Re: GSSP 2009 - Rho Ophiuchus region image & "milky way south", ngc7000+viel

Brian Skiff's description of the area is indeed a good read to glean not
only whats up with those stars, but also the "concept of scale".

Yes.. I would have preferred a bigger field to capture more of the "horse",
but with the current setup I'm limited to 70mm. (I could go down to the
17-40mm but I don't have a mounting solution (yet).)

Btw, as Greg noted, at GSSP I also did a "milky way south" that includes the
area from the lagoon to the eagle...
http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114517875/large
The larger image bits are here:
http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114517875/original.jpg
 
Additionally, here's a "widefield" of cygnus from GSSP, also at 70mm. The
attempt here was to capture Ngc7000 and the viel complex in one frame. Imo,
not as spectalar as the southern field -- those darn stars got in the way...
http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114536920/large

Jeff

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> Here is my all-time favorite essay about this area, by Brian Skiff...
>
> http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/colors.htm
>
> ... along with terrific photo by another friend of ours...
>
> \Paul A
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>
> So.. I'm a bit slow/lazy with the image processing for the GSSP 2009
> data...
>
> ... But I did get a couple done last night...
>
> Here's a Rho Ophiuchus nebula region, with the dark lanes and the feet
> of
> the "horse"...
>
> http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114490710/large
>
> (full size bits are here...
> http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114490710/original.jpg
> )
>
> (This was imaged with the QHY8 6mp cmos camera using a canon 70-200mm
> f4L
> camera lens at 70mm.
> I believe this was about 120 minutes total exposure time.
> Guiding was done w/ a DSI mono camera on the FSQ106.)
>
> Jeff
>

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