Cygnus Area Widefield

[GAELICSTORM7]

Hi Guys,

Visited the inlaws in Ireland a couple of weeks ago, and managed to get a nights stargazing in from a lovely dark site, took a few snaps and here's one for your perusal, a few stars and a little of the milky way. Single frame of 240 seconds at 800 ISO, Canon 20D with 17-40mm f4'L' lens at 17mm f4 on a good old EQ5.

Hope you enjoy, comments most welcome.

Alan.

[zeva]

tracking used i m guessing?

[slitherjef]

I was wondering how the 17-40mm f/4L does with astrophotography. Looks like it does really well. Do you have a larger image we can look at?

[GAELICSTORM7]

Yes the EQ5 was polar aligned and driven, the 17-40 seems to cope very well with astroimaging both on 1.6 and 1.3 crop bodies.

Here is a link (fingers crossed) to a larger image

http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=35590.0;attach=202 25;image

Alan

[Celestron]

Very nice Alan ! I can see the NA and Pelican neb , thats good !

[Nighthound]

Spectacular wide field image Alan.

[strgazr27]

Alan,

Fantastic WF shot! Looking forward to more of your work.

[chris.bailey]

A Lot of detail there for a 4 minute frame. Dark skies make a LOT of difference.