Winter Star Party 2015 Part 3

(Part 1, Part 2)

Autoguided shot of the Crab Nebula with the Edge HD.

The Pleiades through the 200mm lens.

An autoguided shot of the Owl Nebula.

One other major draw of the star party is being able to see Eta Carinae. This nebula is better than M42! Here are three shots, successively zoomed in. The first is with a 200mm lens.

The second was with the Astrotech refractor (about 450mm focal length):

The third was an autoguided shot of the Homunculus Nebula in the Edge HD, the really bright part at the top of the image:

My favorite shots were of vast Milky Way regions to the south, all with the 35mm. Here’s the region just below Scorpius featuring the constellations Ara, Lupus and Circinus:

Here’s Sagittarius:

And, my favorite, Scorpius. Lots of detail in Rho Ophiuchi, too.

(Part 1, Part 2)