Orion in Ha with 50mm lens

[melsky]

First test shot with modded Canon 1000D of the constellation Orion, 50mm Nikkor F1.4 lens stopped down to F3.2 with a 12nm HA clip filter.

This is a stack of 17 exposures of 7 minutes at 800 iso, camera as usual mounted on the Astrotrac.

Having failed miserably to get a colour shot of Barnard Loop I'm amazed at how bright it shines in Ha.

Last Sunday I drove 20 minutes to a dark sky site in the Cotswolds for this one as Orion is in streetlight territory from home.

Mel

[Virtual Cold]

That's gorgeous. The loop looks great!

[RogerTheDodger]

Fantastic image.

[Merlin66]

Excellent results!!

I'm pleased to see the clip in filter worked so well.

Bearing in mind the aperture was only 15.5mm an amazing outcome.

[Moonshane]

a superb image! wonderful for getting a better idea of how this whole area fits together.

[Psychobilly]

Cracking shot Mel...

I have abandoned all hope of a colour "Barnard" as well for my home site... not helped by only having a 1 hour clear view of orion between the trees each night if i want a widefield shot...

The Nikkors are lovely lenses...

Peter...

[JonH]

Fantastic image Mel, you're a great advertisement for the Astrotrac!

[Dave Smith]

Brilliant :icon_salut:

Dave

[ollypenrice]

Totally outstanding. That is a perfectly crafted image from beginning to end, just oozing quality. I think you'd be surprized by how little colour you'd need to make this work in HaRGB. I did a monster mosaic with 5 hours per panel in Ha and again in RGB at F4 and in the RGB the loop and the Meissa nebulosity reallty were faint but came alive with the Ha.

Olly

[Zul]

This is so amazing i never sow anything like that!

[MjrTom]

Shots like this make me want to make time to use my Astrotrac more!

Cracking image!

[laser_jock99]

Good one- I've tried this non-filtered from a dark sky but sky glow generally interferes. Narrow band is clearly the way forward!

[wolfgang.f]

Fantastic. The level of detail is amazing!

W.

[Jannis]

WOW! that's just, stunning! Never seen anything like this before. simply awsome!!

[Beyond_Vision]

A cracking result Mel the contrast in Lamda Orionis is superb

Regards

Kevin

[Rob L]

I love this image! There is so much going on in this area, it's a treat through a scope but staggering to see what can be caught on camera.

I recently took 10x60 seconds of Orion, but only got a faint hint of the loop.

[Tim]

Superb Mel. If we were running POW at the moment this would be a surefire contender!

Tim