Iris Nebular and surrounding dust

[AbsolutelyN]

Taken in just 2.5 hours from amazing Bortle 1 skies of northern Scotland. Canon 6d (modified) and Sigma 105 1.4 lens on a little Star Adventurer. 150x 60 second exposures. 

https://www.astrobin.com/n4t69f/

Edited September 5, 2021 by AbsolutelyN

[tooth_dr]

Mind blowing Tristan. What an image. 

[david_taurus83]

Stunning! 

[Crackabarrel]

Beautiful, excellently done

[Craig a]

A really super image, bortle 1 sky’s! I can dream, the view of the Milky Way must of been mind blowing 

[CraigT82]

Wow! That really is world class Tristan. 

[AstroAndy]

Wow.

[Ags]

stunning!

[Sp@ce_d]

Brilliant..  looking at that bottom right corner you just know it’s crying out for a mosaic 🤣

[clarkpm4242]

That is fantastic!!  Love it 

[AbsolutelyN]

19 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

Mind blowing Tristan. What an image. 

Thanks Adam. I wish I'd opened the aperture a bit more now - I stopped it down to f/2.5 as I was concerned about the corners on full fame but looking at other images I took now they are stacked I bet I could have just about got away with f/1.8

[AbsolutelyN]

8 hours ago, Craig a said:

A really super image, bortle 1 sky’s! I can dream, the view of the Milky Way must of been mind blowing 

The Milky Way was incredible - image of it here - 

 

[AbsolutelyN]

8 hours ago, CraigT82 said:

Wow! That really is world class Tristan. 

Thank Craig - mostly just very lucky to hit on clear skies.  

[Rustang]

What they all said and more! 👏

[mackiedlm]

That is an amazing image - beautiful!

[The Lazy Astronomer]

That really is something quite special there. I dare say there won't be many people to have captured so much of that dark dust - definitely my favourite image of the year 👍