Orion Wide Field

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

G’day everyone,

Was able to get some subs this morning of Orion, pretty happy with how it came out.
I reckon a few more hours and this would be quite nice.

Camera: Canon 350d

Lens: Sigma 70-300 at 90mm f8, (don’t recommend using this lens for astrophotography, it’s really bad with CA even at f8!)

Subs: 38x2 min at iso 800

No darks.

Cheers
Jo

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Nice one....got everything in that....nice and wide.

Flash....

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Nice image!

[Chris85 (Chris)]

Great image! Love how you can see a tiny Horsehead

[Lee]

That's really very good - horsehead, flame, running man, M42, Barnard's loop - they are all there... focus and processing look great too....

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Good image Jo!

Good focus, and colour balance.
Barnard's loop stands out well.

Cheers,

Justin.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Wow, very nice indeed! No CA as far as I can see. Is there is a brighter rectangular patch near Alnilam (centre star of the belt)?

Cheers,
Cam

[carlstronomy (Carl)]

Really nice shot Jo, I don't have the scope or stand alone camera for wide field shots so I like to look when ever the chance comes around.

Thanks

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Very nice Jo. Not an easy part of the sky to image. That's a nice wide field. CA is minimal and doesn't really matter.

Take darks...

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That turned out really well Jo.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

Nice one....got everything in that....nice and wide.

Flash....

Cheers

Originally Posted by Larryp

Nice image!

Thanks Laurie

Originally Posted by Chris85

Great image! Love how you can see a tiny Horsehead

Originally Posted by Lee

That's really very good - horsehead, flame, running man, M42, Barnard's loop - they are all there... focus and processing look great too....

Thanks Lee, I made a quick paper Bahtinov mask last night, so that helped out with focusing. This is the first time I've been able to get Barnard's loop before.

Originally Posted by LightningNZ

Wow, very nice indeed! No CA as far as I can see. Is there is a brighter rectangular patch near Alnilam (centre star of the belt)?

Cheers,
Cam

Thanks mate Yeah I was able to clean up the CA fairly well. There seems to be a line that go's across the image just above Alnilam, don't know what it is.

Originally Posted by carlstronomy

Really nice shot Jo, I don't have the scope or stand alone camera for wide field shots so I like to look when ever the chance comes around.

Thanks

Thanks Carl, the camera was attached to a tripod head that was G clamped the side of my horse shoe mount.

Originally Posted by rcheshire

Very nice Jo. Not an easy part of the sky to image. That's a nice wide field. CA is minimal and doesn't really matter.

Take darks...

Thanks Rowland, Yeah I should have taken some darks and I couldn't wait another hour.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

That turned out really well Jo.

Cheers