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I started to do AP about 5 yrs ago, using a 135mm (focal length) Canon NFD lens (no telescope) attached to an integration camera (security camera) in the beginning.

Hi Orly, thanks :) will experiment with that too .. meanwhile, i cheat a little by using Gaussian blur Mask 1 time to smooth out the background and then pulled the background darker so that the noise becomes less obvious to the eyes [smilie=beaten.gif] & lastly cropped, it looks like this, https...

Thanks Remus , now still struggling with the Read out noise, not sure how to go about reducing it without changing the cam ..

Hi Ger, i saw your M42 from Mersing, very nice, can see the Running man distinctly. Pertain to your question on filters for SG Sky, i find Celestron UHC filter very effective for Red spectral Nebula, although read from somewhere you need at least 100 mm aperture to use it, but i find it okay with my...

Thanks Ivan, one word to describe 27 Feb 2015 South West view from Bedok South field, shiok uh ! [smilie=admire.gif] , i made 25 captures ranging from 14s to 120s, you can see that even the 14s is able to get something out of it (but looks like the cluster, not sure), as for the 120s, it is over exp...

Thanks Kochu it does look a bit like the Rhinoceros Beetle though lol ..

Thanks Airconvent, yah :) , i must admit that i was quite excited to image this object since about 5 years ago with security cam for a start, as it resides in the LMC, which is quite challenging most of the time. The spider like core is now very bright once the cloud is blown away, saw it on 27th &a...

Hello Charlie, it is the field facing Block 163 Bedok South Road, has a clear fov for Southern Sky, has quite a high level of light pollution, only good for practice shots as you noticed from my pics the green patch caused by l.p. very difficult to remove. Once gain competency, we may have to visit ...

Caught this spider at Bedok South on Friday night, the object is bright all the while, but is always covered up by cloud due to it low lying Dec of approx -69 deg. Since the weather is now getting better, it should be easily captured using 300 mm focal length onwards when the cloud band becomes thin...

Hi yyD70s, Welcome to Singastro Community :) as i have little knowledge on the above, may be some other fellow Singastrorian can help ? If remember correctly, Dave and looyaa had used the Vixen Polarie instead and had produced some very nice results (in Nebula, Comets etc), so may be you would like ...