Pocketrubbish

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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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: SDAA site @ Tierra Del Sol on September 23rd and 24th, 2011 Object: NGC7293 Helix Nebula Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 9 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (1 Hour 30 Minutes) Calibration: None! [...]

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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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Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol (SDAA Dark Site) on August 30th, 2011 Object: M31 Andromeda Galaxy Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: 300mm Tair-3c lens Imaging FL: 300mm Imaging focal ratio: f5.6 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 55 x 300sec @ ISO 800 (4 Hour 35 Minutes) Calibration: Darks Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder [...]

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Image Location and Date: Joshua Tree National Park, Indian Cove Campground September 10th 2010 Object: Flame and Horsehead Nebula in Orion Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 12 x 300sec ISO 3200 (2 hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares [...]

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Sitting at the airport, flight to SFO is delayed, processing some leftover images from last weekend. Here is the constellation Orion with some clouds in front of it. Here is a the center of Cygnus with a 70mm lens I found at the swap meet for $15 Still more to come from this session. *

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Image Location and Date: Joshua Tree National Park, Indian Cove Campground September 10th 2010 Object: M33 Galaxy in Triangulum Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 60 x 120sec ISO 3200 (3 hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder [...]

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I want to reprocess this once I get my big monitor set up but here it is for now: 60min exposure, 50mm 1.8 ISO 800 Nikon D60 on CG5 Mount *

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Southern Milky Way Cygnus Area of the Milky Way, North American Nebula is in the center. Cassiopeia + Perseus… double cluster in the center. *

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I can’t remember if I’ve posted pictures of my setup but here it is. I’m testing everything out tonight before I spend a weekend in Joshua Tree, it’s been awhile since I’ve gotten out to the desert and I didn’t want to forget anything. *

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Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol on May 16th, 2010 Object: M8 Lagoon Nebula Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 28 x 180 sec ISO 3200 (1 hour 24 minutes) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with [...]

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Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol on May 15th, 2010 Object: Virgo Galaxy Cluster Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 30 x 180 sec ISO 3200 (1.5 Hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with Orion StarShoot [...]

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I just picked up a lovely JMI EV3N Focuser from OPT for my Celestron Omni 150 Newt. Much nicer than the stock unit. *

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