My first DSO

[pluto (Hugh)]

I was down at the heavily light polluted park near me in Sydney last night practicing drift aligning and I eventually got it aligned well enough to take a few short exposures. So I snapped off a bunch of the still low in the sky M42.
This is about 10 x 30 sec @ ISO2500 and about 10 x 15 sec @ ISO2500, no darks or flats, stacked in DSS. Taken with my unmodded 5DmkII + SW ED80 +EQ5.
There's also a few others from last night on my blog: www.hughca.com
Can't wait to get to some dark skies!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Good first effort,Hugh-you must feel chuffed

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks Laurie, yeah pretty happy and I can't wait to get out of the city!

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Thats pretty good for a first go Hugh, well done!

Well done indeed!

Keep em coming!

Cheers

Chris

[ourkind (Carlos)]

What a beauty! I hope I can start producing similar results soon