M45 , well half of it

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #1 25-12-2010, 03:42 PM

Hi All,

Long wait for the moon to rise last night so I attempt to point at something. At least the focus was OK. only 14 shots taken so a lot of noise in the pic, and no darks taken as I wasn't really gonna do this.

I pushed the level a bit as I could only do 10 second exposures at 1600ISO. I think I managed to get a tiny bit of nebula colour out of it.

http://waelect.com.au/mswhin63/Malco...y/index.html#2

Oh I still don't have a coma corrector.

RobF (Rob) · #2 26-12-2010, 01:57 PM

At least you can see the sky and you're having fun Malcolm. Along with that you learn something everytime you have a got at something even if your gear isn't optimal for it. I wouldn't be too worried just because you can't fit M45 in - plenty of other small objects the widefield people can't get at.

Hagar (Doug) · #3 26-12-2010, 10:06 PM

Nice clean image Malcolm. The shorter focal length helps with big targets like this. Noise doesn't seem to be to much of a problem at this image size.
Keep at it.

Bassnut (Fred) · #4 26-12-2010, 10:21 PM

Not sure what to make of the 2nd pic Malcolm. Whats going on there?.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #5 27-12-2010, 05:01 AM

Just a happy snap, taken when I had a bit of time between Jupiter and the moon. Or do you mean Orion shot?