M42 with Canon 350D

[Lert]

Hi all,

My first post on these forums and my first asto photograph.

Taken with a Canon 350D with Canon 70-200mm f4/L mounted on a modified celestron 8 fork mount.. 12 x 30sec, 200mm, ISO400, f4 and Registax. I've a long way to go and learning heaps from this forum. Can hardly wait to get a telescope..

Cheers
Graham

[RB]

Welcome to IIS Graham.

:welcome:

Great start for your first astro image.
Well done.
The 70-200mm f/4 looks like a great lens for astro work.

[Phil]

keep up the good work
Phil

[leon]

Nice effort Graham for first attempt, now that your hooked, there will be no stopping you.

Cheers leon

[h0ughy]

well done. Make sure your bank account is very very healthy, because you are going to get hooked really badly after a few more of those. Nice work.

[EzyStyles]

welcome to IIS Graham. thats a great first astro image. keep em coming. Following what houghy said, it is so truee! at first i thought the max i will spend on astro equipment is $600 and nothing more ... but...... :P

[Lert]

Thanks for the nice comments and the encouragement chaps.. A few things I have to work on are getting better aquainted with Registax, doing something about the mount which runs about 1.5% fast and learning about dark frame subtraction.. all in good time.

Cheers

[seeker372011]

Lert

if you are using Registax you are probably capturing as jpegs which is very "lossy" format. You are much better off capturing as a RAW file..but then you will need some software to process . IRIS is free-comes with an intimidating front end but works wonderfully and you can get an excellent step by step guide here :


http://www.saratogaskies.com/

(grab the cookbook print it off and you'll never look back :) )

[Lert]

Thanks Seeker, plenty of valuable information there to keep me going for a long time..

I use RAW for normal photography but took my images in JPG to simplify the procedure since I'm just starting. I have the new Adobe Lightroom program but I guess from what you are saying, IRIS takes the raw images directly..

Cheers, Graham

[Ric]

Well done Lert, that's a great first image with many more to come.
Looking forward to seeing them.

Cheers