Horsehead Nebula - from Kielder Autumn Starcamp 2012

[mikeyscope]

Horsehead Nebula from Kielder Starcamp 2012

Canon 60Da with telephoto lens @ f 7

3 x 600sec @ iso 800

No Flat Frames

No Dark Frames

(Quick & dirty)

3 x 600 sec exposures - 2 with satellite trails (cloned out) & 1 stained blue with daylight fast approaching.

Horsehead Nebula from Kielder Autumn Starcamp 2012 by mikeyscope, on Flickr

[nytecam]

Fabulous image of Flame and Horsehead in 30m exp ;-) great Flickr gallery too ;-)

[stonemonkeylives]

Lovely image Mikey.

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[Gina]

That's magnificent Lovely clear Horsehead and nicely detailed Flame What focal length lens?

[Bob Andersson]

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Lovely image. Is the diffraction pattern lens induced or added during PP?

Bob.

[MrsR]

Stunning thanks for sharing

[Dean]

Very nice

Dean

[cloudbuster]

nice one! superb for a DSLR and one of the best ive yet seen!

[mikeyscope]

Thanks for positive feedback folks...

What focal length lens?

Gina...thanks, it's an 800mm ...I think around 1280mm equivalent on the 60Da

Lovely image. Is the diffraction pattern lens induced or added during PP?

Bob.

Bob ...thanks, most older lenses produce diffraction spikes but the new lenses now tend to have rounded diaphragms designed to reduce this effect and improved the bokeh for daylight photographers.

Mike

[Austin]

Awesome image!!

[AstroTux]

Wonderful. Reminds me of the images I used to look at in the Space Encyclopeadia I had in the '60s/'70s that were taken with the Mt Palomar 200" telescope.

[Dangerous-Dave]

Cracking result Mike. Out of interest, what decided you to go for f7 over wide open or one stop down? It has certainly worked.

[Velvet]

Love this image, very clear, in fact awesome

Velvet

note to self must improve before i post anyomre images on SGL LOL

[stellawolf]

Wonderful image well done

[allcart]

Very nice image Mike. The horsehead and flame look fab.

[pel]

Brilliant.

[astrostu]

Fantastic image ! What mount did you use? I was booked to camp at this star party but was unable to attent unfortunately. Mabe next time. Stu ~

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[ian_bird]

Wowsers! Stunning! I would also love to know what mout you had for 600 second subs,

Really beautiful!

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[mikeyscope]

Thanks again folks for the kind feedback ...

Dangerous-Dave

Cracking result Mike. Out of interest, what decided you to go for f7 over wide open or one stop down? It has certainly worked.

Dave

Thanks... it was just a balance between closing the diaphragm enough to produce diffraction spikes while keeping star images tight ...& enough light to keep exposures 600secs maximum because of possible noise build up, f8 would only have tightened the star images slightly more.

ian_bird

Wowsers! Stunning! I would also love to know what mout you had for 600 second subs,

Really beautiful!

Ian

Thanks...it's an AP1200 on field tripod but also autoguide with an SBIG STV through a Takahashi FS-60C anyway to be certain there will be no egg shaped stars.

Mike