Orion Taurus and M45 widefield

[geppetto]

Fantastic sky last night but being in one of my regular very painful back weeks

I couldn't get any scopes out.

Still, hobbled slowly outside to setup my Nikon 5400 on the barn door tracker

to catch a widefield.

Set it going for a three minute exposure and enjoyed the sky whilst the camera

was doing it's thing.

About one minute in, a glorious meteor shot across the sky quite low to the south

a fantastic green colour 8)

Turned out that sadly it was just out of the FOV of the camera

Anyway, heres a cut down of the 3 minute image showing Orion, Taurus and M45

[moondog]

Phil - excellent widefield of two of my fav. objects.

Well done , large star fields are not very easy to image, but you nailed this one!

Hope the back gets better soon.

MD

[CELESCOPE]

Beautiful wide field image Phil , pin point stars , excellent shot .

Rog

[Kain]

Very very nice Phil!

I love Taurus and M45.

Kain

[GordonCopestake]

Great stuff Phil, shows you dont need a 'scope for great results!

[geppetto]

Thanks guys

And thanks for the prompt Kain (put Leo instead of Taurus :oops:)

Put it right now back pills must be fogging me brain

[geppetto]

Bit of fun

[Kain]

Well I was going to say it wasn't Leo, but then again I can't remember what Leo looks like

So I might have been wrong

Kain

[Caz]

Stunning image Phil.. 8)

Sorry to hear of your back troubles...

Caz

[geppetto]

Sorry to hear of your back troubles

Thanks Caz.. got the old back problems for life I'm afraid but

I'm used to it now.... thing with a duff back is you can always put it behind you

Kain

Well I was going to say it wasn't Leo

But then your too much of a gentleman

[Kain]

:D

[Caz]

thing with a duff back is you can always put it behind you

>Groan<

[MartinB]

Spot on Phil. Good barn door tracking

[FLO]

Nice one Phil

[Gordon G]

Really nice pic, beautiful scale.

Cheers

Gordon

[Martin 2]

Thats a cracking shot Phil, very sharp and clear, how come you had a clear sky ? whats the secret?

M2

[geppetto]

how come you had a clear sky ? whats the secret?

£25 per week plus VAT to Kain

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Very nice Phil, that tracker works a treat.

Captain Chaos

[richard42]

great image!

love the blues of the stars! shame about the metiorite and the back

and the constalation piccy is a fantastic idea! how did you do it?

[lunator]

Phil

Great pic.

£25 +VAT too Kain. A bargain

I must find my cheque book as it has rained 3 nights in a row.

Cheers

Ian

[geppetto]

Thanks guys

the constellation piccy is a fantastic idea! how did you do it

Probably by breaking some copywrite rules :oops:

I use Stellarium, a free star chart software gizmo and you can choose

to have those fanciful pictures over layed on the constellations.

So, dug into the software's folders and found the source of the images they use

and copied and pasted onto mine in Photoshop

[richard42]

how about a roll over version ? $so when you move the mouse over it shows the "borrowed for educational purposes" layer:D

[Kain]

Hmm I think the cheque is lost in the post Phil

Kain