Canon 700D and 50mm f/1.8

[CraigT82]

Managed to get to a good dark sky location last night, with a Baader modded 700D and nifty fifty.  All shots are single exposures of 4 min at f/2.8 ISO400. Little processing apart from curves and levels (no dark extraction or noise reduction)  Camera mounted on a Sightron nano-tracker.

Looking at these shots on multiple computers I'm beginning to realise just how different they look on different monitors!

Image 1: Double cluster with Heart and Soul nebula.

Image 2: Double cluster again with Pacman neb and M31 lurking in the corner.

Image 3: Pleiades with a smidgeon of California Nebula at the top and some of the Taurus dark nebula complex starting to block out background stars in the bottom left (I think)

[Guest Tuomo]

Nice pictures indeed! Im waiting for my own AstroEQ modded EQ5. Starting to AP myself too.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely set of wide-field shots

[happy-kat]

Particularly like the first image, that would be fabulous to build on.

[laudropb]

Very nice images.

[Chris]

They're great

[Skyline]

Their fantastic. Would love to get into this side of imaging !

[Taff]

Nice work lots of details in your captures.

[edjrgibbs]

Excellent shots. How do you focus your 50mm?

[CraigT82]

Thanks! I focus manually on the nearest star I cansee in live view (whack iso up ad high as it will go and zoom in 10x in live view).

Then proceed to take image, forgetting to set iso back, wasting the 1st sub... Every time! 

[edjrgibbs]

Ha ha, cheers. Need some clear skies to practice now.