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[matty84 (Matthew)]

Hi to all,
I would like to make a quick introduction as i am new to this site.
My name is Matthew Mason i live in Langwarrin Vic (40km sth Melb) and am 27 years old. I have been interested in the Universe from a child but untill recently have never owned a telescope, so i thought why not start taking photos of the thing i love. So for nearly a year now (bout 11mnths) i have gone down the long (but fun) astrophotography road and from that, i believe i have found somthing that i will do for the rest of my life.

For the past year as i have browsed the net trying to learn about astro imaging i came across ice in space and it seemed like a great place to learn and mingle with like minded people, straight of the bat i would like to thank all you veterans out there who help us beginners along the way it makes our life ALOT easier , and thankyou to Mike Salway and Terry Mohan and anyone else for putting together this great site.

I will put a link at the bottom to my photos (hope it works) , i have only uploaded them 2day on flickr so there is no information on exposure times etc.. over the next few weeks i will add info to the photos i know about, some of the early ones i have no idea about (didnt keep track of things).
I have recently upgraded my equipment to:
William Optics FLT 110, orion short tube refracter for guiding
atik11000 osc, orion autoguider
eq6 mount
the most recent images are made using the above equipment while the early ones I used Eq5 mount, nikon d300 , ed120 scope that i got all second hand.
Most of my images are from home in light polluted skys bar 1 and are roughly in order from most recent to my very first photos, this year i will venture more to dark skys. Hopefully there is an improvement as it goes up as i learn a little from each one, I am very new and very much a beginner on astrophotography so any help would be muchly appreciated.

Thankyou and clear skys to all
Matt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72231765@N06/ hope this works

[JetDragon (Dave)]

Beautiful work Matthew - gives me something to aspire to in the future

thanks for sharing

Dave

[irwjager (Ivo)]

That's a brilliant body of work Matthew and an amazing progression in just 11 months. Nicely processed, even the more challenging ones with their typicial dynamic range challenges. I have very little to comment on.
Off to the Deep Space section with you!

Cheers,

Ivo

Originally Posted by matty84

Hi to all,
I would like to make a quick introduction as i am new to this site.
My name is Matthew Mason i live in Langwarrin Vic (40km sth Melb) and am 27 years old. I have been interested in the Universe from a child but untill recently have never owned a telescope, so i thought why not start taking photos of the thing i love. So for nearly a year now (bout 11mnths) i have gone down the long (but fun) astrophotography road and from that, i believe i have found somthing that i will do for the rest of my life.

For the past year as i have browsed the net trying to learn about astro imaging i came across ice in space and it seemed like a great place to learn and mingle with like minded people, straight of the bat i would like to thank all you veterans out there who help us beginners along the way it makes our life ALOT easier , and thankyou to Mike Salway and Terry Mohan and anyone else for putting together this great site.

I will put a link at the bottom to my photos (hope it works) , i have only uploaded them 2day on flickr so there is no information on exposure times etc.. over the next few weeks i will add info to the photos i know about, some of the early ones i have no idea about (didnt keep track of things).
I have recently upgraded my equipment to:
William Optics FLT 110, orion short tube refracter for guiding
atik11000 osc, orion autoguider
eq6 mount
the most recent images are made using the above equipment while the early ones I used Eq5 mount, nikon d300 , ed120 scope that i got all second hand.
Most of my images are from home in light polluted skys bar 1 and are roughly in order from most recent to my very first photos, this year i will venture more to dark skys. Hopefully there is an improvement as it goes up as i learn a little from each one, I am very new and very much a beginner on astrophotography so any help would be muchly appreciated.

Thankyou and clear skys to all
Matt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72231765@N06/ hope this works

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent work Matt, congrats!

[midnight (Darrin)]

Lovelly work Matt.

The FLT110 is a nice scope. Too bad it's F7 but none the less I find mine lovelly to work with.

Darrin...

[CarlJoseph (Carl)]

Beautiful pics Matt. Well done.

Only wish I could get that good in 11 months.

[matty84 (Matthew)]

Thank you everyone for the kind comments, it may only be 11 months worth but my Mrs will tell you i have already put 2 years of time into it lol. And Darrin yes i am also very happy with the scope even thou i can not compare it many other scopes at this time, the only problem i had was finding connections so my field flattener could hook up to my atik camera and also to be the right distance away, in the end i had to get a piece of ally made to fit everything properly.
Thanks again Matt