Barnard's Loop

[steppenwolf]

Just before I went to bed tonight (Saturday 20th December) I let the dogs out and couldn't believe my eyes - a gap in the clouds! By the time I had set up and started imaging, I had 14 minutes before the cloud rolled in and I had blanket cover again!! Luckily, I had used a wide aperture lens so I was only taking 100 second subs. and I managed to get 8 of them. This is the result:-

[Dave]

That is one hell of a capture. You must be pleased with that one.

[Psychobilly]

Very Nice Steve,

On my list but with that FOV my shot may have trees in it as well so it might be a bit whacky...been waiting f for the skies to be able to do this since the begining of the month

Billy...

[RobH]

That's brilliant Steve, glad you managed to get some imaging done!

Cheers

Rob

[Sam]

Wow! that's marvelous! you've done a fine job getting Barnard's Loop.

[Doc]

Jesus that loop really pops out.

And for only 800 seconds it's a cracker.

[russ]

Stunning :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

And just in time for POTW

[Psychobilly]

Jesus that loop really pops out.

And for only 800 seconds it's a cracker.

Taking nothing away from the superb image , I think the relatively fast 50mm prime lens helps with capruting the nebulosity is such a short time... thats the big advantage of using primes over zooms when doing widefield as they are invaraibly a lot faster.....

I'll have to keep an eye on Ebay I think...

Billy...

[saturn5]

A real cracker Steve,perfectly framed too.

[dogfish]

I love that! Nice to see a widefield of a different, yet familiar target.

Cheers, Martin

[barkis]

It's not often we see that Steve, in fact I bet a few are surprised at the existence of Barnards Loop.

It is amazing how some things done on an impulse, can yield such amazing results.

A very informative image, and I think your magazine of choice would grab this one.

Ron.

[tooth_dr]

Very very nice Steve... I tried this one evening, got relatively nothing from a similar length of exposure. I take it the fast lens makes a big difference.

Adam

[Doc]

Jesus that loop really pops out.

And for only 800 seconds it's a cracker.

Taking nothing away from the superb image , I think the relatively fast 50mm prime lens helps with capruting the nebulosity is such a short time... thats the big advantage of using primes over zooms when doing widefield as they are invaraibly a lot faster.....

I'll have to keep an eye on Ebay I think...

Billy...

So would say a Canon F1.8 lens have a field wide enough to capture this. As being F1.8 it would be pretty fast.

[steppenwolf]

So would say a Canon F1.8 lens have a field wide enough to capture this. As being F1.8 it would be pretty fast.

This image was taken with a 50mm focal length F1.8 standard Canon lens so the answer is YES! I always calculate the required field of view in advance and my spreadsheet told me that the 50mm lens and my 'APS' size sensor (typical size for a DSLR sensor) would give a FOV of approx. 26 x 18 degrees, perfect to frame this object.

The reason I have captured such a large amount of data is purely down to that wide aperture.

[Psychobilly]

Appologies Steve for diving in with the bit about fast primes... I knew what you had taken the image with ...

Billy...

[thing]

Great image Steve, not one that you see a lot of.

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely one Steve , got some good detail in that one , must get my 50mm lens fixed up again ,

Rog

[SteveL]

Holy cow! :shock: :shock:

[Keagle]

Wow! Incredible, the kind of results I'm hoping to eventually get. I'm thinking I may have to buy a nifty 50.

[supernova]

Holy cow! :shock: :shock:

This IS a complement.

[steppenwolf]

Thanks for you kind comments folks - just goes to show that it is always worth having a go despite the conditions.

[barkis]

The biggest fillip this image gives out, is the message to wannabe astro photographers, that you don't need to spend a fortune to get superb pictures of the sky. This demonstrates that fact most emphatically.

Ron.

[Talitha]

Great image Steve! You got the Witch Head Nebula, too.

[Tim]

Just to add to the others, fantastic image Steve. I love these widefields, there is so much to look at. I would really like a copy of the full rees version if there's any chance??

Thanks

TJ

[Psychobilly]

I bet it gives Astronometry.net a headache... have you tried submitting it Steve...

Billy...