Orion's Up!

The famous Orion Nebula (Messier 42).

Ignore the dark noise, I didn't stack it with any dark frames.

The Orion Nebula (aka M42).

I had a heap of other ones that were a little more zoomed in, but they were all out of focus - so I had to crop a wider angled shot and a lot of detail of the nebula itself was lost because of that.

29.08.2012

so this is dylan's composite image of roughly seven different exposures of about 1 minute each, taken a couple of weeks ago. i played around with it in lightroom but i don't think he was too impressed with the results. i'm uploading them anyway, because i spent time on it, and because i can.

canon 60d / iso 800 / f/1.8 / 1.6sec

guess who stayed up all night to check orion out in the dawn? this yves right here. turns out darkness doesn't really help the nebula stand out to the naked eye at all. i have no idea how i'm ever going to get a proper photograph of you, M42. i have an unfriendly suspicion that it'll cost me a great deal of money to achieve this goal.

08.08.2012

full moon, august 2nd

canon 60d / iso 100 / f/4.5 / 1/160sec

many different objects in this widefield taken at 50mm, notably messier 7, the butterfly cluster (M6), the lagoon and trifid nebulas (M8 & 20) and if you look closely, M23 is faintly visible in the bottom right as a smudge.

canon 60d / iso 500 / f/1.8 / 5sec

my first attempt at M4, the small smudge left of centre between antares (big red giant) and al niyat, or sigma scorpii, the lower of the two bright stars near the heart of scorpius.

canon 60d / iso 1000 / f/1.8 / 3.2sec