SingAstro

Wow, Sedili is a good sky, Canon 60Da is a good camera, did you put a cooler on it ? what's the sensor temperature for the shots ? (just estimate or average figure also can), thanks. n.b. i am keen to know this because i had just received a Christmas present from our Sifu, the COOL BOX for Canon EOS...

Thanks for the info, will try to learn Photo Shop soonest ..

Very nice shot my friend, may i ask how u managed to get the centre core portion Not to be over exposed while maintaining the fine detail to be spread evenly, is it through Photo Shop layers ? thanks for sharing.

Wow !! Super super nice, really like the pics very much, thanks for sharing Kelvin, this is definitely a strong source of inspiration & motivation for us to push on ...

Hi Kelvin,

Please reserve it for me (i had just pm you also), thanks, peter

Thanks Kielvin, our sifu for the constant encouragements, will start to consider guiding it although meanwhile always encounter difficulty in choosing a suitable star in SG, (the red stars in LMC NGC2070 region also looks weak to use as guide stars here).

Thanks my friend, not too sure if it's more than 100% crop as just dragged a box around the better portion, the edge stars look extremely bad, it might caused by the low altitude near horizon n aggrevated by seeing n poor optics etc.. don't say my poor skill, lol...

Yeh ! good news then if it is not the lens cos need to rely on it heavily for the faster speed. The mount alignment was not very accurate, as again i did not spend time to do a 1 star drift alignment due to "kiasu mindset" (afraid that the good sky would be quickly vanished once the cloud ...

Thanks Orly & Garry, the camera used was 500-D I-R mod, mounted with 200 mm F2.8 lens with 1.4 X extension. Maximum opening at F4.0 used, hence, may need to fall back to the Meade 80 ED though, which supposed to be a APO F6.0 Triplet ? (actually i don't fully understand what all this meant as i ...

6 Dec 2012 the South Sky looks like at its best for this year, managed to collect 2 hours of ngc 2070 (Effectively approx 1 hour as using long exposure noise reduction feature of the camera), combined the 50 shots (40 X 1 mins @ISO 200 and 10 X 40s @ISO 400) produced better details but can't fully r...