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Orion Nebula M42 05/52
This is the first image out of my first foray into DSO astrophotography. What have I gotten myself into! This is a stack of maybe 39 100-sec. exposures taken from my driveway in the middle of town. I took these the second night out because the first night out, I had accidentally set my tracker to track at moon speed, not star speed, which was enough to create significant trailing. 😣
That first night, I had over twice as many exposures. Lesson learned...along with a few others (check and recheck focus often, don't set up everything and then realize you can't polar align because you forgot to check that Polaris wasn't blocked by your house, allow camera to cool down to outside temp well before shooting, if there's much wind just don't bother, check the dew point...on and on). Man, there's so much that goes into AP, and I don't even know what I don't know yet!
Anyway, I'm pleased for the first time out! Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, edited in PS. Fuji X-E2, f/6.2, ISO 800, ~150mm.
Orion Nebula M42 05/52
This is the first image out of my first foray into DSO astrophotography. What have I gotten myself into! This is a stack of maybe 39 100-sec. exposures taken from my driveway in the middle of town. I took these the second night out because the first night out, I had accidentally set my tracker to track at moon speed, not star speed, which was enough to create significant trailing. 😣
That first night, I had over twice as many exposures. Lesson learned...along with a few others (check and recheck focus often, don't set up everything and then realize you can't polar align because you forgot to check that Polaris wasn't blocked by your house, allow camera to cool down to outside temp well before shooting, if there's much wind just don't bother, check the dew point...on and on). Man, there's so much that goes into AP, and I don't even know what I don't know yet!
Anyway, I'm pleased for the first time out! Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, edited in PS. Fuji X-E2, f/6.2, ISO 800, ~150mm.