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SGL 2021 challenge 8 - All about Orion


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Start date: 1st November 2021

End date: 31st January 2022

The format of this challenge is a little different in that it will comprise three sections with one outright winner for each.  You are welcome to enter more than one section.

1) Widefield landscape images featuring Orion. 

2) Images of the Orion asterism without including a landscape foreground.

3) Deep sky images of any of the objects within the Orion constellation  boundary.

Prize: A personalised mug for the 3 winners featuring your image kindly provided by our sponsors FLO :) and a virtual trophy for your signature.

RULES

All data must be captured and processed by you (no collaborative entries). 
Data must be captured during the challenge start & end dates. 
Multiple entries are allowed but please start a new topic for each entry. 
Multiple submissions of the same image, processed differently, will not be accepted.

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To enter please post within this topic, do not start a new topic. Please post as much information as possible - when it was taken, how it was captured and processed, etc. The info won't necessarily be used for judging but will help fellow SGLers looking to learn and improve their knowledge and technique.

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After we 'put the clocks back' I look forward to my first views of Orion before 'ridiculous o clock', as he rises majestically above our hedge that borders our backyard to the south. Mrs H always says " Orion is peeking over the hedge". This image was captured at 2:00am on the 3rd of November 2021.

My first attempt at a widefield version. Canon 600d camera on a Star Adventurer mount. Sigma wide lens at f=14mm. and F5. Stack of 7x 240sec RAW lights (plus darks and Bias) at ISO800.  Stacked using DeepSkyStakker, colours and levels adjusted and image cropped using APS . Noise and light pollution reduced using Topaz AI and GradientXterminator.  

I am currently trying out the GradientXterminator plug-in and am dropping big hints to Mrs H that my birthday is in November and that this would make a great gift for an old astro-imager!207511872_Orionpeekingoverthehedgewithframeanno.thumb.png.526bdc62f6525a803abd4638dd3860d0.png

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Here's mine. Mono, but from nb Hso data. Shot in a single 3 hour morning this week. I used my asi1600 and efw with a heath Robinson attachment to my samyang 135mm.

Processed in affinity photo. I've posted the colour and Mono versions on the dso topic, but I'm going with the mono for the comp. It's a bit different, and I think would make a nice print?  I've tried to keep the dark dust clouds.

Stu

 

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First time with the GT71. My first real scope. Been doing astro for about 1 year, DSLR and tracker

Fornax LT 2, D5600 unmodded unguided
3 min x 16 at ISO 400. Lost 90 minutes of data (30 x 3 min) because i left bahtinov mask on the GT71 :( 

Taken evening November 5th in Wadi Sab Sab about 300km NWW of Dammam. 

Ambient around 25c, bortle 3, no filters, have to say I'm amazed the Fornax can track 3 mins at this focal length. Getting accurate PA seems to help, I use AAP just for PA

 

 

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This is my entry of M42 taken on the 02nd of November 2021. I`ve only been doing astrophotography for 5 months and still and learning the ropes, I think I need to focus more on learning to post process. 

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Taken in Bortle 5 with my 150pds on an unguided EQ5. My camera is a stock canon EOS M3, as it doesn't have the port for an intervalometer I used the canon camera connect app and an intervalometer app on my phone.   

60x 45 s lights at ISO 800

30x 45 s Darks

68x bias 

56x flats. 

Stacked in DSS and processed with Gimp. 

Thanks

Danny

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Newbie here, with my very first "proper" astrophotograph taken on November 13:

  • Sony a6000 (stock, no filter)
  • WO RedCat51
  • Star Adventurer (unguided)
  • Intervalometer
  • 50x 60s lights at ISO640, 15 darks, 20 bias
  • Stacking with DSS and processing with Photoshop
  • Location: Mount Semnoz (french Alpes, elevation about 1600m, bortle 4)

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Here's an entry under category 1: 1) Widefield landscape images featuring Orion. 

Taken at the autumn Kielder Star Camp just moments before I hit the sack (part of the reason why can be seen sliding over from the right of the picture). This  is a view of Orion and my neighbour John's setup - still going at the time as far as I could tell.. 

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Heavily light polluted with a big yellow sodium lamp over my garden. No light pollution filter. lucky imaging nebula. Will try soon with a light pollution filter and 10" Newtonian. 

My first posted Nebula. Clearly i need a focal reducer. But we do what we have. At least at f8. you get to see right into the heart of the nebula. For a rather different view to most

Unguided.

 

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The Orion Nebula M42

EAA capture of with a SW 14" GOTO DOBSON (f4.5) on November 17th, 2021.  From my orchard  near Valencia, Spain.

Direct output from Sharpcap Pro,  no cropping or further processing   Just converted to JPG for upload. 

321 X 4 sec at 400 gain (21 min total integration)

ZWO-ASI294MCPro-10C,

ZWO UV-IR cut filter 

Pegasus Falcon Derotator 

Sharpcap Display Stretch output: 25 Darks and 25 flats subtracted and, stretched and color balanced in Sharpcap 

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November 4th, 2021

Close-up of horsehead, flame and their reflection nebula with Alnitak (B33, NGC 2024 and NGC2023)

Using the big Dobson for a close-up view. The new derotator allowed precise framing of this colorful region of Orion without the need to crop out field rotation. This image was originally captured as a 5 minute live stack.  The FITS file of the stack was later used for further image enhancement with Startools to produce the image shown here.

78 x 4 sec at 400 gain. 5,2 minute total integration.      From my orchard  near Valencia, Spain.

SW 14" GOTO Dobson (f4.5)

ZWO-ASI294MCPro-10C,

ZWO UV-IR cut filter 

Pegasus Falcon Derotator 

Captured and Stacked in SharpCap pro. Processed with Startools. 

 

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November 4th

EAA of Running Man Sh2 279  in Orion

Stack_80frames_320sCROP.thumb.jpg.c6e8caceb941b2b0dbcc803563faedb2.jpg80x 4 sec, 400 gain (5.3 mins total).  From my orchard  near Valencia, Spain.

 

SW 14" GOTO Dobson (f4.5)

ZWO-ASI294MCPro-10C,

ZWO UV-IR cut filter 

Pegasus Falcon Derotator 

Sharpcap Display Stretch output: 25 Darks and 25 flats subtracted and, stretched and color balanced in Sharpcap . Cropped and covnered to JPG in Mac Preview.

 

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I may as well add this in to "Category 1".

This was taken with my phone whilst at my folks home in Pembrokeshire on the weekend of 28/11/21. It is a Bortle 4 location, so the lack of light population made a lovely change. At the time I was shooting the Horsehead, and decided to take of a photo of the dark skies - without knowing about this comp.

 

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Grabbed this last night, the last clear skies for a week it seems. 52x180s (+ darks, bias, flats), resulting in 2 hours integration after weeding out a few duds. Had my first (unexpected) meridian flip towards the end. Bortle 5 location (backyard). 

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C4119102-B5F3-4E12-A8B9-F2B8A77E4BD6.thumb.jpeg.bf427a2942d1e82b3986c22df46fc373.jpegThe Orion Nebula taken last night from a Bortle 4 site in County Durham. 50 x 60 seconds subs plus 30 flats and 20 darks stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and then processed in StarTools. TEC140 refractor and ZWO ASI071 MC-Pro controlled with ASI Air. Camera cooled to 0 degrees C and gain set to 150. 

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Widefield landscape featuring Orion and Water Cut. 

Water Cut is one of several sculptures marking the journey of the River Eden.  It is in Mallerstang, part of the Westmorland Dales and Cumbria.  Bit of a walk!

View to S.  Sky is 4 x 120s tracked, ~6 light painted foreground. Canon 6D MkII,  Sigma 24mm.  LR, Sequator and PS.  Click for maximum quality...

Paul

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Here’s my entry for section 1). Deepscape image of Orion rising over Fusafjorden, Norway 🇳🇴 

 

The image is a two pane vertical mosaic captured on the 13th Nov from the same tripod location. Captured with a modded Canon 6D and Askar FMA180.
 

Foreground was 4x180s sec ISO1600.
Sky 30x120s tracked with L-extreme filter.

 

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Orion over the Seven Sisters Cliffs in East Sussex

This is a composite, meaning that the stars are not in the exact place where they should be but not very far either. I prefer it because of the very nice foreground with the Seven Sisters Cliffs and the Coastguard Cottages.

The foreground was shot when the moon was still in the sky, brightening the foreground enough to allow a single short exposure.

The sky was shot later in the night when the moon was gone and the sky was at its darkest.

Astromodified Canon 6d, Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art, Skywatcher Star Adventurer

EXIF:
Foreground: ISO800, f2, 1x13sec 
Sky: ISO3200, f2.8, 108x30sec

Emil

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