You don't need a telescope

Thank (insert deity here) for a new page. Couldn't have posted otherwise.

A Monarch's blood moon.

Not strictly a telescope, but might as well be, the 600mm f/4L with 2x extender, to give 1200mm f/8. I tried it on Mars (more or less at opposition) and Saturn. These are on 7D and reproduced here at 100%, so a severe crop.

Mars; 1/500, f/11 ISO800

Cool ... I like the "drunk Alien" theory

M13

Some photos from a trip this past week to the southwestern part of Colorado.

Night sky over Telluride

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Taken from 1 hour north of Brisbane, Australia.

The Antares Region of the Milky Way.
6D
50mm
f1.4
ISO 3200
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Some great shots on this page

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Amazing shots on here! Here's a couple of pics from me:

Taken with a Samyang 14mm on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the barrel distortion is really quite obvious, but it should be an easy fix once I've got lightroom

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They're galaxies called the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud.
Google them for a bit more of a description.

Steve.

Thanks Steve!

While camping at Jimna State Forest last week I had a go at capturing the Andromeda Galaxy just using my tripod-mounted 50D without any tracking. This is 31 x 6 second exposures with my Tamron 90mm macro lens at f/2.8 and 3200 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The galaxy was 20 degrees above the horizon, which is about as high as it gets here.

Not a great image, but I was able to pick up some detail in the spiral arms.

Cheers,
Stephen

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Milky Way from Jimna State Forest:

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Night sky, Southern Finland, last Autumn:

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S.R.M. wrote in post #17013720
While camping at Jimna State Forest last week I had a go at capturing the Andromeda Galaxy just using my tripod-mounted 50D without any tracking. This is 31 x 6 second exposures with my Tamron 90mm macro lens at f/2.8 and 3200 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The galaxy was 20 degrees above the horizon, which is about as high as it gets here.

Not a great image, but I was able to pick up some detail in the spiral arms.

Cheers,
Stephen

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Really nice! How do you manage to frame this shot? I have an app that tells me where those objects are but it must be pretty tricky to get them in the frame with a longer focal lenght...