First light with modded canon 300D

[seeker372011]

Unfortunately the weather gods played their usual trick allowing me no more than a few minutes each time at this target before clouding over again and again..so at the end of the night I had nowhere near the total exposure I had hoped to get

still it was first light so I cant really complain.

site: Linden, Blue Mountains
target: nebuale and clusters in the LMC (in the region surrounding NGC 2032 and friends)
scope ED 80 on autoguided CG5 mount
canon Digital Rebel (IR filter removed-Baader UV/IR filter used)
4x5 minutes at ISO 800
processed in IRIS and Photoshop

for larger images(warning large files) go to:

for crop around seagull nebula
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=303381843&size=o

for the widefield


http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=303381841&size=l

Boy, coma is a problem ! anybody can help wth suggestions on how to combat this?


This is my first ever image with a modded Canon so not all that sure about colour balance processsing etc


thanks for looking, comments . suggestions welcome
narayan

[iceman]

Excellent images Narayan! Colour balance looks good to me!

Did you mod your own camera or get a new one?

[janoskiss]

Pretty good for first shots! :eyepop: I checked out the large images but cannot see the "coma". Sure it's not just the field curvature of the ED80? Maybe a field flattener would fix it...? (see Bert's ED80 pics)

[atalas]

Nice work Narayan and congrats on the new camera.

[seeker372011]

got it used off Astromart Mike

Field curvature, eh Steve? Thanks for the tip, I'll do some checking

[Octane]

Narayan,

Beautiful first shots.

You lucky, lucky, lucky guy!

Regards,
Humayun