Milky way, Jupiter and Antares

[alexbb]

This is one of my first tries at Milky Way wide field. The aim is to cover this area at high(er) resolution over the summer/years. For now, last night, I managed to shoot a bit over 1h with 2 Canons. 50mm @F/2.8 with the 550D and 70mm @F/4 with the 6D.

Here it is:

[carastro]

Excellent certainly knocks spots off mine.  What length were your subs and what mount were you using? 

Carole 

Edited June 9, 2019 by carastro

[alexbb]

14 hours ago, carastro said:

Excellent certainly knocks spots off mine.  What length were your subs and what mount were you using? 

Carole 

Thank you, Cara! Skies were decent, though far from the best I had in that area other times. Usually it's a Bortle 2 there, but now there was something lurking in the air, you can see some weird gradients to the right, perhaps some passing cloud not visible in a single frame. Still a Bortle 3 maybe.

I exposed for 3 minutes with each camera. 2 x (9 subs for one panel with a bit of moon and 7 subs for both other 2 panels, without moon). I put them on the AZ-EQ5 and dithered every frame.

Alex

[carastro]

Thanks you seem to have better conditions than me.  I was Bortle 5 (could not see the MW)  and I was using an unguided Ioptron Skytracker.   

Never the less your image is excellent.  

Carole 

[tooth_dr]

On 09/06/2019 at 22:49, alexbb said:

This is one of my first tries at Milky Way wide field. The aim is to cover this area at high(er) resolution over the summer/years. For now, last night, I managed to shoot a bit over 1h with 2 Canons. 50mm @F/2.8 with the 550D and 70mm @F/4 with the 6D.

Here it is:

Fabulous. I’m heading to Italy soon, and I have one astro objective - to get an image of this region 👍🏻 It will still be low but higher than Northern Ireland.

If it turns out half as good I’ll be over the moon. 

[alexbb]

On 25/07/2019 at 00:25, tooth_dr said:

Fabulous. I’m heading to Italy soon, and I have one astro objective - to get an image of this region 👍🏻 It will still be low but higher than Northern Ireland.

If it turns out half as good I’ll be over the moon. 

Thank you! How did it go?

[tooth_dr]

20 hours ago, alexbb said:

Thank you! How did it go?

I’m still in Italy but I didn’t realise how low this would be as we are in the north. I tried a couple of nights but just couldn’t get to a dark enough location. I think I’ll have to concede that a family holiday is too difficult to combine with ‘proper’ astrophotography but is ok for some casual nightscapes.