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Its the Orion Nebula. The gas surrounding the stars are Hydrogen gas excited by the host stars. That makes the 'light spreading'.

VinSnr: Guide for 5min? Sad to say, i have done any serious drift alignment training for myself. But will do soon!

Charlie

No, Mcgill is not a shop in Lucky Plaza. Check them out at www.mcgill.com.sg. From what i know, TP doesnt have any Astronomy Club. So Lone ranger, planning to start one in your school?

BTW, im from NP. =)

Wonder should i really ditch my CP4500 and go for a DSLR....
But an impressive image nonetheless.

Charlie

Do what the blokes in US do!

Have a spare of everything Televue and get a PREMIUM binoviewer!

Envious,
Charlie

Of course, its weather permitted. =p

Normally, we can see stars up to mag. of 4-6 on very good seeing.
For now we are able to see the constellations from Lyra to Orion region.

Charlie

it is due to some mistyped link:
Example: http://foums.singastro.org/XXXXX

Notice the forums is spelt wrongly, just insert the 'r' will do. Else, Vincent Snr will like to hardcode it in for us?

Charlie

Well, i'll recommend u to start off with binoculars if you have'nt grasped much about the night skies. A good pair of binos will really turn out to be an eye-pleaser and a good learning tool. For a student like you, why not get a binos first and familiarize yourself to the night skies, then when you...

Any chance of a Cosmology sub-forum?? But i guess not much will be willing to participate though. A whopping percentage of fellow SingAstro members are more to the practical side than to the theoritical...

Charlie

WOw!

The results speaks for themselves. ArgH! Gonna ditch my CP4500 for THE 300D! Will keep a look for your results on longer exposures! maybe 30mins or more?

Charlie
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