Large Magellanic Cloud

[kiwiapple]

I have started to play around with more wide field astro images now that I have a good handle on using my Benro Polaris and an astro-mod camera with 100mm Rokinon lens (what a great lens!!). So last night I decided to shoot this gem of the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud. I gave it around 2-1/2 hours of 45-second exposures and didn't have a bad frame in the bunch! Canon 300D at ISO3200, f/2.8, stacked and processed in Pixinsight with the usual plugins and tweaked in Photoshop.

 

[Mike Lewis]

I SO want to image this at a larger scale than I was able to get for my one night in Uluru/Kata Tjuta NP shooting fixed tripod with my R5 and a 15mm f/2 lens. That sure was some dark sky though.

This is spectacular - I hope the Benro Polaris guys are using your images to sell their device

ML

 

[JimFox]

So awesome James! You really nailed it. That's a dream object that I am not sure I will ever get to see.

Is that visible all year?