Another nebula shot

[mountainjunkie]

Eagle and Omega/Swan nebulas. Taken under some dark skies in Utah last weekend.

 

[Tropicalmemories]

Wow. Very nice images. What telescope were you using? I'm guessing this more than a telephoto lens?

 

[mountainjunkie]

Wow. Very nice images. What telescope were you using? I'm guessing this more than a telephoto lens?

Thank you. Yes this was taken with a William optics Z61 on an unmodified Nikon D750, tracked with a skyguider pro.

 

[Space Face]

I'm always intrigued with the vastness of 'out there'. Well taken.

 

[PJM]

Remarkable. It's amazing what's out there that we don't get to see except through images like this. Thanks.

 

[crimbfighter]

Very nice! What was the exposure time on your subs?

 

[mountainjunkie]

Very nice! What was the exposure time on your subs?

Thanks! 50 seconds subs, think I kept around 55 of the 65 I took. Recently purchased a guide scope so I can start doing longer subs but haven’t set it up yet.

 

[photoflyer]

Is that the 250mm lens? How much cropping and how many images were stacked. I have the Sky Adventurer so this winter I'm headed back to the mountains of VA to try and capture similar images.

 

[K9Kirk]

Very cool shot! I wonder if they have a cow/gas problem there....

 

[mountainjunkie]

Is that the 250mm lens? How much cropping and how many images were stacked. I have the Sky Adventurer so this winter I'm headed back to the mountains of VA to try and capture similar images.

This was a telescope with an effective focal length of 360mm. I cropped probably 25% off the left side (didn’t get it framed as well as I wanted as I kicked my tripod after burning an hour framing it well the first time [emoji38])

 

[photoflyer]

didn’t get it framed as well as I wanted

I'm new to the polar aligned tracker but I think I'm getting the hang of it. The ball head has helped. Now if we had dark clear dark skies here in VA. Maybe this winter I can get something that comes close to your very nice result.