anthony2302749
03-01-2006, 10:42 AM
Hi All
Usually I would celebrate my birth date on the 14<SUP>th</SUP> of February, but this year in came early. As I will be 40 this year, my wife wanted to buy me a special gift. I tossed around a few ideas such as a flight in a jet fight but decided on a new camera. So yesterday, the wife, child and I head of to Greensborough Shopping Centre and purchased a Canon EOS 350D. You would expect that the wife would hide the camera away until my birthday, but to my amazement she said that I can start playing with straight away, Wahoo!
When through the obligatory charging of the battery, reading the Instruction manual, taking photos of the wife, the child, the cats and trees, loading of software, seeing if I had the necessary parts so that I can attach the camera to my scope etc.
It was also such a beautiful day in Melbourne yesterday I knew I should take advantage of the good weather. By time the sun had set I had pretty well worked out how to use the software which came with the camera, so out to the observatory for some fun. My first target for the night was, you guessed it, M42. After playing around with ASA value I decided on 800 ASA and did a run of 10 images @ 30sec (total integrated time of 5min).
Stacked the images with Registax and process the resulting image with Photoshop. I need to crop the image some what so that I could up load the file to the internet, so the final result looks a bit grainy.
http://www.asv.org.au/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=42&page=view&catid=72&PageNo=1&key=0&hit=1 (http://www.asv.org.au/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=42&page=view&catid=72&PageNo=1&key=0&hit=1)
If you are wondering the image was taken through an ED80 at prime focus piggyback on top on an LX200, no auto guiding was used.
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Usually I would celebrate my birth date on the 14<SUP>th</SUP> of February, but this year in came early. As I will be 40 this year, my wife wanted to buy me a special gift. I tossed around a few ideas such as a flight in a jet fight but decided on a new camera. So yesterday, the wife, child and I head of to Greensborough Shopping Centre and purchased a Canon EOS 350D. You would expect that the wife would hide the camera away until my birthday, but to my amazement she said that I can start playing with straight away, Wahoo!
When through the obligatory charging of the battery, reading the Instruction manual, taking photos of the wife, the child, the cats and trees, loading of software, seeing if I had the necessary parts so that I can attach the camera to my scope etc.
It was also such a beautiful day in Melbourne yesterday I knew I should take advantage of the good weather. By time the sun had set I had pretty well worked out how to use the software which came with the camera, so out to the observatory for some fun. My first target for the night was, you guessed it, M42. After playing around with ASA value I decided on 800 ASA and did a run of 10 images @ 30sec (total integrated time of 5min).
Stacked the images with Registax and process the resulting image with Photoshop. I need to crop the image some what so that I could up load the file to the internet, so the final result looks a bit grainy.
http://www.asv.org.au/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=42&page=view&catid=72&PageNo=1&key=0&hit=1 (http://www.asv.org.au/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=42&page=view&catid=72&PageNo=1&key=0&hit=1)
If you are wondering the image was taken through an ED80 at prime focus piggyback on top on an LX200, no auto guiding was used.
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