So my wife was working till midnight. I got off work and had nothing to do. I went out with my equipment and spent some time snagging shots. I think next time I'll hit a higher ISO (800) but this time around went with 400ISO. 90 second photos, 21 total. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. I'm very happy with the results considering the low amount of exposure time.

Orion Nebula (M42)

This was my last picture from a little while ago (Also my avatar) of Andromeda.

Those are beautiful!

And you that with a 400 film speed? Jesus fuck. You did good. Depending on the camera youvise however Id recommend 1600 or maybe 3200 if it looks good.

(December 25, 2013 at 10:54 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: And you that with a 400 film speed? Jesus fuck. You did good. Depending on the camera youvise however Id recommend 1600 or maybe 3200 if it looks good.

The camera used was a Canon T1i with Baader modification. Next time I'll go with 800ISO and bump it up one and just go with longer exposure times. It'll do 1600/3200 but Orion is a pretty bright object so I'll probably see how it goes one session at a time. All in all I'm pretty happy with this.

I don't have a guidescope or anything. Just the telescope, a field flattener and the camera with my tracking mount.

(December 25, 2013 at 11:01 am)Logisch Wrote:

(December 25, 2013 at 10:54 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: And you that with a 400 film speed? Jesus fuck. You did good. Depending on the camera youvise however Id recommend 1600 or maybe 3200 if it looks good.

The camera used was a Canon T1i with Baader modification. Next time I'll go with 800ISO and bump it up one and just go with longer exposure times. It'll do 1600/3200 but Orion is a pretty bright object so I'll probably see how it goes one session at a time. All in all I'm pretty happy with this.

I don't have a guidescope or anything. Just the telescope, a field flattener and the camera with my tracking mount.

Him I own the same camera and I have done all sorts with it ( though your astrophotography is much better the mine) the lucky bit with that camera is that the increasing the film speed doesn't affect the graininess much. Can you get canis major is on a canon rebel?

(December 25, 2013 at 11:29 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:

(December 25, 2013 at 11:01 am)Logisch Wrote: The camera used was a Canon T1i with Baader modification. Next time I'll go with 800ISO and bump it up one and just go with longer exposure times. It'll do 1600/3200 but Orion is a pretty bright object so I'll probably see how it goes one session at a time. All in all I'm pretty happy with this.

I don't have a guidescope or anything. Just the telescope, a field flattener and the camera with my tracking mount.

Him I own the same camera and I have done all sorts with it ( though your astrophotography is much better the mine) the lucky bit with that camera is that the increasing the film speed doesn't affect the graininess much. Can you get canis major is on a canon rebel?

Canis Major is a pretty bright object. If that's a request then I'll happily shoot it next time I'm out if you would like. Even through the LCD real time view I'm able to see the stars at the core of orion, albeit faintly, which is nice since I use those as a focus point and focus the telescope based off of those at a 10x zoom.

(December 25, 2013 at 11:36 am)Logisch Wrote:

(December 25, 2013 at 11:29 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Him I own the same camera and I have done all sorts with it ( though your astrophotography is much better the mine) the lucky bit with that camera is that the increasing the film speed doesn't affect the graininess much. Can you get canis major is on a canon rebel?

Canis Major is a pretty bright object. If that's a request then I'll happily shoot it next time I'm out if you would like. Even through the LCD real time view I'm able to see the stars at the core of orion, albeit faintly, which is nice since I use those as a focus point and focus the telescope based off of those at a 10x zoom.

If its a fairly easy one I may make that a personal mission. I was writing a story about it a d the experience of shooting g it would help there

I hope I'm not here in the endtimes when those stars are going to start falling to earth. It's going to have to be a heck-a-va cave to be able to save ourselves from that.

(December 25, 2013 at 1:27 pm)Brakeman Wrote: I hope I'm not here in the endtimes when those stars are going to start falling to earth. It's going to have to be a heck-a-va cave to be able to save ourselves from that.

A cave to protect yourself from a that's a 1000x bigger then the earth when it is on a collision course? Did you hit your head and convert to Christianity?

(December 25, 2013 at 1:36 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:

(December 25, 2013 at 1:27 pm)Brakeman Wrote: I hope I'm not here in the endtimes when those stars are going to start falling to earth. It's going to have to be a heck-a-va cave to be able to save ourselves from that.

A cave to protect yourself from a that's a 1000x bigger then the earth when it is on a collision course? Did you hit your head and convert to Christianity?

Are you trying to tell me that those tiny little specks can hurt me when they fall? That's so silly, how could they get through the dome holding up the upper waters? Oh unless you're referring to the windows that god opens to make it rain. Do you thing one of those bigger basketball sized stars might squeeze through those droplet sized holes? Impossible! Unless goddidit..

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