Saturn and the Beehive widefield

[OXO]

Here's one of my fav views of the evening sky of late Saturn and the Beehive Cluster, taken with a 70-300 sigma lens and Canon 300D DSLR.

18 Frames of 30 secs stacked in Registax 3 and then processed a little in Photoshop.

James

[Ant]

Very Nice James. Did you use a filter to obtain the spikes on Saturn?

Thats a very artistic shot - love it!

Ant

[OXO]

Hi Ant,

Yeah i used a filter no idea what it is sorry but it did give me those nice spikes :lol: i'll try and find out mate.

Thanks

James

[greencat]

Great photo.

A few questions so I can have a go, as I'm still waiting to try my new E500 & sigma 110-400 lens.

1, Guided or unguided.

2, Iso setting

3, Focal length used

4, Any filter, (lpr ect)

5, Any lights nearby. (all mine so far have orange skyglow, but I can get rid of most adjusting levels)

That it for now

thanks

[OXO]

Hi Greencat,

To answer your Questions,

1.Slew rate 1 on my Motorised HEQ5 mount no additional Guideing was used.

2.Iso 1600

3.Sorry don't remember

4.No LPR filters, found a filter with no indication of what it is on the ring..

5.Amazing amount of Light Pollution like you i process the Orange Glow out of the image.

Glad ou like the Pic

James

[greencat]

blumming hell, that was quick!

Cheers,

Dou you think an ETX70 in altaz mode with camera piggied would be ok for pretty short exposures?

[OXO]

I think your ETX in ALTAZ mode will be perfect Greencat you should get upto 2-3 mins with a 300mm lens i reakon. I have seen 5 mins exposure's in the past and longer on the Net using your setup.

James

[gaelicstorm7]

That's a lovely image James, never been that impressed with the beehive but with Saturn in there it looks really nice

Alan

[OXO]

Thanks Alan, you may find this interesting too http://stargazerslounge.co.uk/index.php?topic=2531.0 ?

I like the image too theres something about captureing the moment

James

[Rob]

Great shot James!... I like that

[Saso]

Very beautiful picture.

Saso

[Albireo380]

Great image James. I tried to get a similar one last night using my Canon 350DSLR with a 300mm lens, piggy backed on my LX90. It was nowhere near as good - I need to try harder.

Cheers

Tom

[OXO]

Thanks Chaps

[tom.yates]

Great image mate you really no your stuff.

[OXO]

Cheers Tom