Wow - My first DSO's (In alt/az!)

[Johnboy2011]

I'm really chuffed with these, my first DSO's in order. All taken in alt/az (no wedge) and F6.3 reducer usint the equipment in my sig. I had a fair bit of light pollution on two of them so I was hardly expecting to see anything! They are 20 x 20sec subs with 5 x 20sec darks ISO 800. I have put them through DSS and then saved as jpegs in GIMP as I can't work out how to do any processing in GIMP!

M13, M42 and Sombrero.

They look a bit out of place here but I am really proud of them!! Any pointers or tips very welcome.

John

[Johnboy2011]

And M51 looking a bit dim, there is more there but it starts looking a bit crazy if I make it brighter in DSS.....!

[tom33pr]

Well done!!!

[Bizibilder]

Those are very impressive first shots at DSO's - well done!!

[Chestercopperpot]

Fair play

Cant wait to get my SLR to get my first snaps

[ollypenrice]

Yup, good reason to be encouraged.

Olly

[dc509]

Very nice - like the sombrero

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[spaceboy]

These are great images John. Well done. I hope I will one day be able to get images as good.

SPACEBOY

[costeveol]

Gotta love those images

[Johnboy2011]

Thanks for the comments, I think I might be getting an expensive bug!

[Orion_the_Hunter]

These are really good!

[shaunster]

Well done

Like the sombrero the best

[Yoddha]

John,

Very good start! Looking forward to see your next images!

You are right that this bug can be expensive...