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    Orion Nebula



    Still working on taking pics. I have bought an autoguider but am having problems

    Better pics to come hopefully
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    wow,that shot is incredible! You would be able to get amazing pics up here, the skies are sooo clear!

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    That's amazing! :-o

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    Is that Orion's belt with the Nebula being the middle star (to the naked eye)?

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    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.



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    Talk about going for an easy star.....

    Quite cool how you got the sunspots though!

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    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

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    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
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    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

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    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.

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    Cool stuff Pete, these are what I've shot with just a long lens

    Moon, obviously!



    Jupiter & some moons



    Saturn

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuZ View Post
    Cool stuff Pete, these are what I've shot with just a long lens
    how long was it??? 6ft???

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    Nice pics JuZ I am also intrested in the lens Whats the aperture / focal Ratio?

    Cheers
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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuZ View Post
    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
    That lens is amazingly awesome . Can you shoot it handheld or does it just kill your arms?

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    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuZ View Post
    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!
    Bloody hello lol. That lens does make me chuckle when I see it, so awesome.

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    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 :
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    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
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    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

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    That's got it amazing photo!

    I looked into getting a lens, but I don't want to spend £1k

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