Wide Field Cygnus Area 60mm lens

[ultranova]

Hi Every one, for a change I had a good night last night Thought I would try

a wide field on the Cygnus region as there's so much going on in that region.

I am happy with the way it came out.

This was taken on my dual rig my other Camera I was using was the modified

Canon 1100d which was busy capturing The North American Nebula.

Taken with Taken with 8HYL ccd at -20, 9 x10 minute subs using a canon 60mm macro lens

at 60mm on the Canon 1100d it would be around 96mm due to the 1.6x crop factor,

but due to the large chip on the 8HQYL it worked out about 60mm.

processed in PI and PE.

Paul

A bigger version can be seen here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kazastrophotos/8970686538/sizes/k/in/photostream/

[nightvision]

That's great, amazing what you can do with a camera lens and CCD, even more amazing is that you did in mid-summer! Where you out late?

[Scott]

really nice Paul. wide fields are def my favourites.. I'm guessing he was out early (morn) Tony

[ultranova]

Thanks Guys, yes I wass up until around 1:45 ish,

then some couds came from no where and ended play,

Just as well, as I was very tired.

Paul

[Scott]

Yeah, it's hard when you can't even get started til 11.30-12.00. Still, with this glorious weather we've been having I for one won't be complaining

[Mark72]

Nice wide field Paul, looks great.

Mark

[fwm891]

Superb images Paul, love these wide fields with lots and lots of star fields

[ultranova]

Thanks Mark, Francis, The hardest thing about it was getting a good

focus and pointing it in the right location, which proved quite time consuming.

Paul

[sulaco]

First class stuff, i'm also based in essex in colchester and it was my target last night, I would love to get as fine a detail as you achieved in those. Take a look in Widefield post and you'll see my effort.

[laser_jock99]

Great Cygnus image- as you say there's a lot going on there.

[Coco]

Excellent wide field..

I thought the sensor from the QHY8/QHY8L & SX M25C was from the same as the old Nikon D70? so the crop should be near the same x1.5?? Sony ICX453.

Also found in the noisy D40 & D50 ( warm not cooled of course )

[Epicycle]

Great wide field shots!

[ultranova]

Thanks every one for your kind comments..

Excellent wide field..

I thought the sensor from the QHY8/QHY8L & SX M25C was from the same as the old Nikon D70? so the crop should be near the same x1.5?? Sony ICX453.

Also found in the noisy D40 & D50 ( warm not cooled of course )

I just checked Guy your correct, for some reason i was thinking that a full frame SLR was 25mm, doh its 35mm

Me bad well spotted

Paul.

[Auntystatic]

Great shots indeed, the qhy8l and the canon 1100d have for all intents and purposes the same physical sensor size, the sony aps-c size chips are the same as nikons at 1.7x crop factor.

[Coco]

I think its 1.5x as apposed to Canons 1.6x

[Gina]

Very nice indeed I like widefield with lenses too. I get set up by something like midnight or so and leave it all running while I go to bed. I seem to end up getting to bed about 12:30 - 1am I like to check it's working properly before going to bed.

[farunj]

Wow! That's spectacular!

[Daniel-K]

belter wide field awesome

[JamesF]

Very nice indeed.

James