Widefield Image of Aquarius by Danny Thomas

Widefield Image of Aquarius – click to enlarge

Image taken at an observing evening FAS put on for Beaver Scouts at Garners Field Scout Camp Site, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey, 24 October at 21:34. 

Unguided 20 second exposure at ISO1600 using 18mm lens on a Canon EOS350 digital SLR.  Some post-processing to using the curves tool to adjust the colour levels and enhance the contrast in the sky

Looking South towards Hindhead and Haslemere, just after the Moon had set behind the hills.   At magnitude -2.1, Jupiter was the brightest object in the sky, just to the North of Capricorn.  But with the aid of Stellarium I found I had also captured Uranus at magnitude 5.9.  Neptune and the minor planet Juno, were in the same field of view, but at magnitude 7.8 the exposure wasn’t long enough to capture them on the image. 

Widefield Image of Aquarius (annotated) - click to enlarge

Stellarium screenshot of Aquarius – click to enlarge