First images of bare CMOS astrophotography
Yesterday was very successful for me. For 3 days I have been trying to take a photo of M42 (senescent object). My first scope photo of it was made in September, but it way a photo by compact camera and with too many lenses (7 from my scope (so many, what for?) and #? from camera). Now I tried with bare CMOS and only 3 lenses in scope (I unscrewed some lenses). Unfortunately I live in a large city and I don't have an equatorial mount (I am going to buy it in April).
So, the results:
M42, 3.2sec*10. At last, my dream becomes reality: its “horns” appeared. 10m stars are available.
M45, 2sec*10. 10m stars are available.
“Pole zone” 20sec*6. This needs comments. Bright star is Polaris. As this region isn’t available for you and it hasn’t any DSOs, I comment only one thing: one star 13m is marked for example. This image is a model: I took it photo to see, what I’ll have with mount. Circles are the bad effect from subtracting the light pollution parasitic light.
Canon EOS 1100D, ISO6400. All images were processed in Photoshop.
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