I recently rented an 8mm fisheye lens from Borrowlenses.com for a week to mess around. It’s pretty neat but you can only do so much with them. I think when I’m finally going to buy a nice wide lens it will be in the 21mm prime range.
Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol (SDAA Dark Site) on August 30th, 2011
Object: Milky Way
Mount: CG5GT
Imaging scope: Peleng 8mm Fisheye
Imaging FL: 8mm
Imaging focal ratio: f8
Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D
Lights: 3 x 300sec @ ISO 800 (15 Minutes)
Calibration: Darks
Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with Orion StarShoot Auto Guider
Other details: guiding with PHD, captured with APT, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Fits Liberator + Photoshop.
Image Location and Date: Julian Starfest on August 27th, 2011
Object: Milky Way
Mount: CG5GT
Imaging scope: Peleng 8mm Fisheye
Imaging FL: 8mm
Imaging focal ratio: f8
Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D
Lights: 4 x 300sec @ ISO 800 (20 Minutes)
Calibration: Darks
Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with Orion StarShoot Auto Guider
Other details: guiding with PHD, captured with APT, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Fits Liberator + Photoshop.