Orion And Horsehead

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Orion and Horsehead
Taken by David German on September 14, 2013 @ Anderson Missouri USA

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Orion and Horsehead Taken with Nikon D7000 80 to 200 hundred zoom at 145mm. 45 20 second exposures with homemade barndoor tracker. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and post processed in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom. Star spikes added with StarSpikesPro. This image is cropped a little and the other two are cropped from this.

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Could you post a photo of your camera setup? This is outstanding quality for not having a telescope.

Posted by amplelight 2013-09-23 16:31:02

seriously, i may as well just get rid of all my telescopes and use your approach :)

Posted by amplelight 2013-09-23 16:32:58

Great pics! I am also very interested in your technique. Any chance you could share more info with us?? Do you live under very dark skies?

Posted by TheDude 2013-09-24 11:43:20

Thanks for the great compliments.Ill try to post a pic of my setup soon.I first found out about stacking back in the spring and its just been a lot of learning and trial and error.My first attempt at Andromeda I just used a tripod and did 200 images at 2 seconds ISO 3200 125mm and f4(I forgot to mention the ISO on the pics posted was 1600)I was pretty happy with what I got but I wanted better. I had an old 10 reflector at one time and still had the equatorial mount so I just mounted the camera to it but in my testing the motor went bad so had to try something else. I ran across the barndoor tracker online and built one with mostly stuff I had laying around.I still use the equatorial mount for the stability.As for dark skies its not that bad but its not like it would be in the middle of nowhere.I just wait for really good conditions. Again thanks for the nice words. Im going try some more targets soon and Ill post them when I do.

Posted by quasar117 2013-09-26 12:18:27

My email address is dddddgerman@yahoo.com if you want a picture of my setup.

Posted by quasar117 2013-09-26 13:01:25

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