Oh, my... Did my little camera do that.?

[2020BC]

:eyepop:
With a Canon 350D, an LXD-75 mount and an Orion 80ED scope you gets to see STUFF...

[mickoking]

WOW what a fantastic image :thumbsup: I love the colours. great shot Bill :)

[Orion]

They sure are beautiful images. Congratulations.

[Striker]

Teriffic image Bill....they are a great combo the canon 350D and 80ED.

[[1ponders]]

That is a really great shot Bill. :2thumbs: Congrats for a winning duo :party:

[Lester]

Hi Bill,

that is eye catching, love the colour.

[acropolite]

Fantastic Bill, amazing detail and colour, is the 350D modified??

[2020BC]

No, it's unmod. I'm too chicken to pull the I/R filter out....:lol: Leastwise 'til I get tired of the camera, which is yeah never going to happen if it let's me do stuff like this...:rofl: Anyhoo, it's not so bad at picking up the reds once you accumulate a shed load of data.

If the unmod camera is say five times less sensitive to H-alpha than a mod camera, all you have to do is collect five times more data. Simple.:D

[sheeny]

Wow!:eyepop: I see you have your tradesmark signature multiple diffraction spikes going. I like it... I suppose the more you stack the subtler the spikes will get...

Al.

[ballaratdragons]

Hey Bill,

What's with the "Oh, my... Did my little camera do that.?"

I wouldn't call a Canon 350D a 'SMALL' camera. Especially when I use a Toucam and a Kodak Easyshare pocket camera.

I'll swap ya :P

[avandonk]

Really nice result Bill. You will come to other side (modded) when you are ready. It is not the be all and by no means the ultimate solution. It is as you said, only saves time. The real fun is pushing the equipment we have to it's limits by learning . If we wanted to 'win' we would all have 8M mirrors and 300MPixel cooled CCD's.

Bert

[2020BC]

I find it amazing that an ordinary Joe can buy a family camera from Dick Smith and put it on a modest telescope (or even just a barn door or tripod) to get pictures of distant invisible things. When I was a kid this would have been impossible. Though film might have been an option back then there was no internet and definitely no one around to talk to and learn how to shoot it. The whole thing today is altogether extraordinary.

[ballaratdragons]

So true Bill.

It was only a few years back that we "ooooo'd" and "aaaahhh'd" at the pics that NASA sent back from space, and now we are taking pics that they were taking with Millions of Dollars 10 years ago!!!!!

You are right, it is amazing!

[jjjnettie]

Bill,
How long were your exposures?

[h0ughy]

Absolutely awesome images!:eyepop: And JJJ you should know better that to ask a guy how long he exposes;) :lol:

[tornado33]

Yes excellent work there. Weve come a long way since the old days of using Hypered film and waiting days or weeks to see if we got what we were after.
Scott

[ving]

i keep them short in the cold for obvious reasons ;)

[middy]

Significant shrinkage ?????? (One for the Seinfeld fans :lol: )

[2020BC]

100 minutes collected on three nights (so three sets of diffraction spikes).