Let's see your 1st DSOs

[Norris Adams]

Here's my first go at a DSO.

Bode's after seven minutes!

It was taken a couple of years ago. 

Even though it's smeared and grimy, it still delighted me at the time. Without a camera, I'd spent many nights 'wobbling' the scope to try to catch a glimpse of something that the star maps told me was definitely there, but I'd never been able to see it.

Here at last was proof they weren't lying!!!

Norris

[Vroobel]

I think I never posted in this thread... 🤔 Below are my two first DSOs.

 

The Eastern Veil (NGC 6992) - 2022.10.17:

 

The Ring Nebula (M57) - 2022.08.13 (processed later):

 

Both were pictured using my DIY/ATM Equatorial Fork Mount, a Bresser Messier 10" F/5 Newtonian ( https://www.astrobin.com/4sm2ql/ ), modified Canon 6D and Optolong L-eXtreme filter. Stars are a little bit eggy, not replaced with captured separately with LPS filter, etc. After imaging and processing the Eastern Veil, I was so happy that I didn't sleep all the next day. 😁

Did anything change since then? 🤔

    

 

Edited June 14 by Vroobel

[TiffsAndAstro]

Don't remember how many subs but probably about 3 sec each via infra red remote. I remember clicking 300 times on some efforts. Pentax dslr and 50+ year old mint 50mm Pentax f1.7 probably wide open cos why not lol 

 

This one was after I got my mount and with canon 600d, probably my 40yo 135mm f2.8 and an intervalomter3 weeks later. 

I swore I couldn see a hint of horse head

I've heard crack is  nicer and cheaper ;(

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Edited June 14 by TiffsAndAstro

[Groovyson]

It's not my first but rather second, first one wasn't great, just starting out and wasn't a great night to be out.



Object: NGC7000
Date: 14/07/2024
Equipment: Canon R50 (stock), OVL light pollution filter, Askar 103, Askar 52mm guide scope, HEQ5 tuned and rowan belt mod.
Exposures: 20 x 6 min subs at 800 ISO
Software: Stacked with DSS and processed using Photoshop with RC Astro trial plugins.
Sky: Bortle 5 (heading towards bortle 6 with all the new builds....)

Scope arrived the day before I took this shot, FLO where legends getting that sorted so quickly!

Edited July 16 by Groovyson

[Martyn87]

Taken last night, M27, 82 x 30 secs, C6 with F6.3 reducer, stock Canon 550D DSLR on an EQ6R Pro

[CCD-Freak]

Here is my 1st digital image of M1 captured with a CB-245 camera I built back in 1999.

Another LRGB image of M1 shot in 2009 with a Meade DSI-2 modified with active cooling

And here is a recent image of M1 taken with a ZWO ASI-482MC non cooled "planet cam" in 2023.

Quite a bit of difference in 24 years.  (^8

 

 

Edited July 28 by CCD-Freak

[2manytrees]

Our first attempts at photos were back in 2003/4.  The days of using Philips Toucam webcams to take videos of the planets and stack the frames in Registax. DSOs were a bit different and we invested in a black and white ccd camera that, sadly, didn't survive for long and its loss more or less ended our interests at that time.

The photos were small, too!

Here are two; M27 and M57.  Orion Europa 200 8" newtonian with a notchy motor drive; a SAC8 black and white camera (remember those?). No darks, flats etc, had never heard of them at the time. I still wonder how on earth we managed to find the things in the sky, let alone image them; considering all the fancy gear available to us today.