View from SW Irish Patio

[Captain Scarlet]

Last night, Moon notwithstanding, I tried out a new idea for collimating my 6" Intes, which turned out to be a non-starter (I spent this afternoon undoing the damage). In the mreantime, I took a few wide-angle dew-wiped images with my Canon 6D and Samyang 14mm/2.8 (10s ISO 1600 wide open). It doesn't like very bright sources, huuuge coma, but I'm quite pleased nonetheless. This was after having accidentally let a cat slip out at 1145 and spending ages tramping around fields in the Moonlit dark trying to find him. Eventually found him back in the garage waiting for us grrr.

Venus also reflected in Church Strand Bay.

 

[tingting44]

stunning! looks like you have some nice dark skies

[Captain Scarlet]

19 hours ago, tingting44 said:

stunning! looks like you have some nice dark skies

Indeed lovely and dark. When the North Atlantic weather permits...