Orion

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Hi!

After a long time of abstinence from astronomy I made my first pic with the modified Canon 350d.
With the Canon 50mm f/1,4 I took a picture of Orion.

This area is rearly a hot one. Here you can see the full pic (1700x1100)

http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilde..._Loop_full.jpg
(5x200s and 2x70s,ISO 800,f/2,5)

It was nice for me to come back to this forum. Many great pics!


cheers

werner

[gregbradley]

Beautiful image.

Greg.

[DJDD]

that's great.
i like the rich field of stars.

[Liz]

wow... so many stars - beautiful.

[RB (Andrew)]

Lovely shot !
Even got the Witch Head Neb !

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by RB

Lovely shot !
Even got the Witch Head Neb !

So he has!! Had to go back for a second gulp!!
Nice work Werner.

One thing though - looks like you've had to do a bit of noise reduction on the image - you described the area as "hot".Would that be fair or am I being pedantic?
I find higher iso settings just don't work so well on the shorter FL lengths - resulting images are very noisy.
I intend to try this same shot soon with my 50mm f1.8 so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

If I could get a shot up to the standard of this one I would be very happy though.
Cheers
Doug

[Ric]

A wonderful image Werner.

Very nice work indeed.

[AlexN]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!! 10 points to you good sir! a fantastic image!

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

A wonderful perspective Werner, and one not often seen. You've done a great job - and with the bare essentials of astrophotography. To pick up B33 and the loop, , M42, Flame and Witchhead all in one frame and with such clarity is remarkable. Great effort.

[multiweb (Marc)]

How cool is that? That's awesome. You've captured even the faintest details. Top shot.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Excellent capture. So much detail to look at.... Amazing.

Well done.

[Ian Robinson]

That's a very nice image .... I'd forgotten how good a widefield a 50mm f/1.4 can do - I've a 50mm f/1.2 on my old Minolta XD5.

Wonder if there are Minolta XD series to Canon EF adapter rings out there somewhere ?

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Ian Robinson

That's a very nice image .... I'd forgotten how good a widefield a 50mm f/1.4 can do - I've a 50mm f/1.2 on my old Minolta XD5.

Wonder if there are Minolta XD series to Canon EF adapter rings out there somewhere ?

http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/why.html just for you Ian.

Fantastic shot Werner

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Hi,
thank you for your nice answers!

Doug, you are right. I will do it a 2nd time with a lower ISO setting an more pics for stacking.

cheers

werner