Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Had another semi clear evening and wanted to try out the new camera again.
Taking images of the night sky by mounting the camera on the tripod.
I had a go at getting Orion into view and tried a few shots.

The wind was belting and it kept moving the camera tripod combination with the stronger gusts which ruined many of the subs.
One did finally come out fairly steady though.

Details: 8 sec exposure, ISO 800 at F5.0 and a focal lenght of 45.00mm.
I did the focusing manually and this is a lot tougher than one would expect when trying to peer through the eyepiece and focus on the stars!

So here is the processed version(Star tools).


The other thing that is quite astonishing is just how many stars are picked up by the camera!
With the naked eye only the brightest stars in the Orion constellation are visible, by my count about 12 or so.
And in the image there are hundreds!
Cannot wait to get the T Ring for the camera and get it attached to the scope!

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