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Old 22-10-2012, 04:58 AM
loki78 (Jon)
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First Orion and other test subjects

Finally got around to shooting my first nebula. Picked the easiest of targets of course, I know the colour is a bit iffy but it'll do for now. Pretty pleased with my first attempt to be honest. The 2nd and 3rd photos were things i was experimenting with to see if i could see anything really, so I nailed my first galaxy and 2nd nebula (albeit very rough) but was just really glad I got something.

Orion was 46x50sec at 800iso, 10X50sec at 1260iso, 30 darks no flats.
Sculptor was 20x90sec at 1600iso, 10 darks no flats. (just a test really to see if i could have something show up)
Alnitak region was 10x50sec at 3200iso, 5 darks no flats (this was meant to be 50lights but my power pack went flat after 10 but still this was just a test to see if i could see it at all so to get any detail in this region, i'm happy.)

Still learning my processing obviously but you gotta start somewhere.

All taken on an EQ6/SW ED100 unguided with a Canon 60Da with the Astronomik CLSCCD clip filter.
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