At long last clear dark skies! It has been a long wait, but with a bright waning moon rising early, no time to be lost. I decided to take some images with fast optics, making use of my old SLR lenses. I posted
previously about my project the ‘adapt an adapter’ to attach these to my DSI III pro mono camera.
This image is taken through a 28mm Pentax lens at f4 combining subs taken through an IR cut filter (to reduce bloating) and Ha 7nm filter (to pick up the HII emissions) - data were captured in Envisage, aligned and stacked in ASTAP and processed in Startools.
Numerous HII emissions are squashed into this area of the sky, with a dense Milky Way star field, making it difficult to showcase the detail. I have applied some contrast to this image to help bring the nebulae out, and the plate-solve helps with identification.
A pixel scale of 47” per pixel is far from ideal, but provides the widest FOV in my astro-imaging arsenal. With high humidity, and seeing below par, I was pleased to be able to sit our under the stars, even if I got wet feet.
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