Pocketrubbish

What a big difference the CLS filter makes, almost looks like I did hargb. I was lucky enough to get 5 hours on this target from a green zone. DSLR cooler (thanks Stephen!) helped big time with the noise. Image Location and Date: OCA dark site @ Anza, CA Object: Sadr and surrounding nebulosity. Mount: [...]

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Recently took a week off work and since I’m trying not to spend too much money right now I decided to take my vacation at my club’s dark sky site. This is the first of many images I grabbed… nice thing about having six-seven nights to image is that I have no problem focusing on [...]

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Finally got a clear night to image (since I live in socal that means we had some clouds for 2 or 3 day). Temps were very nice for me, not so much for the camera. I need to finish that cooler box! Image Location and Date: OCA dark site @ Anza, CA Object: Cocoon Nebula [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA dark site @ Tierra Del Sol, CA Object: IC1396 Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Canon 1100D (Rebel T3) Modded Lights: CLS Filter 5x1200sec @ ISO 1600, HA 12nm Filter 13x1200sec @ISO1600 Calibration: Darks, flats Guide scope: [...]

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I had gone out to my clubs dark site for several nights to work on a widefield mosaic of the Orion/Gemini area, once that set I had some free time to shot a few objects I’ve always wanted to go for. I noticed Omega Centauri was barely above the mountains to the south around 1 [...]

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This is always a fun target, good test to see how deep I can push the new camera. Pretty damn deep it looks like! You can easily pick out M 84, Ic 3303, Ngc 4387, Ngc 4388, Ngc 4402 , M 86, Ngc 4407, Ngc 4425, Ngc 4435, Ngc 4438, Ngc 4461, Ngc 4473, Ngc [...]

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This sure was challenging! Two out of the three nights I arrived late and couldn’t start work until Orion well into the light pollution of north San Diego county. Taking stuff out of the car, polar alignment, mount alignment, focus and framing really eat up my dark sky time but I don’t have much of [...]

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Image Location and Date: OCA dark sky site in Anza, CA on January 17th, 2012 Object: Great Orion Nebula Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 6 x 600sec, 15 x 300sec, 20 x 60sec @ ISO 800 (155 [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA dark sky site at Tierra Del Sol on November 28th, 2011 Object: M33 Galaxy Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 15 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (2.5 hours) Calibration: Darks, Flats Guide scope: [...]

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This one was very very tough. I had some very bad gradients from light pollution, upper atmosphere clouds and a red LED that somehow leaked light into the scope causing some nasty images in the core frame. I’m not sure if I’m happy with the colors or not so I may come back to this [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA dark sky site at Tierra Del Sol on October 29th, 2011 Object: IC405 Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 30 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (5 Hours) Calibration: [...]

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Image Location and Date: Palomar Mountain Observatory Campground on October 1st, 2011 Object: NGC7000 North America Nebula + IC5070 Pelican Nebula in Cygnus Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: 300mm Tair-3c lens Imaging FL: 300mm Imaging focal ratio: f6 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 9 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (1 Hour 30 Minutes) [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA site @ Tierra Del Sol on September 23rd and 24th, 2011 Object: M45, The Pleiades Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 23 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (3 Hour 50 Minutes) Calibration: None! [...]

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Image Location and Date: Julian Starfest on August 28th, 2011 Object: NGC7000 North America Nebula Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: 300mm Tair-3c lens Imaging FL: 300mm Imaging focal ratio: f5.6 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 7 x 300sec @ ISO 800 (35 Minutes) Calibration: Darks Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with Orion StarShoot Auto Guider [...]

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I recently rented an 8mm fisheye lens from Borrowlenses.com for a week to mess around. It’s pretty neat but you can only do so much with them. I think when I’m finally going to buy a nice wide lens it will be in the 21mm prime range. Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol (SDAA [...]

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