The bright Double Cluster, at bottom, aka NGC 869 and NGC 884, below the large and scattered open star cluster, Stock 2, aka the Muscle Man Cluster, with a chain of stars between them. Stcok 2 is over the border in Cassiopeia. These are obvious in binoculars but less so in a long exposure photo. High haze this night added the natural star glows. The field simulates the field of view of higher-power binoculars. This is a stack of 7 x 8-minute exposures at ISO 800 with the Canon EOS Ra through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph, guided with the Lacerta MGEN-3 stand-alone autoguider and dithered, so no LENR or darks were employed. This was on the Mach1 mount. Star spikes added with Astronomy Tools Actions.
Eta Carinae Nebula area with Lambda Centauri (Running Chicken Nebula) nebulosity. Taken from Atacama Lodge, Chile, March 18, 2010, with modified Canon 5D MkII and Canon L-Series 135mm lens at f/2.8, for stack of 5 x 3 minute exposures at ISO 800.
This is the rich Eta Carinae Nebula area of the southern Milky Way, with the main nebula surrounded by a variety of open star clusters: NGC 3532 the Football Cluster, IC 2602 the Southern Pleiades, NGC 3293 the Gem Cluster. This is a stack of 4 x 3 minute exposures at f/2.8 with 135mm telephoto lens and Canon MkII camera at ISO 800. Two of the frames had some haze from passing clouds, which added natural star glows. No filter used here. The field simulates the field of view of binoculars.
