Deep Sky Astrophotography
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telemaq76 said:first try on orion nebula with my new astrodon body, 700d
not a lot of differences with standard camera on orion
i used to shoot astro with my regular 1dx.I just notice the gap in dynamic. Never had any problem on orion with the 1dx. With the crop sensor, the center of nebula is quickly overexposed.
Ooh I love this, beautiful job.
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Absolutely great! I bought a celestron AVX mount with 8" newtonian scope last year. Only had one opportunity last year to use the mount with my 7dii and 100-400 ii with 1.4 iii. It was a nice dark site but as it was May Orion was very low on the horizon and with me not familiar with the equipment it took a long time to set up. Even then it was not perfect and I only got 7 usable subs, forgot about the darks before Orion was gone behind the dunes (Kgalakgadi transfrontier park). The photo is attached. I am going to Botswana the last week in March, a dark site again but full moon. And this time i want to use the 8" newtonian. It will be for 10 days so i will get to know my equipment and practise for future use! Any help will be appreciated. What filter to use to minimise the full moon? What settings on the 7dii. I am going to target Orion again so i can see if i get to improve from last year. On the software side i have byeos and dss.
Edit: Apologies, see this thread is for images only.
Edit: Apologies, see this thread is for images only.
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Nice work telemaq76! What cam and mount were you running here? Thanks for compliments on my worktelemaq76 said:superb shot cazza, like all your work
i tried a new picture of orion, with the moon
with canon 500 f4 Is+ teleconverter 1.4 III
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The Great Orion Nebula, M42
Used my stock 6D rather than the full spectrum modded 6D.
Stock 6D, 70-200 f2.8L+2xTCII = 400mm, ISO3200, Shutter times: 20x2min, 16x30s, 16x8s, 12x3s. Was quite warm so dark frame subtraction was used (should have used the peltier cooler!). Astrotrac was used to track the stars.
All done in a bit over an hour in one session with 20 degree ambient temps (should have put the peltier cooler case on!) So had to hit the NR pretty hard on fainter areas - even after dark frame subtraction.
Used my stock 6D rather than the full spectrum modded 6D.
Stock 6D, 70-200 f2.8L+2xTCII = 400mm, ISO3200, Shutter times: 20x2min, 16x30s, 16x8s, 12x3s. Was quite warm so dark frame subtraction was used (should have used the peltier cooler!). Astrotrac was used to track the stars.
All done in a bit over an hour in one session with 20 degree ambient temps (should have put the peltier cooler case on!) So had to hit the NR pretty hard on fainter areas - even after dark frame subtraction.
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i m using a canon 700d modified astrodon with a cls-cdd filter. my mount is the skywatcher neq6pro
and my sky is very cloudy most of the time and lots of light pollution.
new pic of ic434 , again with 500f4+1.4 III on canon 700da
62 subs of 2 minutes + dark, flats, offset
Iris + photoshop
with lots of moon just near orion, lens freezing and seeing very average
and my sky is very cloudy most of the time and lots of light pollution.
new pic of ic434 , again with 500f4+1.4 III on canon 700da
62 subs of 2 minutes + dark, flats, offset
Iris + photoshop
with lots of moon just near orion, lens freezing and seeing very average
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Nice work, everyone! I'm glad to see more people doing astrophotography. It's challenging, but very rewarding.
Here my latest two images. I've had bad weather since the beginning of January, when I made the Witchhead Nebula image. I had also gathered some data on Seagull Nebula on one of the same nights, however I only had about 3 hours of it. I usually try to get 8 hours these days, so I hadn't processed it until recently. I employed some more advanced NR and color processing techniques in PixInsight, and the result actually ended up really good:
Seagull has been on my list for a while. It's a very interesting region. I feel I could still bring out more details, but I would need the full 8 hours, and I won't get another chance to try and add more data until next year.
A week ago, I had my first clear night since the first week of January. I took advantage of the entire night and gathered data on three targets: Blue Horshead (adding another hour of data to the two hours and 20 minutes I had from last year), the Coma Cluster of galaxies (tough region, very faint, little color), and a region I've been after for over a year, and one that has become one of my favorites: The Christmas Tree Cluster and Nebula region:
This is one hell of an amazing field. It's PACKED with objects, a lot of which I was not aware were in there until I started processing the image. I produced a plate solved and annotated version as well:
Here my latest two images. I've had bad weather since the beginning of January, when I made the Witchhead Nebula image. I had also gathered some data on Seagull Nebula on one of the same nights, however I only had about 3 hours of it. I usually try to get 8 hours these days, so I hadn't processed it until recently. I employed some more advanced NR and color processing techniques in PixInsight, and the result actually ended up really good:
Seagull has been on my list for a while. It's a very interesting region. I feel I could still bring out more details, but I would need the full 8 hours, and I won't get another chance to try and add more data until next year.
A week ago, I had my first clear night since the first week of January. I took advantage of the entire night and gathered data on three targets: Blue Horshead (adding another hour of data to the two hours and 20 minutes I had from last year), the Coma Cluster of galaxies (tough region, very faint, little color), and a region I've been after for over a year, and one that has become one of my favorites: The Christmas Tree Cluster and Nebula region:
This is one hell of an amazing field. It's PACKED with objects, a lot of which I was not aware were in there until I started processing the image. I produced a plate solved and annotated version as well:
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Here's my 2 cents!The great orion nebula of course!An easy target for beginners like me!90x1 min exposures 200mm 2.8 @ iso 800 + 20x5 sec for the core with a stock 500d on a skywatcher star adventurer mount.No darks flats or bias.What do you guys think?Should I be getting more of that faint stuff around the nebula with 90 mins of exposure?Should I go for more or will I be wasting my time?
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