*lol* ;D ;D ;DDon Haines said:
da-da-da, da-dada, da-dada (trying to intonate "The Imperial March")
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Deep Sky Astrophotography
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da-da-da, da-dada, da-dada (trying to intonate "The Imperial March")
Maximilian said:*lol* ;D ;D ;DDon Haines said:
da-da-da, da-dada, da-dada (trying to intonate "The Imperial March")
Funny how that old tech, well just looks old after seeing jrista's shots from here on earth. I hope the next ones have a 600 F4L IS II on board.
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Here are some more (including a further enhanced version of the Lagoon one):
M20 & M8 (Lagoon and Trifid):
Milky Way (bit of interference from light clouds):
Snake Nebula and region:
Blue Horsehead:
Eagle and Omega (Swan) Nebulas (M16 and M17):
Also reprocessed my old Andromeda data, whole new (and much more realistic) look:
A guy on Cloudy Nights shared his Trifid data, which turned out to be pretty good:
And my latest, Veil Nebula, which is still a WIP...only got half the data I wanted, plus there were light high clouds moving earlier in the night that left brown muck throughout a lot of the field:
M20 & M8 (Lagoon and Trifid):
Milky Way (bit of interference from light clouds):
Snake Nebula and region:
Blue Horsehead:
Eagle and Omega (Swan) Nebulas (M16 and M17):
Also reprocessed my old Andromeda data, whole new (and much more realistic) look:
A guy on Cloudy Nights shared his Trifid data, which turned out to be pretty good:
And my latest, Veil Nebula, which is still a WIP...only got half the data I wanted, plus there were light high clouds moving earlier in the night that left brown muck throughout a lot of the field:
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jrista said:
WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, and WOW
These are inspirational!!!!!
Fantastic!!!!!!!
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Thanks, Guys! 
Hopefully that won't be the last this year...weather has been pretty wild, never know when the night might clear. I've even missed a couple because I thought it was going to be cloudy, and early when I poked my head out it was...only to have it clear later on after I'd mostly gone to bed (and at that point, I can't go out and set up...not on weekdays.)
Hopefully that won't be the last this year...weather has been pretty wild, never know when the night might clear. I've even missed a couple because I thought it was going to be cloudy, and early when I poked my head out it was...only to have it clear later on after I'd mostly gone to bed (and at that point, I can't go out and set up...not on weekdays.)
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Alejandro said:
The Star Adventurer with the Equatorial Wedge tracks right ascension in sidereal time, so it is definitely not just a glorified barn door. It would be a full equatorial, albeit without any powered DEC tracking (so it will only track in RA, and DEC pointing is manual.)
With an appropriate payload, and good polar alignment, you should be able to track for minutes. With wider field lenses, including a 200mm, you could probably track for 10 minutes, but you really wouldn't need to (the wide lenses suck in a lot of light per pixel.)
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Here's another one. This time, the Gamma Cygni region:
Very complex region, lots of emission nebula (both hydrogen and oxygen), lots of reflection nebula, lots of dark nebula. Star clusters. This one was a tough process. Little bit less than three hours integration time.
Very complex region, lots of emission nebula (both hydrogen and oxygen), lots of reflection nebula, lots of dark nebula. Star clusters. This one was a tough process. Little bit less than three hours integration time.
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These could just be the most stunning images I've ever seen on Canon Rumors.....and I've seen some brilliant work on Canon Rumors.
Great stuff, Jon. Please keep the images coming
Great stuff, Jon. Please keep the images coming
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Thank, Click! Thanks, V8, truly.
I'll keep em comin if I can get em. Weather in Colorado has been really bad this year. Hardly had any clear nights. Been trying through the couple of clear nights we have recently had, but they were riddled with smoke that blew in from California, so still nothing. Now the moon is full, so it will be a couple more weeks before I even potentially get another chance, if the skies are clear (which is unlikely.)
I'll keep em comin if I can get em. Weather in Colorado has been really bad this year. Hardly had any clear nights. Been trying through the couple of clear nights we have recently had, but they were riddled with smoke that blew in from California, so still nothing. Now the moon is full, so it will be a couple more weeks before I even potentially get another chance, if the skies are clear (which is unlikely.)
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There isn't a whole lot of excitement in the astro community for Canon cameras these days. A couple guys promote them a lot, like Roger Clark, but most people are much more interested in the newer entry-level Nikon DSLRs, like the D5300 and D5500. They have lower dark current, higher resolution, lower noise at low ISO. Canon cameras are rarely used ISO 800 and heavily clipped stars are fairly common, but people are using Nikon's as low as ISO 200 (and in a few cases ISO 100) for the increased DR.
The D800, D810, and D810a, with black point clipping hacks and astro modding on the former two, have garnered FAR more interest among higher end DSLR imagers than the 5Ds. The guys I know who image with them produce some of the most amazing astro images I've ever seen.
If there was any field where read noise and dynamic range mattered more than landscape photography, astrophotography is it. By a long shot.
The D800, D810, and D810a, with black point clipping hacks and astro modding on the former two, have garnered FAR more interest among higher end DSLR imagers than the 5Ds. The guys I know who image with them produce some of the most amazing astro images I've ever seen.
If there was any field where read noise and dynamic range mattered more than landscape photography, astrophotography is it. By a long shot.
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