Orion 9/12

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 11-12-2010, 09:52 PM

A very quick Orion.
Only 3x5 minutes, shot during the last sucker hole of Thursday night.

Canon 550D
Canon Nifty 50 @ iso 400 and F3.5
Darks taken, no flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS3.

15 minutes......it's only a small taste and it's made me hungry for more.

I'm starved for data.

RB (Andrew) · #2 11-12-2010, 09:56 PM

Lovely shot, great star colours !

leon · #3 11-12-2010, 10:02 PM

yep, i agree nice shooting JJJ.

Leon

jenchris (Jennifer) · #4 11-12-2010, 10:04 PM

Time to go prime!
Good shot - colours are lovely

DavidU (Dave) · #5 11-12-2010, 10:25 PM

Very nice ! I can see a hint of Barnard's Loop.Very cool !

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #6 11-12-2010, 10:28 PM

yeah, it surprised me too David.
Thanks for looking everyone.

anthony.tony · #7 11-12-2010, 10:58 PM

Lovely--

h0ughy (David) · #8 11-12-2010, 11:07 PM

nice teaser JJJ, only just starting to clear here but in the city lights its hard to see that much

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #9 12-12-2010, 12:49 AM

I love my darkish skies.

alan meehan (Alan) · #10 12-12-2010, 01:07 AM

If you get some clear skies jjj thats going to one lovely wide field orion
good luck
AL

strongmanmike (Michael) · #11 12-12-2010, 07:13 AM

Hey, I have just come back from an allnighter and earlyier in the night I was showing a guest of the property owners this under dark skies, this shot would have been a useful image to show him so he could get the hunter bit

Mike

multiweb (Marc) · #12 12-12-2010, 09:11 AM

Really like that one. Great colors and spot on focus.

tried to do the barnard loop last night in Ha. Similar framing. Hope it comes as good as this.

RickS (Rick) · #13 12-12-2010, 10:27 AM

Wow!

batema (Mark) · #14 12-12-2010, 12:50 PM

Very nice JJJ. Please bring on some fine weather.

wasyoungonce (Brendan) · #15 13-12-2010, 12:13 PM

You know what..I love this pic...I keep coming back to look at it.

Just love the FOV & colours.

I cannot wait to try something like this myself!

DarkRevenge (Luis) · #16 13-12-2010, 12:28 PM

Love that image, jjj. Betelgeuse has always been my favourite star, and Orion my favourite constellation.
Looking forward for more images

Cheers, Luis.

jase (Jason) · #17 13-12-2010, 02:05 PM

Very cool. Enjoyed the soft colour rich stars emphasising the constellation. Well done JJJ.

niko · #18 13-12-2010, 02:11 PM

Gorgeous image jjjjjjjjjj....

there's certainly something magical about widefields.

I also love it because it highlights nicely the canoe that northern Australian Aboriginal people see in this constellation rather than orion as warrior. The 3 stars of the "belt" are 3 brothers in the canoe and the nebula is the fish trailing on a line beside.

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/Ab...es/djulpan.htm

DarkRevenge (Luis) · #19 13-12-2010, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niko

Gorgeous image jjjjjjjjjj....

there's certainly something magical about widefields.

I also love it because it highlights nicely the canoe that northern Australian Aboriginal people see in this constellation rather than orion as warrior. The 3 stars of the "belt" are 3 brothers in the canoe and the nebula is the fish trailing on a line beside.

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/Ab...es/djulpan.htm

When I was younger I used to see a dagger there

Cheers, Luis.

Screwdriverone (Chris) · #20 14-12-2010, 09:32 PM

Thats a ripper Jeanette,

Can even see the flame and the HH in the middle.

Lots to look at, spectacular framing, thanks for posting.

Cheers

Chris