Orion Nebula
Still working on taking pics. I have bought an autoguider but am having problems
Better pics to come hopefully
Orion Nebula
Still working on taking pics. I have bought an autoguider but am having problems
Better pics to come hopefully
Pete
SXOC Member Number : 317
wow,that shot is incredible! You would be able to get amazing pics up here, the skies are sooo clear!
That's amazing! :-o
Is that Orion's belt with the Nebula being the middle star (to the naked eye)?
Just grabbed this, we noticed the sun hidden behind a lot of mist and i grabbed the camera, pointed it right at it and snapped. (Obviously kind of dangerous to eyes and CCD's folks )
Its a lumix G2 with a 200mill lens on it, no fancy settings just picked it up with auto on.
You can clearly see the two major sunspots that are on the space weather pages from a sunday capture.
Last edited by Sideways14a; 06-12-2010 at 13:27.
Talk about going for an easy star.....
Quite cool how you got the sunspots though!
Yeah its an easy one to find that can miss the fecker
But getting a chance to capture a full disk image of the sun without any special filters and just the atmosphere to do the work doesn't come round every day.
I was astonished at how it looked in the sky, just a round while disk that wasnt very bright
It's the 2nd star down in the dagger, you can see it as a bright spot on this pic I took with a standard lens on a DSLR
Love the sunspot pic Good idea to use the mist as an opportunity
This is my setup now, the small telescope has a camera fitted that corrects any errors that the tracking system has made. Well thats the theory, still need to get that bit working
It's interesting but as you can see, a bit cold at times
Pete
SXOC Member Number : 317
Just got in after taking the hound for his nightly constitutional round the farm . Absolutely cracking clear sky and no light pollution makes the stars much brighter and closer
your next task is to take a photo of the moon landing sites showing the landing craft and anything they left behind. proving the conspiricy theorists wrong.
Cool stuff Pete, these are what I've shot with just a long lens
Moon, obviously!
Jupiter & some moons
Saturn
Nice pics JuZ I am also intrested in the lens Whats the aperture / focal Ratio?
Cheers
Pete
SXOC Member Number : 317
It's a Sigma 300-800mm f/5.6, with a couple of TC's on for the really far away stuff probaby!
I look forward to seeing more deep sky shots from you Pete
It weighs 8.5kg so I can manage 1 or 2 shots then have to rest it for a bit the problem is the heavy end is a meter away!
Finally got round to piggybacking my camera. These are 1 minute exposures on 800 ISO. My CCD is really noisy and seems to have picked up a few hundred stuck pixels since last winter, might be able to fix this in processing, but couldn't be arsed! I don't have a motor, so I had to track the sky manually
So this one is of the Milky Way, you can just see Andromeda hiding behind the hedge (I think this one was only 30 seconds actually)
Orion constellation. You can just make out the nebula in the "sword"/"scabbard"
Closeup of the nebula.
I know these aren't amazing, but they're my first ever pics and I'm chuffed. Should be able to get much better pics if I can get a RA motor, stack multiple exposures, and get rid of the dead pixels.
EDIT :
Kit list
Helios 150mm / 1000mm
EQ3-2 mount
Canon 400D
Sigma 10-20 for the galactic shot
Sigma 70-300 for the Orion shots
Cable release
Not very steady hands
Last edited by Smoothound; 06-01-2011 at 07:43.
They look pretty good to me I have seen worse pics on motor guided mounts
After lots of messing about, this is my latest attempt
Pete
SXOC Member Number : 317
That's got it amazing photo!
I looked into getting a lens, but I don't want to spend £1k