Orion Wide Field, second try.

[nebulosity.]

Now that I got my camera cooled I thought I'd try Orion again and see if I could get it any better, not sure.

Anyway, 120x160 sec subs at Iso 1600, 350D. Lens, Nikon 50mm at f8.

Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher]

Wow! You've got the witch head neb and everything! I think that's the best Orion wide field I've seen.

[Larryp]

Great result!

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Kevin, but I certainly haven't given this area justice, hopefully when I get more experience...

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Laurie :thumbsup:

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

No doubt about it, that 350d is working a treat!

Good stuff Jo!:thumbsup:

Great colours too.

Cheers,

Justin.

[AstroJason]

Wow very nice result! I like that a lot. Well done

[tel.lekatsas]

That is a beautiful image. Lots of wispy stuff. Any chance of a link to a fullsize version?

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Justin :thumbsup: Yeah I'm really happy with the camera, it's amazing what faint stuff you can pick up, a few months ago I was pleased to capture a mag 8 globular and now I'm imaging galactic cirrus in the Hyades :lol:



Thanks :thumbsup:



I didn't put up a large version because I thought it was a pretty poor image :shrug: but I'm planing a three panel mosaic of this area with the 85mm lens on new moon which I hope should work out nice so I'll be putting up a big version then.

Cheers
Jo

[Rex]

Nice work Jo. would be interesting to sit down and see how many objects you have captured in this image. Excellent job !

[Jon]

Lovely. You can just make out the Horsehead as a notch in IC434

[rcheshire]

Nice one Jo.

[kosh]

It's amazing to see just how much there is in that part of the sky. Good job Jo.

[alistairsam]

That's very nice Jo.
is this with the mono 350d or a colour one? are you using rgb filters if its the mono.
a link to it in astrobin would be good.
what did you cool it down to?

Cheers
Alistair

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Rex, Jon, Rowland, Kosh and Alistair, :thumbsup:

I've got the colour sensor in my 350D at the moment as I don't have any RGB or NB filters.

Not sure what the sensor temp was, probably around -10.

cheers
Jo

[Legin]

Beautiful. Well worth the effort on that shot.

[astronobob]

Verry Coool Jo ! Nice Subject captured well :thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

Thanks a heaps Bob :) :thumbsup:

Cheers
Jo

[Irish stargazer]

That's really nice.:thumbsup:
I find with my 50mm lens that the skyglow washes out all the detail in the nebulosity. I must be doing something wrong. A wider lens helps a bit.
Well done!

[JZ]

Hi Jo, very nice shot! Lots of interesting objects there. Just shows what you can do with a std camera lens and lots of time. How come a Nikon lens on a Canon camera? Obviously it comes to focus OK. Is it just a simple lens adapter. Some like my Minolta-Eos adapter will not focus to infinity.
Cheers, Ross...:thumbsup:

[adi]

thats nice capture... would you please explain your setup? i have Nikon DSLR and i am buying 8" Dob next week. would you please guide me what all i need to capture such images? i red so many places that i need Canon for low such photos as Nikons are bad when it comes to noise reduction?

please help

[raymo]

Hi again Jo, beautiful work, but I am curious as to why you used f/8.
Unless the lens has problems, you could have used f/4 and ISO 400,
or alternatively f/2.8 and ISO 200, or f/4 1600 and 40 sec subs,
or f/2.8 and 20sec subs. Having said all that, you'll probably shoot me
down in flames.
Here's to many more fine images.
raymo

[dutch2]

Gorgeous shot, beautiful detail.
Well done.:thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

I have pretty dark skies that help out a lot :thumbsup:



I used the Nikon lens as its the only one I have, it comes to focus perfectly :thumbsup:



My set up is: tracking mount, cooled modified dslr, 85mm camera lens.

Your Nikon should be fine, all you need is a tracking mount and some dark skies.



Good question, because I removed the IR/UV filter from the camera and didn't replace it with anything, I would pick up a much larger part of the spectrum than the lens could acutely focus, but by stopping it down to F8 it was able to get a sharper focus.



Thanks!