Widefield Images
Widefield images are captured with camera lenses and not through
telescopes. Widefields take in huge chunks of the sky. My favorite widefield images
are of the Milky Way.
The image below was taken with a 50mm EF II f1.8 Lens (cost only $US 90)
on an unmodified Canon 350D Digital SLR camera. The camera was riding on a Meade
LXD-75 mount set up in the driveway of my home. The image consists of 18 x 4
minute exposures at ISO 800 with the lens stopped down to f6.3.
Astrophotographers stop down the lenses to yield nice round stars at the edges of the
frame. The field of view is about 25 degrees and the image below has been reduced in
size to 800 pixels to fit on this page. You can view the unreduced (full size)
picture here
(2MB).
At the bottom of this page you can find links to my other favorite
widefield images.
MY BEST WIDEFIELDS
M8
& M20 Lagoon Region Milky Way 14Aug09
M24
Sagittarius Star Cloud - Widefield (24Jul09)
MEGA
POSTER (ULTRA-WIDE Scorpio to Carina - 2.8 MB)
Milky
Way Centred on M17 (384KB)
Norma
Star Cloud (500KB)
45
degrees Mosaic CLOSE UP Southern Cross (1.5MB)
45
degrees Mosaice Wide Shot Southern Cross (150KB)
Sagittarius
Star Cloud 05Aug07 (1.4MB)
Scorpio's
Sting 05Aug07 (1.0 MB)
The
Pipe Dark Nebula 05Aug07 (1MB)
Milky
Way around M6 05Aug07 (1MB)
Milky
Way around M6 05Aug07 (0.5MB - Grayscale)
Milky
Way around M6 05Aug07- SPACEWALK 05Aug07 (2 MB)
Ultra-wide
Milky Way Mosaic between Southern Cross and Eta Carina
The
Coal Sack 15Jul07 (1MB)
The
Table of Scorpius 15Jul07 (1MB)
The
Table of Scorpius Wider 15Jul07( 1MB)
Scorpion's
Tail Poster 15Jul07 (1MB)
Scorpion's
Tail - SpaceWalk 15Jul07 (2 MB)
Southern
Cross & Pointers Poster 15Jul07(1 MB)
Pointers
Closeup Poster 15Jul07 (1 MB)
Milky
Way (Southern Cross & Eta Carina)
The
Southern Cross
The
Coal Sack
Comet McNaught
Milky
Way Space Walk (M8 and Sagittarius) 1.5MB)
BARN DOOR AND OTHER BEGINNER IMAGES
Barn
Door: Milky Way Core (Sagittarius) 17Jun06
Barn
Door: Milky Way Over My House 17Jun06
Canon 350D:
Milky Way Carina and Crux 25Dec05
Beginners Early
Days: Carina and NGC 3532 Jewels 28Dec05
Beginners
Early Days: Carina Region 28Dec05
WIDE FIELD ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
Widefield astrophotographs are spectacular and are perhaps the easiest way to get
images of the stars. It doesn't take a lot of equipment to get started. Checkout the
Astrophotography section for more information.
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