50mm widefield Cygnus/North American Nebula

[VigdisVZ]

Just a quick and dirty trial run of my new Nikon D800. 14 lights, 30 seconds each at ISO 3200. 50mm 1.4 lens stopped down to F/4. NEQ-6 mount. Stacked in DSS, and a quick finish in PS.

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Looking very good, especially for such a short run. The corners are pretty decent at f4.

I know there is no 'right' orientation but I want to rotate it 180 degrees for some reason.

[VigdisVZ]

Thanks. 

I could proably have cropped out the vignetting, but I decided to leave them as it was more of a test run with new camera. They were also made a lot worse in the processing, the raw data was much smoother.

I think the orientation worked, didn't give it much thought, I havent really thought about what I wanted to convey, more or less shot from the hip. At first I wanted to have another composition, but later realised I couldn't rotate the camera as I would on a focuser, since I just took my plate adapter from my tripod and screwed it to the NEQ-6 instead of a dovetail.

[wxsatuser]

Thats not to bad, some longer subs and it will be really good.

Must admit I do like this region, must do it myself next time out before it gets out of reach.

[jgs001]

Pretty good for the short exposures and high iso. Nicely done.

[VigdisVZ]

The high megapixel count actually makes the noise disappear a bit when scaling down. Will revisit this again when I have tiltable head and a timer remote.

[Ptarmigan]

Very nice

and you have caught cataclysmic variable SS Cyg in outburst  (~mag8.5ish see AAVSO curve below))

you lucky thing you I have been chasing it for a few days now, and failed because of cloud

[VigdisVZ]

Fantastic, thanks for pointing that out. The sky is like a box of chocolate...

[Pete Presland]

fantastic amount of detail for such a short run, excellently done!