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Loving this it tell ya!

This one took me hours to set-up, photograph and process, but I am extremely happy with my little ED80 and Canon 400 D set-up.

Lagoon Nebula 17 minutes at F/7.5 ISO800 Darks and offsets removed blah blah. Processed with Deep sky stacker.

Manually tracked using an illuminated reticule on fork mounted C11 (polar aligned on an equatorial wedge)with the camera on the ED80, piggybacking on top.

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Hi, the details are pretty good with just 17 minutes exp! Love your skies Bro!
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Post by weixing »

Hi,
Is this a single 17 minutes exposure?? It's really look good!!

Anyway, your sky must be very dark to get a single 17 minutes exposure without sky glow shown!! Nothing can beat a good dark sky!!

Happy imaging and have a nice day.
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Post by aquillae »

really nice shot.
I dont think it's a single 17mins exposure though, i'm pretty sure it's from a couple sub-exposures.
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Post by Airconvent »

Nice image, Barry! I like the colours better than the usual all-red ones...
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Post by klutz »

This is really nice! :shock:

How big is the original file? Can post it on a link somewhere? Would like to see the big big big version
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Post by mrngbss »

Manually tracked photo IS an amazing feat!! wow!
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Post by Barry »

aquillae wrote:really nice shot.
I dont think it's a single 17mins exposure though, i'm pretty sure it's from a couple sub-exposures.
You are correct, the total exposure is 17 minutes. Each guided shot was around 171 seconds.

Details here, under Nebulae thumb
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