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Posted: 20 Sep 2021

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Major part of the Small Magnallenic cloud.

I had for gotten I took this on the last free night before it rained. This is an area of the sky there are just so many stars and as you can see a huge number of Nebula's in such a small space. This is the New CMOS camera giving me a view of around about 1560mm. Looking at the few trial photos I have taken looking forward to a moonless night and to get a good target. Testing has gone well.

Small Magellanic Cloud NGC292

29 shots 10min each @-10c.

QHY 183C @ -10c

Prima Luce Essato Focus ,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

Ruebenkraut, Fred Fouarge, cammino, tiabunna and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo

11 comments - The latest ones
 raingirl
raingirl club
the stars are calling. wonderful images.

i usually crave the moon, but obviously you have different goals than me *smile*!
3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to raingirl club
nothing wrong with the moon

Moon Rise to Total Eclipse

done the moon as well looking just a little small and deeper out in space. many thanks.
3 years ago.
raingirl club has replied to Steve Paxton club
yes - i've seen that one of yours! i had forgotten about it.
3 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
marvelous!

Happy new week:)
3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to Annemarie club
thank you it did come out very well this little is proving to be a great addition.
3 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
As always Steve, an excellent set here. Oh to have skies clear enough for this kind of photography. Can it be any wonder why people want to go up into space! Well done.

Keep safe. Herb
3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to Herb Riddle club
Herb at the moment I am still "playing, looking" as its full moon time so no real good photos but coming to terms with this focuser and camera combination. I do look forward to clear dark nights coming. In truth trying to think how I can use this camera to take a photo of the moon nearly 1600mm with current set up other than Nikon & 600mm lens. I have 3 more clear night full moon.

You keep yourself safe as well still waiting for NZ to open to travel.
3 years ago.
 Ko Hummel
Ko Hummel club
nice details Steve. But what do you mean by a view of 1560 mm, is that your effective focallength?
3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to Ko Hummel club
Yes by changing the size of the sensor you get that effective focal length . so in effect I get three focal lengths out of the one scope just by changing the size of the sensor. Look at the first two both taken with same ED80 scope third is FF and my 600mm lens but you get the idea.

this is a 1" sensor x3 crop factor =1560mm
M20

APS-C sensor x 1.5 crop factor = 780mm

Lagoon Nebula M8 & Trifid Nebula M20

FF sensor x1.0 = 520mm in this shot 600mm Lens

Lagoon Nebula & Trifid Nebula- Do look large
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
Very impressive indeed, Steve.
3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to tiabunna club
Thank you we get to see a lot more details in those white clouds we see in the southern sky both of them are very busy places. most people would not take photos of them but would turn to the more impressive views of space. my trials with this camera are complete now its get more moonless nights part of my trials has been focus and guiding in fact I took 20 min exposures in the moonlight very badly effected by the moon not at all post able on my account. I will redo the Galaxy in the dark once I can a rather impressive one but washed out by the moon.

times in moon light are more for trials than photos not unless you have a mono camera which at this stage I dont have or intend to get. I have re routed all the cables and wrapped them in shade cloth so its more flexible than the firm plastic spiral wrapping. its all worked as I had hoped.
3 years ago.

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