Horsehead and Flame

[traveller (Bo)]

80 x 120 sec exposures with FLT 110 and Canon 1100D.
Fair bit of gradient due to heavy light pollution from inner burbs of Melbourne.
I had to keep the sub short due to the summer heat.
Anyway, first post in the Deep Sky section (I decided to promote myself from the Beginner section )
Comments welcome
Bo

[jeelan (Jeelan)]

great picture mate, the tone looks really good.

cheers
Jeelan

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Nice one Bo. The Canon DSLR has performed well. I think you have met the challenges of light pollution and summer heat quite well.

[glend (Glen)]

Nice image Bo. Now if that Canon had a cold finger installed you would not have to worry about the heat....
Check out Rowland's recent publication of a cold finger primer.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

A really nice and quite natural result Bo, well done, especially from light polluted skies!

Mike

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Aye, well done.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

That looks really good Bo. Particularly impressive given that it was done under light-polluted skies.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Awesome shot Bo!

[traveller (Bo)]

Originally Posted by jeelan

great picture mate, the tone looks really good.

cheers
Jeelan

Thanks Jeelan.

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Nice one Bo. The Canon DSLR has performed well. I think you have met the challenges of light pollution and summer heat quite well.

Just, had to play with ISO and exposure times to balance exposure and noise. Ended up with 1600 at 120 secs.

Originally Posted by glend

Nice image Bo. Now if that Canon had a cold finger installed you would not have to worry about the heat....
Check out Rowland's recent publication of a cold finger primer.

Funny you say that Glen, I just picked up a 1200D and have chatted to Rowland to get some assistance to make it a full spectrum cold finger mod. Stay tuned...

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A really nice and quite natural result Bo, well done, especially from light polluted skies!

Mike

Cheers Mike. Love my FLT 110.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Aye, well done.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Retrograde

That looks really good Bo. Particularly impressive given that it was done under light-polluted skies.

I used CLS CCD clip on filter, very impressed with its performance.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Awesome shot Bo!

Thanks Kev.

[RickS (Rick)]

A bit noisy but it doesn't really detract from the image. A great result!