Even more budget DSO: M42 (Only Camera AP)

[Rihard]

Hello,

as said in the Planetary thread, I'm still awaiting for my new telescope (SW 200p) to be delivered, so all I could do in this almost-clear Saint Patrick evening was taking some snaps of the sky with my usual setup: cheap tripod, Nikon D3100 and cheap Sigma 300 mm telezoom.

It amazes me that I can still pop out some objects that cannot be seen with naked eye, with such an irrelevant setup.

So, this is an Even More Budget DSO (Single Shot, 5 seconds or something like that, Curves adjusted with some nikon software and apple preview )

Again, all of your daily images are stunning and I never get tired looking at them over and over in their different flavours (especially M42, it's so enchanting!) but of course this is cr*p in comparison, I just wanted to share though.

This could be interesting also for those who do not have a telescope and would like to catch something from the nightsky or experiment some kind of AP on a budget.

Tips welcome.

[Quatermass]

Nice one just a camera and a tripod no telescope images/ one of mine from a night in a dark field in Suffolk somewhere..

You can see the Pleiades just to the right of the big tree. And all that lovely light pollution from the town.

[John Togger]

TziuRiky - it's amazing what you can see with such apparently short exposures.

Quatermass - what exposure / ISO / focal length did you use for that shot?

[Chris]

Nice shots guys:) I didn't get the focus right on my widefield M42 at all. Snap on the light polution QM I really need to get an LP filter at some point:)

[alpal]

Just a camera on an EQ6 mount unguided - 1 frame.

Canon EOS 1000d at Mt Baw baw, 5000 feet altitude.

Milky Way & Southern Cross by the trees.

You can see Eta Carinae too.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii119/alpal2002/IMG_1769_6.jpg

[Rihard]

Very nice shots guys.... Alpal that's impressive