26/01/2026
I generally like to take a few frames at 30sec & a high ISO (10000) just for previewing purposes, and did so while in the process of setting up for my first 24mm widefield session with the R6 on the new harmonic drive mount (wav100i) for the night. Ignore the noise, drift and other optical tech issues; it's a preview shot.
Managed to capture high in the sky the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular galaxy that is the apparent largest & easily seen galaxy with the naked eye (just looks like a cloud), and houses a super nebula, the great Tarantula nebula (the green dot near the bottom of the cloud).
Below is what folks generally call the Milky Way; this is actually just parts of two galactic arms extending out from the Milky Way. The Sagittarius/Carina arm, housing the great Carina nebula (brightest area), which is sitting behind a sparse section of the Orion Spur (the arm where our solar system lives) and where we see our neighbours on Acrux and Delta Centauri of the Southern Cross (just above the tree), and a couple of photobombing satellites, but on cue, it was pack up time for the rain after this shot.
Sure I can annotate the pic, but it's fun to talk about too.
So I've yet to have the opportunity to try out much of the full new rig yet.
Unsure what species the tree is.
Current location Linendale
153.37
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