Steve Paxton's photos with the keyword: Stars . Southern Skies.

My very first ever attempt of deep space some two years ago was Carina as it is so bight you can see it with your naked eye if you are out of the city light plume. Three consecutive nights of shots in the city light area some with moon light some with no moon. 118 shots 10 min ISO 200 Guided PHD2 Dev3. Shot DSLR Nikon D810 FF using a Skywatcher ED80 telescope In this case it's a 510mm view of the sky above. This was a case of set and let it auto start in SGP each night in the end close to 20 hours of shot time in total. First time all of this has gone without a hitch all in auto mode starting and stopping by itself. Most of this editing was stretching very little colour edit as much as possible as shot. I wanted all the colour that is around the nebula as well as the nebula. Only very small crop to remove stacking artifacts. The detail in this shot is quite staggering will be a very long time it comes down from my computer screen. Please note I went back and looked at the first edit and have redone with what I know in 2024 as a result of a much better photo and still one of my fav shots.