Horsehead and orions belt

[tornado33]

I used the 300mm flourite f2.8 lens from Bert to get the Orions Belt area. Conditions not good with cloud patches and haze, I will try and get a better image of it next time.
3x10 mins ISO400. Houghys cooled DSLR and CLS filter. 300mm f2.8 lens. I got some of those greyish globules one is between the belt stars.
Gee its a good lens, no image quality fall off at the edges at all even when wide open.
Scott

[mick pinner]

very nice image Scott, wide field images really do this area justice.

[theodog]

Nice wide field Scott.

Those grey blobs have me very interested:P. I might see what I can do if it's clear tonight.:thumbsup:

[edwardsdj]

Very nice widefield image Scott. I'd be thrilled to capture that much detail in the Flame and Horsehead :)

[jase]

Very interesting composition Scott. You've captured some interesting wisps of nebulosity. Good work.

[leon]

Nice one Scott, yep your right they are a great lens alright, well done indeed.

leon

[Ric]

A lovely widefield Scott, it shows up that whole area wonderfuly. those grey globules are very interesting, I'll have to look out for them.

Cheers

[avandonk]

It really shows how getting rid of noise gets you the really dim faint nebulosity even at f/2.8. I have only seen faint hints of the greyish things you mentioned Scott. I am still experimenting in cooling the 5DH though nowhere near as cold as the cooled camera you used.

Very nice result all round.

Bert

[tornado33]

Thnks all
I would love to repeat this under a dark sky. Teaming up the amazing lens and camera under an airglow limited sky would be unbelievable. When processing this image it was so exciting to see faint stars seemingly only 1 pixel in size when displaying the subs at full resolution. Flourite coupled with Canons workmanship is a fantastic combination.
I will have a new guidescope in the form of an 80mm refractor to replace the $80 Halleys Comet special focal brand guidescope I currently use to guide both this lens and my 6 inch SN. The rig as set up for the lens is here
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/mod350d/300mmlens.jpg
Im stoked that manually guiding this rig for just 30 mins total produced this pic from a very light polluted sky. Under the sky Theodog has, with this setup the Horsehead would be too bright!

[Alchemy]

Good stuff :thumbsup:

[theodog]

Hi All
Scott, I have one grey thingy.:D
IC243
5min + Dark
Streched
Light ring is internal reflection from moonlight.

IC243a
3x5min+dark streched
Stray light from belt star.

IC246
2x(3x5min+Dark) streched, mosaic


Hope you like;).

[tornado33]

Thanks all
Thanks for doing that Jeff. Gee the SBIG is sensitive. I will definately earmark this area as something to image from a darker sky if at all possible
Heres a full sized view. look how small the faint stars are even at the edges. Bit noisy, I do want to do more subs at a darker sky.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/orionbelt3x10minsiso400cls300mm.jpg
Scott