m42

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

It's my first attempt at manual guiding.
I used my Sigma 70-300 lens on the Canon 20d, piggy backed on the 5" refractor. The Gstar was used to guide through the refractor, using Startarg.
1x 5min 14sec
1x 30sec
Photoshop was used to stack and enhance.

On closer look though, the guiding isn't all that hot. Oh well, practice practice practice.

[jase (Jason)]

Well done JJJ.
Manual guiding...thats crazy talk! Nice result for the limit data.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

One night when I'm not shooting through sucker holes, I'm going to take my time and nail this baby.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Nice M42 JJJ but i cant help with every type of this image to keep looking at the running man.
Great work....cheers Kev.

[h0ughy (David)]

nice one JJJ

[AlexN]

JJJ!! Niiiiice!

Good to see someone in SEQ is getting some imaging time in!

[Hagar (Doug)]

I have to agree with Jase...... Manual..... Hell what a way to get cramp. Nice image though. Well done.

[Ric]

A fine effort JJJ, well done.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by Hagar

I have to agree with Jase...... Manual..... Hell what a way to get cramp. Nice image though. Well done.

Not so much cramp as double vision and eye strain.

Two important lessons I've learned using the Gstar for guiding.
1. Don't guide on hot pixels.
2. High integration may give you lots of stars to choose from, but the 2 second delay between what you see and what you get, leads to one very dodgy final image.

[TrevorW]

Good effort on a hard object