Corona Australis

[zicklurky]

Whilst visiting family in South Africa earlier this year, I decided to pop over to Namibia for some dark skies. They are dark!!!

I tried my Canon 200mm lens for some imaging. I really struggled to get the stars across the frame to be round. Not sure if it was my copy of the lens, or a tilting issue, but I ended up stopping the lens down to around f/5 which produced nice stars. I also ended up only shooting RGB frames, as L looked very mushy - the focus distance between R and B filters was quite substantial. The lack of L didn't help when trying to push the data to show the faint dust!

Atik One 9.0

Canon 200mm f/2.8 @ f/5

RGB 12x10min each

Still getting to grips with processing, so any tips / critiques are more than welcome

[inedible_hulk]

Stunning!

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[happy-kat]

very interesting image to look at

[laudropb]

Very nice image. It is always nice to see some of the objects in the Southern skies. Thanks for posting.

[carastro]

Wow, that's really lovely.

Carole 

[Maximidius]

Awesome image, first time I've seen this ...Thanks for posting...

[StargeezerTim]

That is lovely...

[BeanerSA]

Stunning widefield.

[wimvb]

Fabulous image. I love the way the dark nebula pops out. Almost as if you can grab it.

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[Mr Bergman]

Nice nebulosity! New object for me as well. 

[theo]

yep I really like this. Excellent work!

Pete

[zicklurky]

Thanks all!

Chris