Screwdriverone
04-06-2014, 09:25 PM
Hi All,
A bit of fun with the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas (L to R respectively) using my son Anthony's Canon 6D DSLR combined with my ED80, Orion 0.8x Focal reducer and CLS 2" Light pollution filter from last night. Cropped about 600 pixels on each edge to remove some horrible vignetting from the too narrow T ring that connects the scope to the full frame 6D DSLR. An interesting test of the Field of View using a DSLR. Only a 30 min (10 x 3 min @ ISO 800) test, with 10 flats used. Man, what a view compared to the narrow Atik & Newtonian combo. :)
It was fun using Backyard EOS again and it took me a while to get Stellarium Scope and PHD playing nicely on my new Windows 8.1 work laptop, so I didn't get as many exposures before I had to head in to get sleep for work. I forgot just how much disk space DSLR files take up plus, how long it takes to process.
Nothing bragworthy, but certainly something fun to do, even if it was just to see what could come out the other end.
50% reduction on the size for the JPG thumbnail below, the full size pic is on dropbox here (2Mb JPEG) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ba2e7cvb72ksirv/Lagoon%20and%20Trifid%20JPG.jpg
Cheers
Chris
A bit of fun with the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas (L to R respectively) using my son Anthony's Canon 6D DSLR combined with my ED80, Orion 0.8x Focal reducer and CLS 2" Light pollution filter from last night. Cropped about 600 pixels on each edge to remove some horrible vignetting from the too narrow T ring that connects the scope to the full frame 6D DSLR. An interesting test of the Field of View using a DSLR. Only a 30 min (10 x 3 min @ ISO 800) test, with 10 flats used. Man, what a view compared to the narrow Atik & Newtonian combo. :)
It was fun using Backyard EOS again and it took me a while to get Stellarium Scope and PHD playing nicely on my new Windows 8.1 work laptop, so I didn't get as many exposures before I had to head in to get sleep for work. I forgot just how much disk space DSLR files take up plus, how long it takes to process.
Nothing bragworthy, but certainly something fun to do, even if it was just to see what could come out the other end.
50% reduction on the size for the JPG thumbnail below, the full size pic is on dropbox here (2Mb JPEG) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ba2e7cvb72ksirv/Lagoon%20and%20Trifid%20JPG.jpg
Cheers
Chris