· Get a Cloudy Nights T-Shirt · Submit a Review / Article    Click here if you are having trouble logging into the forums Cloudy Nights - Official Forums of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy Privacy Policy | Please read our Terms of Service | Signup and Troubleshooting FAQ | Problems? PM a Red or a Green Gu.... uh, User   You are not logged in. [Login] Forum Archives · Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Astrophotography and Sketching >> DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 weatherandsky Carpal Tunnel Reged: 12/27/06 Posts: 1848 Loc: Ontario, Canada Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high cloud       #2100061 - 01/06/08 01:10 AM Attachment (64 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I guess I am a little too late for the December Challenge... This was definitely an image of desperation. After a month and a half of barely any opportunities to image, I finally saw the potential for a few hours of clearish skies late Friday evening. I started imaging when there was scattered to broken thin cirrus (~0/8 to 1/8 opacity) and then 3 hours later it clouded over again. I stacked all my frames... even the poor ones, so that is probably one of the reasons why the image looks a bit soft and Alnitak is so blinding. Anyway I was just really happy to get out and use my equipment again and process something new for a change. 80mm Equinox, 3min exposures totalling 1.5hrs, unmodded Canon 40D @ ISO1600 -------------------- Kerry * Weather and Sky Photography * QHY-8, Canon 40D unmodded, Meade DSI-C Meade 12" LightBridge Astro-Tech 8in RC Celestron C6-SCT Sky-Watcher Equinox 80mm APO Omcon 4.5" Newt Celestron Skymaster 15x70 Canon 50 f1.8, 100 f2.8Macro, 100-400 f4.5-5.6L, Sigma 17-70, 18-50, 28-300 CGE, CG-5 GT Post Extras:       s58y Postmaster Reged: 12/12/04 Posts: 5510 Loc: Eastern NY Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high cloud [Re: weatherandsky]       #2100088 - 01/06/08 01:25 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Very nice HH+flame image. The blue reflection nebula below the HH really shows up well in this shot. -------------------- Hutech 30D, SBIG ST-402 autoguider SV80S, TV102iis Old camera lenses: 800mm f/5.6, 180mm f/3.4 AP900, Barndoor tracker http://www.pbase.com/s58y Post Extras:       novbabies Postmaster Reged: 06/05/05 Posts: 15678 Loc: Northern Georgia! Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high cloud [Re: s58y]       #2100235 - 01/06/08 05:01 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Kerry, swell job !! -------------------- Good Seeing! Mark Orion 12" XTi f/4.9 VERY old Edmund 6" f/8 reflector Assorted binoculars Post Extras:       Darren1968 scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 02/04/05 Posts: 778 Loc: Ontario, Canada Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high cloud [Re: weatherandsky]       #2100349 - 01/06/08 08:00 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Kerry, Persistance pays off! I also had a small window of opportunity with clear skies on Friday night but did not image. It was pretty windy and I had the same high thin clouds. The HH shows up very well even with your unmod. camera. I guess the 1.5 hrs of exposure helps a lot. Great image. Darren -------------------- GSO 8" f/4 Newt. Skywatcher 80ED Pro Meade ETX-125 5"Mak Mount: EQ6 Pro Canon 300D homepage: http://home.cogeco.ca/~dpursel ToUcam Pro II Post Extras:       D_talley scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 07/07/05 Posts: 890 Loc: Richmond VA Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high clou [Re: Darren1968]       #2100379 - 01/06/08 08:38 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Great image!! I think you should have used the cloud filter. -------------------- Dwight SBIG ST2000xm TEC 140 APO #74 Meade LX200 14 OTA Orion 12.5 DOB Celestron C8+ Celestron 102AZ Losmandy G11 Gemini Argo Navis Canon 350D self mod Hyperstar ST-4 Guider STV Guider Post Extras:       RStar scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 03/04/06 Posts: 782 Loc: New Jersey Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high clou [Re: D_talley]       #2100538 - 01/06/08 10:23 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice image Kerry! Good to see that you were finally able to get out even though the conditions were marginal. I shot a whole series of HH subs not realizing that there was a high thin cloud cover...Alnitak looked as big as a basketball Bob -------------------- Celestron CGE Orion 190 Mak-Newtonian TeleVue NP101 Orion ED80 WO 66 SD ST-4 guider Hap Modified 350XT http://www.pbase.com/bobstarzynski/astro_imaging Post Extras:       weatherandsky Carpal Tunnel Reged: 12/27/06 Posts: 1848 Loc: Ontario, Canada Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high clou [Re: RStar]       #2100662 - 01/06/08 11:31 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   THanks all! Dwight, a cloud filter would be a nice invention. I'd pay thousands for that Darren, I could hear the strong south winds but luckily my house was blocking them. Hope we get another opportunity sometime next week. Bob same thing happened to me with Alnitak. I had one image where it took up half of the frame I was thinking there was no way this image was going to turn out ok. -------------------- Kerry * Weather and Sky Photography * QHY-8, Canon 40D unmodded, Meade DSI-C Meade 12" LightBridge Astro-Tech 8in RC Celestron C6-SCT Sky-Watcher Equinox 80mm APO Omcon 4.5" Newt Celestron Skymaster 15x70 Canon 50 f1.8, 100 f2.8Macro, 100-400 f4.5-5.6L, Sigma 17-70, 18-50, 28-300 CGE, CG-5 GT Post Extras:       Andrew Welsh Carpal Tunnel Reged: 03/28/06 Posts: 2489 Loc: Rochester, NY Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high clou [Re: weatherandsky]       #2103619 - 01/07/08 04:55 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I had enough clear skies on Jan 3rd to set up my scope in my new astro-shed and do a quickie polar align. Since then it's been nothing but wall to wall clouds. Normal for this time of year. Last year I had 1 imaging night form Thanksgiving to March 1st, and two years ago I had 2. -------------------- LX200 8" classic, f/10, Meade eq. wedge, .63x FF/FR Canon 40D and 5DMkII, unmodified Canon EF 200/2L IS, 300/4L non-IS, 100/2.8 Macro, 50/1.4, 85/1.8, 35L, 24L, 16-35L and Peleng 8mm fisheye Orion Apex 102mm (4") Mak-Cass Pimped out with accessories and bling My DSLR Astrophotography Webpage and photo bucket with full equipment list Post Extras:       ChazK Pooh-Bah Reged: 11/23/05 Posts: 1453 Loc: Melbourne, Florida Re: Horsehead and Flame nebula - through high clou [Re: Andrew Welsh]       #2103768 - 01/07/08 06:15 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Great shot Kerry, esp. under the circumstances. -------------------- Tak TOA 130mm/NJP Temma2 Tak FS 60CB Canon 40D (unmodded) Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Post Extras:       Pages: 1 Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 7 registered and 5 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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