M57 Ring Nebula - yesyes observatory first light

[yesyes]

I have finally managed to set everything up and take my first image in my observatory

This is M57 taken on 30 July 2015

Orion Optics UK SPX250 scope on HEQ5

Canon EOS 1000D unmodded, Baader MPCC, light pollution filter

80x 30 sec (40 minutes) at ISO800

APT, DSS, PS CS2

[Davey-T]

Congratulations Chris     

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

great image mate,lovely widfield.thanks for sharing. charl.

[wookie1965]

One of my favourite objects

[alan potts]

I'm impressed, I have a modded camera 40D I think or D40, should really try and take a shot like yours, next thing on the list .

Alan

[yesyes]

One of my favourite objects

If only it was a little bigger ;-)

[beamer3.6m]

If only it was a little bigger ;-)

Juat crop the image and enlarge it.

[toxic]

congrats on getting it all up and running and nice image Chris

[laudropb]

Congratulations on such a nice first image. Thanks for posting.

[A40farinagolf]

Excellent image; looks great - it's on my list of things to photograph having visually spotted it for the first time recently.

Was it guided or just well polar aligned as I've just started reading up on PHD software etc.

[yesyes]

it wasn't guided. I haven't got around to set up guiding yet.

It probably helped that the exposures are only 30 seconds not leaving much time for stars to drift (I couldn't go much higher as the almost full moon would wash out the images) ;-)