gilligan
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 01/02/08
Posts: 1042
Loc: Looking for the Bridge
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Very first attempt at astrophotography,,I don't know the term "easy Object"
Whirlpool glxy. Taken 1-9-08
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Gilligan
Celestron CPC 1100 GPS "Hal 9000"
Meade DSI II
Meade LPI
And a bunch of other stuff..
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Pcenginefx
member
Reged: 07/22/08
Posts: 11
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My very first few photos using my new Meade LXD-75 SN-8AT scope and Color DSI II... the photos are pretty bad so sorry about that...
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WadeVC
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/02/05
Posts: 2799
Loc: Lodi, California,
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Why not...here is my first Astrophoto:
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Orion XTi10 f/4.7
Orion XTi8 f/5.9
Meade NGC 70mm f/10
Orion UltraView 10x50 Wide-Angle Binoculars
My Sketch Gallery
My Astronomy Blog
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
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joejoe
member
Reged: 08/04/08
Posts: 62
Loc: Switzerland
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My turn.
Mizar + Alcor + star trails taken 26-Aug-2008 with a Nikon D50, Celestron 8SE (Alt-Az), 20 sec exposure. I must have had the long exposure noise reduction turned on - the background looks very back.
Edited by joejoe (10/03/08 06:26 PM)
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Subterralien
member
Reged: 10/27/07
Posts: 56
Loc: Colorado
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I don't really consider lunar shots my first real astrophotos at this point.
This would have to be mine despite how much more I've got to learn.
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-Alex
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sanlopez
super member
Reged: 12/03/07
Posts: 149
Loc: 36 09'46.69 N, 86 46'38.26 W
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Either Jupiter or a very awesome beach ball, taken w/ my C5 and a Meade DSI from Alys Beach, FL
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Celestron GPS C925
Celestron Nexstar 5
2005 Gretsch SSLVO
Fender Custom Vibrolux
1963 Galaxie 500 XL convertible
1973 VW type 181 "The Thing"
And an absolutely wonderful wife
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havok
member
Reged: 09/20/08
Posts: 24
Loc: West Jordan, Utah
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Here you go. I guess technically this isn't my first shot as I've taken a few with just my telephoto. This was my first using the camera and telescope though. It was a nasty night for viewing, so I figured it was a good night to figure out hardware. I got an opportune break in the clouds at the right moment and took the shot. =)
Taken with a Celestron StarSeeker 130mm and a Nikon D40. I was using a Barlow 2x and 25mm eyepiece. Quite a bit of love in PS as well cleaning it up.
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
Edited by havok (10/12/08 01:52 AM)
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Stardaug
sage
Reged: 08/03/08
Posts: 210
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Hey all... I've been hanging out in the pro area trying to learn some pointers but I'm a total noob to this astrophotography stuff. Anyhow, this is one of my first attempts. Taken Oct. 11, 2008 when the gibbous moon was flooding the night sky.
* M57 Ring Nebula
* CPC800 8" SCT @ F10
* Unmodded 350XT
* Unguided
* 20 x 20sec lights
* 10 darks
* no flats
* Stacked in DDS
* Processed in PixInsight
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Shawn / Ontario, Canada
Celestron CPC800 SCT w/XLT
Ball bearing mod on AZ
Skywatcher Equinox 80mm ED 500mm refractor
Canon Rebel XT 350D unmodded
ADM Counter weight system
and a Telrad!
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Alex Post
member
Reged: 09/24/08
Posts: 38
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OK, you people are all super humans. My first astro photo is nowhere near the quality of the people above.
Still without any real astro equipment for AP, I wanted to capture M31. I can see it well through SkyMaster 15x70, but what about a picture?
This is my very first attempt using original Canon Rebel EOS that I bought in 2003. I mounted it on a cheap photo tripod and pointed straight up this morning, around 1AM CST. Standard lense that came with the camera (18-55mm). 8 exposures at 30 sec each, at 400 ISO with at f3.5. I stacked them with Registax 4.0.1.1 that I downloaded today. Then a bit more tweaking with Photoshop. I wanted to see if I can get "shape" of the galaxy extracted from the stack images. In doing that I pretty much destroyed all of the stars around it. I need to learn Registax much better, otherwise I can not seem to be able to preserve both the stars and the fuzzy objects.
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Celestron SkyMaster 15x70
Edited by Alex Post (10/19/08 02:23 AM)
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milikito
newbie
Reged: 10/20/08
Posts: 1
Loc: Dallas, TX
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Hi,
This is not my first attempt to astrophotography, but it is my first post!  I thought I could show my first and best attempts to M57, for comparison. The three on the left were taken with a Nikon D70 (unmodified) at prime focus on a Celestron NextStar 4 SE unguided. They're all single shots barely stretched with PS. First shot is 88 seconds, second 71 and third 104, from Aug and Nov last year. Yes, that was before I knew about stacking, trailing stars and about everything else! 
The last one is with my current CPC 800, still unguided, same camera and 96 exposures of 30 seconds each (48 mins). I took this one May this year.
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gabby33993
member
Reged: 10/07/08
Posts: 37
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Hello Charlie,
My name is Greg, I'm having trouble getting my pics to conform to CN. Could you help me get it right. I use Maxim DL Essentials to do processing. I've try the stretch in linar only, Log, and Gamma with the gamma value at 1. changed my format to .jpeg from .fit tried it then and it didnt't work. I went and started cropping my picture and not sure if thats right but thats what I will try this time. Thank you Greg
p.s. I got the size smaller than 800x800 but the bytes are still to large 
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gabby33993
member
Reged: 10/07/08
Posts: 37
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I finally figured it out, thanks for everyones help
Greg
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delta107
journeyman
Reged: 12/28/07
Posts: 8
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Here is one of my first tries. Advices are welcome
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Mojo.LA
member
Reged: 03/29/08
Posts: 41
Loc: Monrovia CA
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Hey, I like that. Star trails, an airplane, and city night. I'm guessing you face southeast, or you live in the southern hemisphere and face southwest.
Mojo
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mojo@whiteoaks.com
Old Town Astronomers http://www.otastro.org
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delta107
journeyman
Reged: 12/28/07
Posts: 8
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 I live in the northern hemisphere
When I got the photo scanned from the photolab it looked very yellow, I guess that the film has higher sensitivity for this colour. Also lp is a big problem
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Larry F
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 05/24/04
Posts: 1398
Loc: Westchester, NY
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I bought a discontinued Meade DSI a year ago for $99 just to have something to play with and it arrived the day the Comet Holmes brightened, so I took at shot from my suburban driveway with a Stellarvue Nighthawk on a Giro II alt-az tripod tracking with the Tech2000 GiroDriver. I think I did 10 15 second frames.
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C5 Orange Tube SCT
Orion 127 Mak
SV Nighthawk (1st generation)
CPC 800 XLT SCT
Coronado Maxscope 40
5 1/4" f/5.2 home-built Newtonian
Denk II Binos
Giro 2/Tech2000 Giro Driver/Tech2000 QuickDraw Pier
A zillion eyepieces and some more mounts
Mason & Hamlin BB 214 cm (piano)
My Gallery
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DaemonGPF
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 03/22/08
Posts: 1472
Loc: New Mexico
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Quote:
Here is one of my first tries. Advices are welcome
That is one of the coolest "first shots" I've ever seen.
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-Josh
*Orion Starblast Imaging 150mm OTA
*Orion Starblast Imaging 114mm OTA
*Meade 50mm AR short tube OTA
*Meade DSI Pro IIc
*Orion Starshoot DSCI
*CG5 mount
http://cleardarksky.com/c/AlbuqNMkey.html
My Messier Project Gallery
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mhamren
journeyman
Reged: 11/07/08
Posts: 7
Loc: So. CA, USA
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This is my first DSO photo of M33, taken with my Celestron CGE 9.25 and SBIG ST-2000XCM
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Mike
Celestron CGE 9.25
Celestron 80ED
SBIG ST-2000XCM
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
http://webpages.charter.net/mhamren/
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cncb
sage
Reged: 02/21/08
Posts: 402
Loc: Scandinavia
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Solar eclipse 2003.With no equipment at the time.2megapixel olympus compaktcamera,taped to a marine 7x50 binocular,and a welding glass taped on the front.It got me started
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Living on Earth may be expensive,but it does include an annual free trip around the sun
Sky-Watcher-120 achro (EQ3-2) f/1000mm(f/8,33)
Sky-Watcher Skymax 127 mak f/1500mm (f/11,66)
Tento 20x60
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73`s & 51`s
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Hermit
member
Reged: 10/26/08
Posts: 12
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Pretty cool looking at other's first photos! Here is my first, a wide field from my back deck with a Sony DSC-R1 camera on a tripod, single exposure 30 sec at iso 800, f2.8, and 24mm (equivelent) focal length on 10/29/08. Very, very interesting trying to process this in PS CS3. I've looked at many spectacular astro photos, but somehow it is still a thrill to capture a few of those million year old photons myself. This is Casiopia, Perseus, and Andromeda.
Full version view is here.
Best,
Rob Crockett
Edited by Hermit (11/23/08 12:02 AM)
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