taxman
17-01-2010, 01:36 AM
I thought I would play with my remaining gear the other night. I sold off most of it to pay for an operation for my boy. He ate his own body weight in shepherd's pie the same night after general anesthetic & sinus surgery, but that is another story.
Anyway, I thought I'd have a crack at taking a 30 sec photo through my Nexstar 6SE and was astonished to find the attached picture on my memory card (Canon 1000D at 1600 ISO and auto white balance. No flatteners or filters).
I know there is field rotation, too much noise and probably a good deal of field curvature, but I took it.
I suppose this leads to three questions:
Did I get very lucky?
Is this an 80/20 thing? By which I mean 80% of the setup & processing work is in cleaning up the last 20% of artifacts.
Is this how the slippery slope of astrophotography starts? 1 photo?
I suppose now I not only have to buy back my visual gear, but now I need <want> a whole new set of equipment...
Anyway, I thought I'd have a crack at taking a 30 sec photo through my Nexstar 6SE and was astonished to find the attached picture on my memory card (Canon 1000D at 1600 ISO and auto white balance. No flatteners or filters).
I know there is field rotation, too much noise and probably a good deal of field curvature, but I took it.
I suppose this leads to three questions:
Did I get very lucky?
Is this an 80/20 thing? By which I mean 80% of the setup & processing work is in cleaning up the last 20% of artifacts.
Is this how the slippery slope of astrophotography starts? 1 photo?
I suppose now I not only have to buy back my visual gear, but now I need <want> a whole new set of equipment...