The Chained Princess

[PhilM]

With not much imaging or observing going on thought I'd stick this up. Andromeda and Triangulum with M31 and M33

Canon 350d (unmodded at the time), standard 18-55 zoom

6 x 10 minutes under very dark skies.

Processing in Iris and photoshop.

Phil.

[blinky]

Lovely widefield, 10min subs :shock: You must live in the middle of nowhere!

[steppenwolf]

Well, I'm glad you did post, it's a lovely widefield image

[Beyond_Vision]

An absolutely superb widefield Phil, where abouts were you to get skies like that and what mount did you use? I can also see the cluster NGC752 to the middle left of frame.

Regards

Kevin

[CELESCOPE]

Thats a lovely wide field image Phil. super dark sky wonderful detail , and one to be proud of , thanks for posting

Rog

[Astroman]

You have to like that one. Wonderful.

[Andrew*]

That's the best widefield I've seen in some time 8)

Absolutely love it. And I'm jealous you got skies that good!

Andrew

[Grant]

That's an amazing image! Beautiful, fantastic work

[PhilM]

Cheers The only problem with widefields is they tend to get a bit chunky when they're compressed for the web (any ideas?)

Nicely spotted Kevin. NGC752 was a splendid and bright naked eye object 8) (it's listed at mag 5.7).

The image was taken in Provence at Les Granges. I stayed for 10 nights and had 8 clear nights but the girlfriend had me out on long hikes during daylight so you can imagine how knackered I was! Not only is it extremely dark there but on a number of the nights transparency and seeing were particularly good - the structure in the milky way was incredible - amazing granularity to it. The weirdist thing was observing under clear skies but being able to see flashes of lightning way off in the distance. My mid-week digs in Bristol are a bit like something out the Young Ones so the girlfriend is promising to get this printed in poster size to remind me of the trip. Unfortunately I am spoiled forever as I just can not get used to my Hampshire skies (when I can see them) - even though I can get mag 5.5 in some directions when it's good.

Phil.

The camera was piggy backed on an LX200, no guiding. North is straight up in the image. I took some nice sharp widefields of the milky way through cygnus, they're great for spotting the Barnard's, but as the camera was unmodded the nebulae are a bit dull.

If anyone ever fancies an SGL trip over there please let me know... Some sketches done with his Televue Genesis and 20" dob are in the sketching forum.

[barkis]

Now that is what I call looking into deep space.

That is a cracker of a wide field shot Phil. There is so much in there, and the real bonus of these sort of images,

are their educational value.

Great stuff.

Ron.

[Beyond_Vision]

Phil, I am just down the road from you to the south of Gloucester if you get astro withdrawal fever midweek feel free to pop in

Regards

Kevin

[PhilM]

Phil, I am just down the road from you to the south of Gloucester if you get astro withdrawal fever midweek feel free to pop in

Thanks Kevin. That would be really great. Let's hope the weather improves soon.

Phil.

[dogfish]

Lovely widefield. Thanks for posting.

I'd love a trip to somewhere dark in France. It would be my first choice of astro destination, but it's so far from Glasgow, sniff.

Martin

[Starflyer]

Stunning widefield

I'd love a trip to somewhere dark in France. It would be my first choice of astro destination, but it's so far from Glasgow, sniff.

You could always stop half way for a night and then we could share the rest of the drive

Cheers,

Ian

[saturn5]

Nothing beats a superb widefield.

[Sam]

That's an awesome wide field!

[Ant]

It's an amazing Image.

Love the three objects in the (rather large) FOV.

I'm really taken by that shot! Nice one...

Ant

[Sam Bo]

Thats a beautiful image Phil...i almost got lost in it!