Galactic Dark Horse in N.H.

[grfics]

A rare (lately) clear night in New hampshire Thursday - Canon 50D, Sigma 30/1.4, 800ISO, 15 seconds -

http://www.cuckoolele.com/photos/rndm/gdh.jpg

[Courierman]

nice ,whats that top right a UFO

[Peerie]

Is that the result of a single shot?

Courierman, I think you mean bottom right.

John

[grfics]

Yeah, one shot - 15 seconds. It used to take me 15 minutes to get this sort of thing. This is on a tripod.
And there were a lot of (I guess) satellites going every which way.
The lens does have a bit of a coma problem wide open (f1.4), maybe that's your UFO.

[Nighthound]

Awesome shot, you've got some dark skies there.

It appears to be a satellite at the top right.

[chris.bailey]

Blimey O Riley. I stacked nearly an hours worth of short subs a while ago and got nothing approaching this! 15 seconds...

[Bernoulli]

And another satellite just left of center.

Great shot!

[alex eos]

wow great shot. bat this 2 lines in right corner are wery disturbing

[Bernoulli]

wow great shot. bat this 2 lines in right corner are wery disturbing

Those are power lines.

[Catanonia]

wow, amazing and a single 15 second shot..... So jealous.

[Rare1]

great stuff... I don't think it would be possible here with a 1 min exposure.

You are lucky!

[Celestron]

Very nice shot but thats not a horse neb altho it does resemble one . This is a very well know region East of Antares called the "Pipe Nebulea (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020526.html)" and this closeup of the "Pipe Nebulea (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090522.html)" . A Great dark nebulea area to photograph . One of the most popular is the Dark Snake Nebulea (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050521.html) seen in this image . Something you might want to challenge yourselfs to .

[grfics]

Dark Horse Links:

http://spica66astro.blogspot.com/2001/07/galactic-dark-horse-and-mars.html

http://www.cosmicphotos.com/gallery/image.php?fld_image_id=93&fld_album_id=9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_(astronomy)

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/gallery/celestial/9218381.html

[Celestron]

Dark Horse Links:

http://spica66astro.blogspot.com/2001/07/galactic-dark-horse-and-mars.html

http://www.cosmicphotos.com/gallery/image.php?fld_image_id=93&fld_album_id=9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_(astronomy)

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/gallery/celestial/9218381.html

Yes i know those links and aware they also call it the Dark Horse but the more common name is the Pipe Nebulea but you are correct also . Have a nice day !

[Mike Salway]

Beautiful result for 15 seconds, top stuff.

[grfics]

Thanks for all the comments - here's another one from last week - 20sec, f1.4, iso2000 (Canon 50D, Sigma 30/1.4 on a tripod).

http://www.cuckoolele.com/photos/rndm/gsm.jpg

[Adrena1in]

Cracking shots...I can't wait to try some more Milky Way wide-fields, and it's just coming back round again for me.

It's amazing what these lenses can grab though. First time I tried my 50mm f/1.8 I kept getting completely white images because I was way over-exposing, and this is an even faster lens. I've got a 35mm f/1.8 FD lens to try at some point, and would love to get hold of an even wider one. I even saw an f/0.95 lens once, but it wasn't suitable for my DSLR...was a night-vision lens or something. Shame.