Orion Nebula, 12 Images Stacked

Colorado CJColorado CJ Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
edited March 15, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
Here is my first "real" astrophoto using my new barn door tracking mount I built.

This image was taken with the Tair 3 300mm Lens set at F5.6. This image is a composition of 12 seperate 10 second images staked using Registax software, them post processed in Photoshop. The images were shot at 1600 ISO.

This is only 12 images, usually, you can take up to 60 images to get the most definition and nebulosity, getting a much "deeper" image. I was excited to start processing, so I only took the 12 images :D

My tracker wasn't aligned exactly right, so some of the stars are a little oval. I need to buy a polar scope so that I can align the tracking mount just right, I just aligned it by taping a laser pointer to the mount and pointing it towards Polaris.


Well, enough talk, here is the photo. I can see how this can get very addicting!

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Orion-2 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Comments

  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2012
    Nice result thumb.gif I'd take that alignment you got too :D
    Michael
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,243 moderator
    edited March 15, 2012
    Very nice! Thanks for posting the pic and explaining how you got it. I'd love to see more astronomy shots in the forum.
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
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