Barnard's Loop and the molecular clouds of Orion

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Hi everyone


Wait what?? its been a decade since I posted an image here?? how time flies when your having fun under the stars. Thought I would show one of my latest images, Barnard's Loop and the molecular clouds of Orion.



The image was accomplished with my modded Canon 6D MK1 and Samyang 135mm/f2 lens riding on the Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount, unguided. Integration time consisted of 128 x 2-min. (4hrs 16min) iso1600.


Please send me clear skies if you like the photo


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Paul

[leon]

Hey Pual, that is a stunner, maybe a little over saturated, however a fine effort indeed, keep up the good work.

Leon

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Nice capture

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Finally! An image of Orion from a perspective I haven't seen 100 times - this month.

Thanks for sharing.

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Brilliant! Well done Paul!
I've recently acquired a star adventurer myself. Perhaps too late for Orion but I do hope to capture some of the nebulous goodness of the southern sky with a canon DSLR.

[Dave882 (David)]

Lovely image! It’s such a glorious region full of so much beauty!!

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Holy cow.... There's a lot of stuff to see up there.

I agree with Leon, the colours are a bit too saturated, which is more than made up for by the amount of space you've covered. The detail to be seen is fantastic.

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Originally Posted by leon

Hey Pual, that is a stunner, maybe a little over saturated, however a fine effort indeed, keep up the good work.

Leon

Hi Leon, thanks for your reply, yes agree, a bit saturated. I also see the IIS image upload function has taken away most of the clarity of the image during its upload.



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Paul

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Originally Posted by AstroViking

Holy cow.... There's a lot of stuff to see up there.

I agree with Leon, the colours are a bit too saturated, which is more than made up for by the amount of space you've covered. The detail to be seen is fantastic.

G'day AstroViking,


yep saturated... kinda funny really given that most of the time the problem is too short integration which gives you the opposite result, under saturated . Yeah the detail blew me away too, especially since this was my first attempt at using the new f2 lens.


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Paul

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Originally Posted by ahmed_haider

Brilliant! Well done Paul!
I've recently acquired a star adventurer myself. Perhaps too late for Orion but I do hope to capture some of the nebulous goodness of the southern sky with a canon DSLR.

Hi Ahmed_haider,


I've spent years imaging with my 12-inch reflector and often missed moonless nights at the scope because I was instead traveling in outback regions in a caravan. That prompted my purchase of the star adventurer with the idea of mobile imaging. I have to say it's one of the best and most cost effective and rewarding pieces of astro equipment I've ever owned, easy to setup, runs from batteries, easy to polar align and your imaging in less than 10 minutes setup time. Hope it all goes well for you


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Paul