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37 Is The Magic Number - Again!

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18 years 10 months ago #22761 by Keith g
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Hi again all, I'm just in from my first real 'deepsky' imaging session in my backyard under clear skies this evening, I'm a rookie when it comes to this type of imaging, but I gave it a try with the '37' cluster NGC2169 in Orion.

All of this to me is new, and everything I done was manual - polar aligning, focusing through the scope, taking as many short exposures as possible to see what I would get - and I was surprised. It was taken with a Canon 300D through my C8 SCT. This is a stack of three 20sec exposures at ISO800.

Just slight alterations in ps...
I don't think it went to badly :D

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18 years 10 months ago #22766 by martinastro
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Nice job and great colours in this cluster.

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coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680

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18 years 10 months ago #22768 by StephenK
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Great pic Keith. :D

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18 years 10 months ago #22771 by dave_lillis
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Nice image Keith,
did you focus the image manually or did you use a PC?

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18 years 10 months ago #22778 by Seanie_Morris
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Also, did you do much processing to get the yellows out of those stars or is that almost their natural colour?

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18 years 10 months ago #22780 by Keith g
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did you focus the image manually or did you use a PC?


Dave, all manual focus, no pc/laptop used, just my eye :shock:

Also, did you do much processing to get the yellows out of those stars or is that almost their natural colour?


Seanie, these are the stars natural colours, so it's nice that the camera picks these up well :P

Keith..

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