First photo w/ new scope :) NGC104

[jakerich154 (Jake)]

This was my first ever attempt at taking a picture of anything in the sky (except for the moon ). I edited it on photoshop to get more stars to show and also adjusting the curves and levels. I was using my new Celestron CPC 800 , which i love and i think this is an alright shot for my first time. Its about 11 minutes worth of exposure stacked in DSS.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Nice one Jake, you got a lot of stars there. Well done on your first DSO

[Larryp (Laurie)]

That's excellent, Jake! You must be really chuffed with it.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Great start Jake!

What were your inividual exposure length? I'm presuming one to two minutes.

Cheers,

Justin.

[jakerich154 (Jake)]

Thanks for the positive feed back guys!

I actually think my individual exposures were about 10 secs each, about 130 altogether, there was some cloud on the night so had to use shorter exposures.

Jake

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Congratulations Jake, welcome to deep sky imaging the real but dark art (get it? dark..?..in the dark,he he.... ) of astroimaging - enjoy your journey

Mike
aka comedian...not

[Ross G]

Great looking first photo Jake.

Good luck.


Ross.