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05-May-2008, 08:31 PM
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Antares and the Rho Ophiuchus Nebula Complex
Hi all
This widefield was taken on Saturday night/Sunday morning, at our local new moon meet at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club. It was taken with my unmodded Canon 350D with a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, stopped down to f/4. I could only fit in 8x 400s exposures (with ICNR) before a meridian flip was due, so I just stopped there. It was almost 3am anyway and time to start packing up. The camera + lens were piggybacked on the ED80, which was auto-guided on my EQ6 using a refractor and my DMK. I've always loved this area of sky, and I haven't really done it justice - it needs more exposures and a darker site, but it's my first widefield image of this region so it's a start. Better version here: Antares and the Rho Ophiuchus Nebula Complex 700px version attached. Thanks for looking.
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Mike . IceInSpace - The Australian Amateur Astronomy Community . My Bio | My Jupiter 2007 Gallery | My Image Gallery 
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05-May-2008, 08:43 PM
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Nice. Antares is a beautiful star.
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06-May-2008, 12:44 AM
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That's a highly populated area for sure. Nice pic.
Robert
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06-May-2008, 09:25 AM
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A beautiful region and another of your fantastic widefield images.
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Kind regards Matt LXD75 SN 8" f/4, DSI II pro The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...." Issac Asimov
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06-May-2008, 06:29 PM
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very nice result there Mike!
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