first astro shots 600mm + 1200mm

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Well some people reckon that astro shot will show any flaws in glass and this ed 80 refractor is a dream for astrophotography with direct attachment (y).

I did'nt see any colour fringing or false colour the stars where pin point and only look blue due to colour change of the nebula.

m42 orion nebula 40d +600mm eg5 mount, 94sec .

ed80orioncopy.jpg


1200mm moon full frame shot useing the birding tripod.

ed80mooncopy.jpg


ive added this beacuse it was my first pair a galaxies imaged. m81 m82

m81m82-1.jpg


cant wait to get my observatory finshed to longer shots.

many thanks :wave:
 
Great moon shot, but the m42 orion nebula is "outta this world" (y)
(Sorry :coat:)
 
You swine there are great first is ...out of this world... no realy i love it
 
I agree both are great but the orion nebula is brilliant, didn't realise you could do that with a 40D
Pete
 
Tell us a bit about your equipment,jp!

I am contemplating a scope, and would appreciate a heads up.

George
 
The first one is absolutely fantastic, the 2nd is a great moon shot also.
 
The orion Nebula is superb, as good as anything I've seen in a book or mag, excellent moon shot to, please post some more of your astro shots.
Kevin
 
well we seem to have some astro fans on here which is nice to see.
thanks for you comments and there will be plenty more if i can get mu observatory finished tomorrow :D

George said:
Tell us a bit about your equipment,jp!

I am contemplating a scope, and would appreciate a heads up.

George
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well my new wildlife lens is a skywatcher ed 80 600 f7.t pro. (ed apochromatic is the only way to go for £300)

you can get it as an ota (optical tube aseberly) which in term mean just tube, dove tale and telescope rings.

you will also need a eos m42 adapter and a prime focus tube.

i had made my mind up on the 600mm because ive already got the sigma bigma 50-500mm.

with some of the birds that i need to get for my portfolio
are the birds that won't come or can't get close to for a desent crop with the bigma@500mm so 600mm or above is the only answer.


so depending on what your subject matter is there are plenty of cheap ed refractors out there.

as mentioned skywatcher, orion, celestron , moonfish, astro-tech. the easy bit is to deside on lenght and then do a google search.

hope the above made sense :thinking: any problem or any other info /images needed give me a message (y)

jason
 
(y)I dream of getting shots like these. :help:I have been trying to get a shot of the night sky showing the stars for ages using my 75-300mm but it just won't happen any tips?

[S1]Team Sony[/S1]

Paul
 
Thanks, Jason for the info . Google here we come!!
 
Wow, these are amazing. Well done and thank you for posting.Something I would be very interested in trying. Do they do one that can see through clouds. Thats all we seem to get here. lol.
 
Love m42...

did you drift align....

and did you have autoguiding.....

because if not then i am truly amazed.....

I have seen an awful lot of pics of this and some of the setups are quite spectacular..... and the results are nowhere near this good...

colour is spot on.... no hint of skyglow and no noise in the pic....
 
astronomy and astrophotoghy is a passion that ive allways dreamed of getting the night sky on film or digital.

so to here such kind remarks realy does make it all worth the time i thanks you all. :clap:

Hammerhead64 said:
(y)I dream of getting shots like these. :help:I have been trying to get a shot of the night sky showing the stars for ages using my 75-300mm but it just won't happen any tips?

[S1]Team Sony[/S1]

Paul
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first of you can set up your camera on any tripod set the camera to m and shutter speed needs to be 20/30sec remote will stop vibration. manual focus on a bright star. now iso 400-800 depending on how long the sh/sp and that it .

if you do not have a mount that will track the sky your image will have the stars a long streacks of light this the rotation of the earth. hope this helps.:thinking:

Cuddy said:
This is superb, any chance you can take a pic of your set up?
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yes i will shot of my birding set up and astro.

George said:
Thanks, Jason for the info . Google here we come!!
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good luck

kevshore said:
Wow, these are amazing. Well done and thank you for posting.Something I would be very interested in trying. Do they do one that can see through clouds. Thats all we seem to get here. lol.
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no :LOL:

DavePotter said:
Love m42...

did you drift align....

and did you have autoguiding.....

because if not then i am truly amazed.....

I have seen an awful lot of pics of this and some of the setups are quite spectacular..... and the results are nowhere near this good...

colour is spot on.... no hint of skyglow and no noise in the pic....
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my eq5 mount is set up to north and the polar scope is set so the little circle is on the north star.

with this set up i can do images of about 6mins and thats with now guide scope ive always let the mount track and had good resaults.

the image on 94 sec is still very dim so a lot of ph6 work and neat images to bring out the best.

when i learn to stack images that when the detail will start to show.

many thanks every one
 
Seeing your Orion shots prompted me to dig out and scan in these two old slides from 20 years ago.

No. 1
Orion_001.jpg

M42 Orion Nebula 300mm f5.6 lens 15 minute exposure Scotch Chrome 400 film.

No. 2
Orion_002.jpg

Orions Sword & Belt 200mm f4 lens 20 mins exposure Scotch Chrome 400 film

Both pictures were taken on my home made clock drive camera mount. No where near as good your shots but great to see how technology has moved on.
 
Sorry that I havent replied, Im trying to finish my observatory. Thanks every for the kind comments

Richard T said:
wowser!

no 1 just blew me socks off:clap::clap:
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:LOL::LOL::LOL: hope they did'nt hit any one ;)

laser_jock99 said:
Seeing your Orion shots prompted me to dig out and scan in these two old slides from 20 years ago.

No. 1
Orion_001.jpg

M42 Orion Nebula 300mm f5.6 lens 15 minute exposure Scotch Chrome 400 film.

No. 2
Orion_002.jpg

Orions Sword & Belt 200mm f4 lens 20 mins exposure Scotch Chrome 400 film

Both pictures were taken on my home made clock drive camera mount. No where near as good your shots but great to see how technology has moved on.
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Well considering a home made clock drive they are ok and it amazing that after 20mins thing did'nt burn out.
just goes to show thst iso 400 isnt the same on digital.

cheers
jason
 
j.palmer said:
Amazing that after 20mins thing did'nt burn out.
just goes to show thst iso 400 isnt the same on digital.

cheers
jason
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Digital doesn't suffer from Reciprocity Failure like film did

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography)

Film speed gradually gets slower (less light sensitive) with time where as CCD sensitivity remains constant. One of the main reasons why astrophotographers were the first bunch to go digital!
 
Hi all

Excellent images

Here's a widefield of Orion and it's nebula that I took a couple of weeks ago, Had awful light pollution and the moon trying to wash out the sky

Equipment used: Canon EOS30D, Canon 180mm F3.5, AstroTrac

orion-neb.jpg


Steve
 
In the imortal words of an American, OMG, OMG, O...M.....G!!! I am SOOOO jealous of these pics! I want to get shots like this too! :crying:
You mention all this equipment you use but it just goes right over my head! :thinking: So what are these tools you guys use and how much would it cost to get a basic setup done? (mounts etc, (on the subject of them do you need a specail tripod?)
 
I am really confused... are these taken with a DSLR attached to a telescope? When you say 600mm I am picturing a 600mm lens, and not imagining it can get that kind of detail! :eek:
 
j.palmer said:
Well some people reckon that astro shot will show any flaws in glass and this ed 80 refractor is a dream for astrophotography with direct attachment (y).

I did'nt see any colour fringing or false colour the stars where pin point and only look blue due to colour change of the nebula.

m42 orion nebula 40d +600mm eg5 mount, 94sec .

ed80orioncopy.jpg


1200mm moon full frame shot useing the birding tripod.

ed80mooncopy.jpg


ive added this beacuse it was my first pair a galaxies imaged. m81 m82

m81m82-1.jpg


cant wait to get my observatory finshed to longer shots.

many thanks :wave:
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WOW!
 
awesome stuff, no.1 and 3 anyway, i'd also like to know what helium junkie is asking, 600 lens or scope or something, basically, could i go out with my 30D on my tripod and lens at 400mm and get anything close to this or is it more specialised?

How much are we looking at for the kit?
 
Nice shots, I'm amazed you can get 6 minutes out of an EQ5 with 600mm of focal length with so little trailing ?, is the M42 shot just one exposure ?, if so how long was it ?, and what ISO did you use ?, you must have some REALLY nice dark skies too.

Alan
 
Once your using any sort of long exposure of the stars, at whatever focal length you need a driven mount to track the stars the effect of trailing gets worse the longer the focal length as it shows the movement of the earth in a more pronounced manner.

Alan
 
Thank you very much for the comments and I'll make sense of all the tech talk in a new post,

but very much appreciated.

cheers
jason
 
Amazing, cool, fabulous! (y) really looking forward to seeing some more!
 
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