Introduction with Orion widefield

[sweeper]

Hi Guys,

with this first post I want to introduce my self. I´m Robert and member of the Allgäuer Volkssternwarte Ottobeuren (http://www.avso.de). I´m 33 years old, married and interested in astronomy since 1999.
I´m doing astrophotography since two years. So I would say I´m still a beginner.

Last sunday I was finally able to get lights from the Orionregion with M42 and B33.
I took a modified Canon 20D. Exposertimes were 3x10min, 5x6min, 3x3min and 1x60s. Processed with fitswork and Photoshop.

http://www.robert-blasius.de/schdaff/m42b33cn.jpg

I did it with the Canon 70-200 4.0 L USM at 135mm with f5.6.

I hope you like it and please don´t be shy to give me your comments, critics and proposals.

During the shoot I took my own 40d and made a singleframed shot with the observatory and Orion getting down behind it.
So I made a collage with all the images of the orion region I ever took:

http://www.robert-blasius.de/schdaff/orioncollagewebcn.jpg

Hope you enjoy this as well.

All pics are in higher resolution on my website (http://www.robert-blasius.de/galerie/deepsky) marked with "neu".

many greetings and always the right light,
Robert

[duncan]

:welcome:Robert. Nice work!! I'm sure you will get lots of response here,
most are probably out imaging at the moment.
Hope you enjoy this site.
Cheers,
Duncan:thumbsup:

[richardo]

Yes welcome aboard Robert.
Looks like your off to a great start.
Like your collage presentation with these objects.

Also enjoyed your websites setup, appearance and navigation.

So have fun and look forward to more of your images.

All the best

Rich

[h0ughy]

nice work. not sure but your image looks like you could get a little more out of it.

[sweeper]

Duncan, Rich, David

many thanks for your warm welcome and thanks for the kudos.
As you might have seen, I have already a few images posted on my website.
So I would say I am not completly unexperienced, but still novice who is getting better. ;)

David,
i tried to make a compromise between most detailed and pretty picture.
I saw when I try more the noise is getting to much.

But I would love to see when you want to try it. I can give you the stacked and crude image as 16bit-tif.
Theres only one deal: You have to explain me what you have done. Thats for me to improve my skills in the image processing.

Again, thank you all.

[Lester]

Hi Robert, that is a very nice wide field of Orion.

All the best.

[iceman]

Beautiful image, Robert. I really like the collage. Nicely executed.

:welcome: to IceInSpace. I look forward to seeing more.

[sweeper]

Thanks Mike! :)

I will make a second collage where I will keep the orientation of the zoomed images.
I don´t know if it will work, but it´s worth to try.
I heard from several draughtsmen, this skipping orientation collage broke their hearts. :D

Many greetings,
Robert