New Year's Eve Consolation Widefields

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Finally had a gap in the weather yesterday down in Cornwall but had a bit of a disastrous session. Was getting terrible trailing on the first mount I set up that I was unable to fix. Then I set up my EQ3 and just had it shooting Orion when a shower blew in and had to pack up in a hurry. However, I did get a few nice consolation shots with my new Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens from a fixed tripod. These are all 30 seconds at ISO 3200.

I timed the shot above so that a car leaving the site did a little light-painting for me.

A hint of Barnard's loop here but Orion was low at the time and I've picked up some light pollution, wish I'd shot this again later in the evening.

I also tried taking some subs of the Milky Way but I'm having no joy stacking them so far, it's just coming out as a distorted mess.

Finally, I did also manage a quick test of my new Ha clip-in filter. This is just 30 seconds with a 50mm lens at f1.4.

Happy new year everyone, I hope 2016 brings you clearer skies than we've had in the last couple of months.

[Alien 13]

What a great set, that Samyang looks the buisness must get one.

Alan

[Pete Presland]

Great collection looks like the HA clip filter is going give some excellent results as well.

[Craig20264]

Absolutely love that first image. Would love a go at the Raw file. I'm sure there's more in there to come out. Beautiful sky. That lens really does look a useful piece of kit for widefield.

[laudropb]

Lovely set of images. Oh for some clear sky here.

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Glad you like them, the Samyang really is the business for fixed-tripod shots. I was hoping to take it to a couple local landmarks but the weather has been dreadful.

Absolutely love that first image. Would love a go at the Raw file. I'm sure there's more in there to come out. Beautiful sky.

I'm on a slow connection atm but I could put it on Dropbox when I'm home if you like. I did very little processing on it myself. That particular shot was taken with an unmodded camera which is why the NA nebula isn't showing up very clearly.

[PeterCPC]

Like them. I tried a widefield with the Samyang last night but it was just awful - the sky looked like soup with all the moisture in the atmosphere here.

Peter

[MAN or ASTROMAN]

Another vote for image number one,here.

Very atmospheric.