Trifid Nebula M20 with Canon 20DA

Striker (Tony) · #1 21-08-2005, 08:20 PM

Mike hope you dont mind me posting so many picture's.

Had a go at M20 tonight between 6:30pm and 7:30pm....one day I might even wait for the scope to cool down...lol

Tonight seeing seemed to be very good as it's the first time I could actualy see some of the milkyway.

20 x 30 second stacked images processed and resized in Photodeluxe.
SCT Prime focus on C11 at F10 FL 2800mm....unguided.

8 x ISO 800 + 8 x ISO 1600 + 6 x ISO 3200

What do you think....Its not anywhere near as good as Robby's but again I am very Happy.

davidpretorius · #2 21-08-2005, 08:39 PM

another good one, cloudy down here is tassie!!!

asimov (John) · #3 21-08-2005, 08:44 PM

Good job Striker! Looks damn good to me, well done. I'd be pretty excited if it were me.

davidpretorius · #4 21-08-2005, 08:51 PM

if mike gets kranky with this, then we all leave en mass!! i somehow doubt he will.

tornado33 · #5 21-08-2005, 09:16 PM

Exccellent, Im keen to see more images from the 20DA, the only factory made DSLR for actrophotography

Please keep posting them.
Scott

h0ughy (David) · #6 21-08-2005, 09:32 PM

Thats one excellent shot Tony! i would be very proud of that shot.

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #7 21-08-2005, 09:36 PM

nice work

Robby · #8 22-08-2005, 07:14 AM

very nice tony.
We just need to get you exposures a bit longer, & you'll be laughing at my images

Keep it up!
Cheers

iceman (Mike) · #9 22-08-2005, 07:20 AM

Quote:

if mike gets kranky with this

huh? What did I miss?

Great image Tony, I'd be very happy too!

davidpretorius · #10 22-08-2005, 07:30 AM

"Mike hope you dont mind me posting so many picture's."

I was saying that there is no way you would mind Tony posting so many pictures.

Especially of the quality that TOny has been posting.

gbeal · #11 22-08-2005, 08:49 AM

Nice Tony, keep at it. Looks pretty good to me.

ving (David) · #12 22-08-2005, 09:35 AM

this section is for pics... why would mike be angry?

great pic tony

atalas · #13 22-08-2005, 12:18 PM

Yep nice image of M20 Tony,like Robby said like to see a bit more exposure on that one and It will rock ! congrats mate your doing great with your new camera.

Louie

Striker (Tony) · #14 22-08-2005, 12:32 PM

Thanks Guy's,

I have ordered a timer Cable release and should arrive hopefully tomorrow.... model TC-80N3

http://shop.centre.net.au/?cat=00063...1DJ&it=product

I too can't wait to do some longer exposures but I need to get the guiding worked out first.

I will first try some 1 minute exposures and see how bad the star trails are.

astro_south (Andrew) · #15 22-08-2005, 12:55 PM

Great stuff Tony - your making this astophotography thing look easy (which I know it is not!)

acropolite (Phil) · #16 22-08-2005, 06:56 PM

Triffic Tony...

rumples riot · #17 22-08-2005, 07:19 PM

A mate of mine has a 20D and he is very happy with the shots he gets (terrestrial). Your images are very good Tony and the only thing that I can suggest is taking longer exposures at a lower ISO, this will allow you to go deeper than you already have. Aside from that, these are lovely images and I would be happy with these results. Welcome to the deep space club.

beren · #18 22-08-2005, 07:59 PM

Holy mackeral Tony outstanding image , top stuff , think i have to adopt the short/stacking method