Small Magallenic cloud

So far each night has gone well learnt some thing new each time and when you consider this is only night three for me. I am getting there while the result was OK not totally happy where a 14mm is forgiving 200mm is certainly not. The best part it keeps the grey matter ticking over .

Hope you weekend is a good one mine started at 2:30 am with a camera full of shots.

very nice Steve, also getting the globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104). A way to get the tracking errors down is taking more exposures with f.i. 15 sec. and combine them.

I believe this will get better the closer the tracking with the laser pointer, I want to to 4 min exposures rather than 15 sec to get the most photographic info. the sky is black enough even though this is taken some 37 km away from the fringe of the city light. I am learning about the celestial objects . I have always loved the horse head but I believe it just may be passed my range but in a month or two Orion passes out of the city light and is due east. once this happens I will try with the 150-600mm lens to see just how much detail I can get. I made my own counter balance for the bigger lens so it tracks better.

I hope this is just the start because I really want some better detail. the hard part to editing is you have to look at other photos to get the right info on how they should look. my 30 sec stacks looked ok but focus was off so did not most it. slowly getting there its still a joy to get out in the night no matter what. I just keep trying to improve.

You are the master of the skies Steve