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Walky

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Hi! Many seeing nights for 2012 to you all.

The newest and less knowledgeable of the all is here. I am just starting with a Canon 550 D and a Canon sx30 (surprising camera) ! My tripod is nothing special, the only special thing is a quick release thingy, and must of the technical talk about equipment and the stars here is like Chinese for me.I am starting a long journey, I know.

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I have seem beautiful, detailed photos of nebulae with just a 70-300 lens. Is that really possible? Unfortunately mine went dead recently. Of course i am interested in wide angle shots, have the std. 18-55 and a 55-250 lens for the 550 D and a 1.8 50mm which has worked vey well.

Equipment:

I don't expect to buy a telescope anywhere soon, but would like to spend my money in a GOTO mount (conceptual) to which I could attach my camera to find targets, since I don't know where to find anything. A star map between 20 - 30 degrees I saw in Amazon, is something I think would be helpful. All of these I say to find what you think about this plan and if I am following a viable strategy.

Goal:

My first interest is of taking a photo of the milky way and I guess I need the capability of this mount, which should be able to track the stars. I think I need to take many pics on the same spot for this and I need the tracking, am I right? Then comes the issue of locating it. That is my first goal for 2012; in summary.

I have been reading postings an enjoying your postings. During the day I will post a few photos I took yesterday, of what I can see from my patio.

I hope to see comments on my project. Needless to say, I am fascinated with the universe and it's wonders, specially the stars and space. I am 64 and getting a little younger every day.

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Mr Q

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Hi Walky and welcome to the SGL.

If you can see the Milky Way even faintly, you can photograph it easily by just using a fairly wide lens with the camera pointing up at the sky. Exposures of a minuet or so will not require a motorized mount for star tracking due to the wide angle view.

Imaging objects is another story. Since most objects are very small, a lens system that produces a magnifying power of at least 7-10x is needed. Since these objects occupy a tiny part of the sky, a motorized mount for the camera is needed to track the objects as they drift across the sky. This is best done with a telescope/camera setup. Without a scope, you will be limited to only wide angle shots with exposures under a minuet or so.

And welcome to the SGL.

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Walky

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Hi walky and welcome to SGL. It sounds like you have much better skies over there, so photography should be amazing!

Oh,no,no... On the contrary, too many days full of clouds. Not to many opportunities in Florida.

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Walky

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Thank you for the many welcomes!

As I have been an amateur photographer for long, never graduated, I tend to "enhance" my photos when I don't get what I want. These have been submitted to some manipulation of brightness or darkening in some areas. So , please bare with me if they don' t look as natural as they should, but otherwise the facades would have been a dark blotch in the landscape.

Hope I am in the right track.

As for the telescope need, I wonder why is it that people in Flickr state that they took pictures without telescopes when they did. That is form where I took the information.

This is my third time taking these pictures and it is sometimes difficult to frame the stars I want even with the Haier monitor attached to the camera.

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Hi Walky and welcome to SGL, there are many photographers who use a telephoto lens camera combo, mounted on equipment such as an Astrotrack and tripod to enable long exposure tracking of the night sky, another alternative is to go down the DIY route and manufacture what is referred to as a Barn door, you will find reference to this home project on the web, the more elaborate designs can track for quite long periods. Best of luck with your photography :)

John.

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Hi Walky,

Welcome to SGL. I hope you spend many happy hours browsing the interesting threads you will find here.

I have friend who moved to Orlando 3 years ago. She now lives in Mt Dora. Not sure what the seeing conditions are like there but fairly light polluted I suspect (as it is where I am). Hope you fair better.

Wishing you Clear Skies from Camberley, UK.

Geoff

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Walky

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Hi Walky and welcome to the SGL.,have you tried 30 sec subs get about 20 of those and stack them up with the free software that is available

Thank you for the welcome...

No, first i have to find out what SUBS are. I guess I shoot every 30 secs and stack?

Remember I have a Mac, not many software as for the windows machines. I found one for the Mac which I have not used, called Lynkeos.

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