ]

I got the NEQ6 yesterday I'm trying to figure it out now. I will take it out tomorrow and see if I can align the polarscope etc during the day and maybe it will even be clear tomorrow night also!

Congratulations!

Just be VERY careful with the altitude bolts, the bend easy as butter. I just had my mod kit installed.

[sologuitarist61]

Great image - well done, and yes, stopping down the lens will help with the corners but that is a cracking image even so

[scoobee]

loving the image,