M42, M45, The Horsehead and Star Trails

[joachim.ong]

Hi all, sharing my images from recent family holiday to Thailand. Finally got the chance to image through my newly acquired 70ED from one of our fellow members here. Total exposure after stacking is about 1 hr for each. Taken from Koh Samet, quite a bit of pollution haze in the sky when I was there, transparency was not exactly good.
Comments welcomed! Still sort of a greenhorn to imaging... Ok maybe not anymore now ;)


Messier 42 & 43 by joachimong, on Flickr


Messier 45 (Pleiades / Seven Sisters) by joachimong, on Flickr


Horsehead and Flame Nebulae by joachimong, on Flickr
Forgot to remove my diffraction mask when I started imaging this. Really beat myself hard one hour later when I found out. More than half the subs had the mask so image could have been much better


And here is a startrail I shot when I was in Perth last month for a school trip. Did'nt even use a proper dslr tripod!

Startrails at Gin Gin Discovery Centre by joachimong, on Flickr

[Airconvent]

Nice shots joachim...thanks for sharing. You managed to capture the horsehead which is quite a challenging object. Maybe because the year of the horse is coming, its making itself more prominent!

[Gary]

Beautiful! Fruitful trip! Thanks for sharing.

[orly_andico]

Congratulations Joachim.

If I recall the scope and flattener came from me... those images are much much better than anything I got out of that gear. It's good to see that you're putting it to much better use than I ever did..

[cataclysm]

They are beautiful!

[joachim.ong]

Thanks for all the compliments

@orly_andico yep scope came from you. Not using the autoguider yet as my pc doesnt seem to want to connect to my CG-5. Havent bothered to troubleshoot yet haha.

[PETER LOO]

Hi Joachim, all objects very well taken, good contrast, great amount of fine details & i like the deep & natural color particularly.