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: [...]
Posts tagged ‘orion’
Sadr Region, central Cygnus.
August 29th, 2012
Omega Centauri from Anza, CA
March 25th, 2012
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 [...]
M78 – Reflection Nebula in Orion
March 5th, 2012
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 [...]
M42 – Great Orion Nebula
February 15th, 2012
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 [...]
Helix Nebula from Tierra Del Sol
September 27th, 2011
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! [...]
More from Joshua Tree
September 17th, 2010
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. *
Orion Widefield from Joshua Tree
September 12th, 2010
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 *
M42 Orion Nebula from Tierra Del Sol
December 24th, 2009
Image Location and Date: SDAA site at Tierra Del Sol on December 24th 2009 Object: M42 Nebula in Orion Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 65 x 30 sec ISO 3200 (32min) Calibration: None Guide scope: None Stacked in DSS [...]