Horsehead and Jellyfish. Ha. DSLR and Star 71

[StargeezerTim]

Here are two Ha images from last night. The Horsehead was 9 X 10 min, iso 1600 subs and the Jellyfish was 10 X 10 min subs. Not looking good weather wise but hope to add some RGB in the future.

 

 

Edit... here is a re (over) processed Jellyfish...

 

[Demonperformer]

Nice shots. B/W Ha shots can be very impressive (IMO).

[wimvb]

Excellent Horse & Flame. Smooth as if captured by a multi k£ ccd. With Alnitak split and not dominating the view.

[toxic]

lovely images both off them i prefer the first go with the jellyfish 

[MikeODay]

Wonderful images Tim.  I love the Horsehead and flame nebula, they really stand out.

[MarsG76]

Nice work Tim... both of your images are tops...

With DSLRs delivering quality like this, who needs a cooled CCD?

[StargeezerTim]

1 hour ago, MarsG76 said:

With DSLRs delivering quality like this, who needs a cooled CCD?

To be honest, a cooled camera sounds great. I think these were OK as it was about -1C when I captured the subs. I can't see me going down the CCD route, mainly because I want to avoid using a laptop when imaging. The 100D is great, it is so light and small, I initially thought it was cheap and wouldn't last but its proved a real workhorse that delivers better quality than my 550D and the 1200D.

[MarsG76]

16 hours ago, StargeezerTim said:

To be honest, a cooled camera sounds great. I think these were OK as it was about -1C when I captured the subs. I can't see me going down the CCD route, mainly because I want to avoid using a laptop when imaging. The 100D is great, it is so light and small, I initially thought it was cheap and wouldn't last but its proved a real workhorse that delivers better quality than my 550D and the 1200D.

Ofcourse CCD are the crem' de la crem for imaging space... but as you can see, if care is taken, DSLRs are very capable cameras.