ISS pass and M42 on Paddys Day 2009

Here is my first ever attempt at piggyback photography on my CGE 11

Here is a shot of the ISS pass at 8.41 GMT passing below Orion. 18-55mm canon lens at F5.6 (18mm setting) ISO 400 mounted ona CGE 11

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A 3 minute shot of M42 using a Sigma 70-300mm lens at 300mm. ISO 400 with a Canon 450D

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Hey John

Nice shooting their, what do you use to piggyback the camera
on the telescope, i have a 450d aswell, did you buy a special
bracket or sumthing you made yoourself?

cheers Derek

Any bigger shots John.
A spot of post processing might also help
get rid of some of the skyglow.

barr wrote:

Hey John

Nice shooting their, what do you use to piggyback the camera
on the telescope, i have a 450d aswell, did you buy a special
bracket or sumthing you made yoourself?

cheers Derek

Hi Derek

You need a camera piggyback adapter for your telescope. Most astronomy shops can provide one for your scope. I got mine from telescope service.

Barberskum wrote:

Any bigger shots John.
A spot of post processing might also help
get rid of some of the skyglow.

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I have cropped and darkened it a bit here

Thanks John I must look in to getting one of those.

I have the same problem that your having ther with sky glow, when i take a long exposure a minute
or more its orange aswell, although i get more star trails than you DAM IT, ive been reading a lot about proccosing, stacking and so on, its very mind boggling.
cheers Derek.