Grand Orion

Hello again I was just out at my costal retreat in Waterford over the weekend, whereby Friday's night sky was simply stunning, the stars were absolutely glistening Here is a test shot of the constellation Orion with my new canon 400D - 24-70mm L zoom lens combo to see how it would turn out, piggybacked on the C8.

This is a stack of just two 3 minute exposures at 34mm, f3.5, ISO 800 along with three dark exposures. You can see a bit of neblosity from the unmodified 400D, namely the orion nebula (obviously!), the rosette nebula, the flame nebula and barnard's loop. There's a slight bit of high cloud at bottom. I'd like to give this a better go soon to get even more detail.

Keith..

Yet another class image there Keith.... well done

Nice one Keith,
ya know I've only seen Orion once so far this year ! talk about off form

Thanks lads.

ya know I've only seen Orion once so far this year ! talk about off form

Time for the obsessionator!

Keith..

Ì'll be back :lol:

Nice one Keith. It's that kind of wide-field shot that I want to do that would prompt me to modify the 350D to remove the IR filter. Imagine your picture there without the IR filter! :shock: Twould be stunning!

Seanie.