weekend deepsky

[russ]

Managed to get out Saturday night. Went upto my local club for the first time in 9 months. Had a play with their new LX200 14" GPS, then got down to some imaging. Had no real plan but with Orion looking so nice couldn't resist another crack at the Horsehead. Double Cluster looked nice and i've never bothered with it before. Also gave M97 another crack.

All with the refractor, EOS 10D and Baader Moon & Skyglow filter.

Horsehead - 27 x 90secs @ 1600iso

Double Cluster - 19 x 50secs @ 800iso

M97 Owl Nebula - 8 x 90secs @ 1600iso

Orion - 2 x 90secs on EQ1 with Pentax 50mm (f5.6) lens, no filter @ 400iso

Regards

Russ

[OXO]

Lovely set of images Russ ya gota be happy with these?

James

[russ]

Pleased with the Horsehead, although i've seriously had to push the processing to bring out the red. Which has had a bit of crappy effect on the image quality....but well worth it to see the Horsehead :lol: :lol:

[Grant]

Great images Russ! Is the EOS 10D the camera to have for Astro Stuff now do you think? With the results your getting it seems it might be!

[russ]

Thanks Caz, my second attempt at the Owl..the first was not good. Need to use the refractor at f9 really to get a better image scale. But you can see the eyes....just!

Grant, astrophotography wise, the 10D is identical to the 300D. The 10D has some advantages mind, like being able to use the programmable Canon remote control. And there's benefits for daytime use. By modern standards it's a very sloooowwww camera. If you take the current batch of DSLR's (Nikon D50, Canon 350D/20D, Minolta 5D), they have near instant start up and the screens refresh instantly, there's USB 2.0 transfer etc. On the 10D you don't have a compartment for a battery, thats where you chuck the coal to stoke up the fire. Try and build up a good head of steam, and eventually it starts up. And the LCD screen, well it would be quicker to hand draw the preview image.

Can sum up the 10D as beautifully built, superb handling, awesome image quality, low noise, awesome erogonomics, quite heavy and real sloooowwww (just a good job I'm not into sports photography). I love it to bits! It's a damn fine camera, even today.

Russ

[russ]

One final image from the weekend.

Saturn & The Beehive - 1 x 30secs @ 800iso - EQ1, 10D, 200mm Hanimax, no filter

Russ

[OXO]

Hey nice one Russ, i can tell from that image alone how much the Noise levels differ from the 300D excellent! looks like you made the right choice.

James

[russ]

Awesome set mate....well done

Damien, do you think you'll be giving the Olympus E300 a try? There's somereally nice images appearing around the web taken with the Olympus DSLR's.

Regards

Russ

[CELESCOPE]

darn nice images Russ, they have all come out well , and got the H/H as well , the wide field on the OWL looks great , not done that one in ages, cheers for sharing ,

ROG

[MartinB]

Thanks for those Russ. Great variety of images and really exciting results.

Martin

[Ant]

Hi Russ,

Fantastic images... Particular like the HH and the Owl.

I was also really impressed with the programmable remote - must make life a lot easier.

Regards

Ant

[daz]

Another great set of images.

Cheers for sharing russ

[Rob]

Fantastic!!!.... nice work russ