Comet 'Lemmon' last night (PICS)

Currantos wrote:

Your images are spectacular. I have nothing to do with astrophotography in general but your images are really great to enjoy on this forum. Way to go man.

Thank you Currantos. I've been wary of posting images here in the R forum because for Astro work people might have preferred that I post them over in the Astrophotography forum instead. But since the EOS Ra is simply a factory-modded EOS R, and because the R is also quite decent for Astrophotography, It may be of interest to folks here as both cameras share the same features (other than IR-cut sensor + 30x magnification on the R). The folks on the Astro forum seem to give Mirrorless and DSLR cameras a bit of a hard time because they're mostly into the cooled CCD/CMOS cameras which are more like a tube that plugs into the back of a telescope. But when I get around to some longer exposures with an EQ Tracking mount, I might post some samples over there. I'm more interested casual observation with wider lenses for landscapes using the Milky Way as a backdrop. I just can't do that with the dedicated Astrocams of the tubular variety. For a portable system, the EOS Ra seems quite capable and portable.
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I saw a single shot of the Andromeda galaxy taken with the EOS Ra on a YouTube video and the detail for a single 45 second exposure looked like the sort of thing you'd typically get from a major observatory or via many hours of tracking and stacking - showing the dust layers and swirls ... only this was just one exposure. Admittedly, the photographer used an expensive EF 400mm f/2.8 lens. But what's to stop someone else using a slightly longer exposure with a different lens on an EQ Mount?
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Link to the image is here: https://www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-ra/

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