First Attempt With ED80

[leon]

Hi All.

Well last night i thought i would try my hand at Imaging for the first time with the ED 80, Mounted on a EQ5 Mount.

Got myself up at 1.30am, and peered outside, but the seeing was pretty ordinary, but decided to stay out anyway and do some shots of Orion.

Took about fifteen all up but actually only two survived, the rest were pretty poor, so i just combined 7 darks, and only two lights, and this is the result.

By 4.30am it was minus one, and the frost, and dew ruined some of the images, never mind it was fun.

This image is 2 exposures @ 400 ISO tracked not guided, with 7 darks combined and stacked in Image Plus, and touched up in Photoshop CS2.

I'll keep trying.

Cheers Leon

[jase]

Nice work Leon. The 5D is a 12.8 megapixel camera, have you got anything higher resolution (bigger picture)?

[spacezebra]

Beautiful shot, absolutely beautiful

Cheers Petra

[leon]

Hi Jase, yes i do have a larger image but honestly i dont know how to post it on this site, i know other people do, i seem to be limited to 150k's, other wise it wont load.

Leon

[atalas]

Great start leon ! keep at It .

[Starkler]

Its nice seeing what my old ed80 can do :)

[RB]

Another lovely shot Leon, well done.

Oh boy, minus one :eyepop:
I get shivers just thinking about it.

[Octane]

Leon,

That's a fantastic start.

With more time and practice, you can only get better.

Regards,
Humayun

[EzyStyles]

veryy nice leon from your first attempt with the ed80. great little scope that is. keep it up mate.