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I thought that i would upload something different today. Another from my archives taken back in Oct 2008. I am relatively new to daytime photography, my 1st journey using a DSLR was Astrophotography. I have a modified Canon 350D. Which has had its colour filters taken out so it takes images in infra red.
To the image -
The Orion Nebula - Orion is one of the most well known and noticeable constellations in the Winters night sky, especially Orions belt and Sword. Half way down the sword, within the 2nd pair of noticeable stars is the Orion Nebula. Its a region where new stars are born, the closest star forming region to Earth, saying that its still 1,344 ± 20 Light years away from earth. 1 Light year is the equivalent of 5,878,625,373,183.608 Miles.
This image was made up of approximately 25 x 30 second images stacked with dark frames (Dark frames used to take out dark signal caused when imaging using DSLRs or CCD cameras) and then processed in PS E6.
Equipment - Modified Canon 350D mounted onto a Skywatcher 250px 10" scope on an EQ5 Mount.
Thanks for looking.
| Camera: | Canon EOS 350D |
| Lens: | Skywatcher 250px |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | The Orion Nebula |
| Username: | 
lostnspace2011 |
| Uploaded: | 2 May 2012 - 9:41 AM |
| Tags: | Deep space, General, Nebulas, Orion |
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Thank you Ray. Sadly my astrophotography has had to take a back seat for now but i still have images to share from my archive 
Will upload more in the very near future.
Mark
Thank you Linda.
Seeing the beauty of the universe through the hubble images and then through what other people have captured is what got me into Astrophotography, its as beautiful out there as it can be on earth
Thank you Bill. I had next to no knowledge when i started in Astrophotography, i sort of threw myself in at the deep end and learnt that way. Patience is a definate. Especially when you have wall to wall cloud week in week out, and your itching to get out there to image. And then of course patience when taking the subs, lots of time needed. An ideal sub length is between 6 and 10 minutes, i only managed a total of 3 minutes per sub due to alignment not being quite spot on. One day i will get back to Astrophotography, i do miss it.
Thanks Brian. You are welcome regarding my comments for your portfolio
I decided to become a full EPZ member today so now able to make this into a series of my astro work
Fabulous images, Mark. Really impressive. I look forward to viewing more.
Alun
Thanks Alun. Sadly i have no time at the moment to keep up my astrophotography, hopefully though some time in the future i will find more time and i will definately be posting more when i do
right up my street..thanks for sharing!!!
Gareth
Thank you Ann I have always said its beyond our comprehension. Do you know that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth!!
Thanks Dave.
On the Galaxy and Nebula images more subs are needed, i was disappointed personally with V4 The Whirlpool Galaxy as the data captured was very poor due to the length of each sub, i think about 25 seconds each. When i do finally get back out there i will be concentrating more on increasing the time of my subs to at least 60 seconds each, more if i can get my scope aligned properly. One thing that will hopefully be on my side next time is the fact that the local council has decided to turn off the street lights at midnight each night giving nice dark skies when its clear and there is no moon. Darker skies means i will not need as long subs as i would need if their was light pollution.....I should capture the same amount of data in 1 minute with street lights off than i would in 2 minutes with street lights on. The winter months are the time to be out with the scope/camera, longer nights. During summer, say from April to Sept you have limited actual night time. With the camera being more sensitive than the eye the camera picks up that its starting to get light between 2am and 3 am, and that its not completely dark until after 11pm. So a 3 to 4 hour window is not much.
These are utterly utterly beautiful. This is the inverse of macrophotography and just as fascinating to me. But your captures are more amazing than macros. 'Cos we "leave our planet" when we view these.
Thanks so much for taking us to these places, Mark.
And share with us more from your archives!
A
Thank you Andrew. I do have other in my archive, many many images of star clusters mainly, if you are not into astronomy or astrophotography then seeing more than one image of a star cluster can become a little repetitive. Mainly clusters just vary in size, shape, they do not have many characteristics, some open clusters do. Any other images in my archives of Nebulae/Galaxies are poor really. I was always one for trying to image the lesser known galaxies, the more distant from earth the better. This never made them spectacular images as they were small on screen. But good in a way because of their distance from Earth. And things like Nebulae in my archive being of poor quality was due to them being down low in the sky and being washed out by light pollution. I will however be doing more of this type of photography sometime in the future so its just a matter of watching this space
Thanks Ryan.
Never say never though.
And you are welcome too
I do understand you alias now.
I have only ever seen astrophotography taken on film, pretty impressive big slides at that. That was in OZ
What you achieved here is literally stellar.
Astrophotography on film Annette, that is very impressive as you would not know whether you have anything until you have your images processed, more patience definately needed taking astro images on film. Digital makes things so much easier nowadays.
Thank you for your kind comments
Mark
Thank you Loren. Fingers crossed later on in the year i will get out to do some more astro photography. We definately do not have the weather for it at the moment and sadly no time for me to get out there, it is not a good time to do any imaging though with the shorter nights
GREAT set & thanks for the explanation ........... sounds very interesting and is probably really rewarding. thanks 4 sharing!
Thank you Michael. Yes very interesting once you get into it
Haha i do not know about skill Kate. But patience yes Thank you
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