Brian- I've not taken many wide field shots with digital cameras, but it seems that the jpeg compression would really kill your resolution and limiting magnitude. There are a bucketload of stars in that image, yet only a 1mb file, so the star images are significantly undersampled, with blocky stars and compression artifacts. Generally speaking, since he was shooting a stop slower than I, but exposed a little over twice as long as my typical single exposure, I'd expect a comparable limiting exposure, limited by the above-mentioned resolution loss. Oh, I forgot Keith shot at an ISO of 400 and I was 2 stops faster at 1600... So what is the "secret" to moderate resolution wide-field shots - 25mb Tiff images? -Dean > I was curious about Keith's image, given the very short focal length > and what seemed to be near-zero processing. The nearly-equal pair > on the southeast side of M11 are 43" apart, which appear as a single star. > So I estimate that the angular resolution seems to be about an > arcminute. The single star within Barnard 92, the oval dark cloud > on the north side of the M24 starcloud, is HD 312872, which has a > V magnitude close to 11.0, and this is faintly visible on the posted > image, and sets a rough limit on how faint the picture goes--- > a flattering case, since the star has near-black surroundings whereas > the typical star in this area would be crowded. > > \Brian > -- > See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please > send personal replies to the author, not the list. > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.