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Originally Posted by MrB
Nice work David.
Now if only I could get my hands on one.
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I was pleasantly suprised, my local camera store ordered one for me on Tuesday, it arrived Wednesday. But, after ringing around, most camera stores weren't interested in anything chasing up anything 'unusual', and 2 places I rang in Melbourne flat out told me there was no such camera.
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Originally Posted by 2stroke
Not bad  Did you have a IR filter in place? Kinida looks like you piggybacked with a 300mm lens but left the IR/UV cut on the lens, no offence. Any chance of posting a raw? |
No IR filter in the image train, only modified filter than is fitted by canon. Was using a william optics Megrez 72 with focal reducer, with an effective focal length of 345mm. I was discussing with a few of the guys here who have modified their own cameras, they mentioned that their shots are very red, almost too red, where this seems a 'pink'. other reason may be the short exposures perhaps.
I'm at a dark sky site for the next few nights, with patchy net access, but will post a raw frame next week. I also forgot to mention that there is no post processing on the image, only stacking, dark sub, and flat etc, not tweaking in PS.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Yep that is pretty good for lots of 10 second shots.
A good and promising start.
I think that is the first time I have ever seen a DSLR shoot an astrophoto at ISO6400 before! No excessive noise. Now that is impressive.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg. I only took it out of the box on thurday night, and first light was the first power up as well. I've never tried 6400 before for astro work, but this body seems quieter than my 5dII.
However, I was using my backup mount for this test, polar alignment was poor with no guiding. I'll put it on my other mount tonight, hopefully better results to follow.