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Originally Posted by Irish stargazer
That's really nice. 
I find with my 50mm lens that the skyglow washes out all the detail in the nebulosity. I must be doing something wrong. A wider lens helps a bit.
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I have pretty dark skies that help out a lot
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Originally Posted by JZ
Hi Jo, very nice shot! Lots of interesting objects there. Just shows what you can do with a std camera lens and lots of time. How come a Nikon lens on a Canon camera? Obviously it comes to focus OK. Is it just a simple lens adapter. Some like my Minolta-Eos adapter will not focus to infinity.
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I used the Nikon lens as its the only one I have, it comes to focus perfectly
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Originally Posted by adi
thats nice capture... would you please explain your setup? i have Nikon DSLR and i am buying 8" Dob next week. would you please guide me what all i need to capture such images? i red so many places that i need Canon for low such photos as Nikons are bad when it comes to noise reduction?
please help
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My set up is: tracking mount, cooled modified dslr, 85mm camera lens.
Your Nikon should be fine, all you need is a tracking mount and some dark skies.
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Originally Posted by raymo
Hi again Jo, beautiful work, but I am curious as to why you used f/8.
Unless the lens has problems, you could have used f/4 and ISO 400,
or alternatively f/2.8 and ISO 200, or f/4 1600 and 40 sec subs,
or f/2.8 and 20sec subs. Having said all that, you'll probably shoot me
down in flames.
Here's to many more fine images.
raymo
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Good question, because I removed the IR/UV filter from the camera and didn't replace it with anything, I would pick up a much larger part of the spectrum than the lens could acutely focus, but by stopping it down to F8 it was able to get a sharper focus.
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Originally Posted by dutch2
Gorgeous shot, beautiful detail.
Well done. |
Thanks!
