A beginner photograph of Orion

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A beginner photograph of Orion

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Hi everyone,

I took this photograph back in Nov 2007, and I only recently processed it. It was taken from my house. Sky was clear with sporadic clouds.

Taken using Canon EOS350D, 50mm f1.8, 5 images of 1.6s ISO800. One of my very first widefield astrophotographs.

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Heh that's a very pleasing image... nice! :)
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That's a very good first attempt...!
But you may want to crop the bottom light-polluted cloud to reduce any distraction from the main attraction.
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Hi,
Nice Orion... :) Hope to see more image coming up... :)

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nice work Guangyan! It has a 3D look to it. see you soon!
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nice!
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Post by Clifford60 »

Great work for a first timer.
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very nice!
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Better than my first one! [smilie=info.gif]
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Post by loneoceans »

Thanks everyone for your kind comments! I did a quick check of the photo with Stellarium and I found a corresponding magnitude 9.95 star.
Yes I'll be going for the Mersing trip so I hope to learn a lot more about astrophotography and image processing. At the moment, I working on making a tracker for my camera. Not sure if it'll be in time for the trip though but I can either try to find a piggyback, or just use other methods! I'd personally very much like to do the Andromeda Galaxy, perhaps a widefield first, but need a tracker for it.

I have a telescope, but it's a very cheap one. Will try to post more photos. Thanks again everyone :) Hope the skies clear. It's cloudy tonight again.
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