Where your Astrophotography started - Initial efforts
It was mentioned here, about our beginnings in imaging, and sounds like a great idea to encourage noobies that are struggling with blobs, blurs, and basically unrecognisable images. There is hope!
Don't be diss-heartened, many of us started out with the dreaded blob!
Hi Ken,
Well done! I think from time to time this type of thread needs to be rehashed (for want of a better word). It does show us newbies to the imaging game that everyone goes through the learning curve.
Here are a few of mine. As can be seen these are not sharp or focussed enough. These are all single frame shots.
(1) Mars
(2)various Moon Craters
Cheers
Heres my four,
The moon doing funky stuff
The carinae region
Comet urgh I forgot... badly bumped
And the centrally dominant head tail in galaxy cluster Abell 0332 heh.
Not sure that one counts... ATCA radio data
Yesss... i started off as a planet guy bought the wrong scope knowing nothing about F/4 scope lol. picked up that scope at Cash Converters which came with a non motor driven EQ2, 2 eyepeices and 1 barlow. After awhile, i then realised my F/4 scope was not meant to be for planets but for deep sky stuff and thats how i started....
I started "astrophotography" about 15 years ago (when I first got an SLR), doing star trail shots. One of the very first I did was of Orion from a dark sky site at Bundjalung National Park, and when I went back and scanned it years later I realized that I'd imaged Barnard's Loop. Didn't even know what Barnard's Loop was at the time I took the photo! Anyway, I ended up getting it published in Aust Sky and Telescope, which was a bit surprising for a first go!
I've only started "real" astrophotography in the last month, mucking around with digital cameras held up to the eyepiece of my 130mm newt. And I need a LOT of improvement before I'll consider submitting these to a magazine!!!
Heres my four,
The moon doing funky stuff
The carinae region
Comet urgh I forgot... badly bumped
And the centrally dominant head tail in galaxy cluster Abell 0332 heh.
Not sure that one counts... ATCA radio data
I recognize the nice pics that Karma produces.
My earliest pics are on this webpage
The attached image predates the CCD images but is also radio data. It is a 21cm image of the small Magellanic cloud taken with the ATCA. I didn't take the image but processed the data from it (with lots of help)