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Astrophotography
« on: January 24, 2015, 10:32:25 PM »
I am experimenting with astrophotography. I will put the first ok photo on here tomorrow. It is the Orion Nebula. Turned out quite good if I say so myself!
Here is the photo.
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Re: Astrophotography
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2015, 10:03:07 PM »
Nice! What equipment are you using?
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Re: Astrophotography
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2015, 10:45:38 PM »


That's an awesome shot Phil
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Re: Astrophotography
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2015, 11:09:32 PM »
Nice picture. What exposure time and what equipment? Orion is an excellent area of sky to take some shots.

Look forward to seeing some more.
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Re: Astrophotography
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2015, 07:22:31 PM »
Hi All,
I am using a Canon 650D camera with a 200mm Tamron lens. Rather low quality lens but as long as I don't blow the picture up too much all is good. The camera is on a good tripod, an EQ tracking type. I took 45 photos at one minute each but only used 37 of them as a few of them had satellite traces or a plane through them. I also took 20 darks (that is with the lens cap on) and then stacked them all together and did some mucking around with them to finally pull out what  you see. Cheers. Philip
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Re: Astrophotography
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2015, 11:55:54 AM »
Thanks for that. Keep going with what you are doing- good to see the results.
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