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When you look up at Orion's Belt with the naked eye in the depths of Winter it's a beautiful sight. But what the naked eye doesn't see are all the goodies that lie within this region:




Processed by Noel Carboni, acquired by Greg Parker: Enjoy!!

Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

Really nice While I knew it was there, I never really noticed how big it was before. Hope to have my own go some day.

Can I ask what optics you used for this? I know my scope will be too long (small fov) so wondering if a telephoto lens will be adequate.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

This is great, love the "dust cloud" sooo when do you wanna go visit this place

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Beautiful. Once again Greg!
May i ask what gear and software you used for this?

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Gear: a200, Sony 18-70 3.5-5.6 DT, Minolta 50 1.7 AF, Lowepro TLZ Mini, GorillaPod SLR Zoom
Saving for Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX HSM Macro II (50%)

Another great image Greg - the horsehead nebula can be a tricky one to capture, but you've done it wonderfully as always!

PS - I believe Greg's equipment can be found in the links at the bottom of his posts...

Doh! Good point about the sig/link. Following through and looking up, apparently it's mostly from the Sky 90 scope (504mm f/5.6) and SXVF-M25C camera sensor module thingy whatever you call it (colour 6MP APS-C size).

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Taken with the Sky 90 refractor and at f#4.5 with a Starlight Xpress SXVF-M25C. Software was Maxim DL for data capture, autoguiding and pre-processing - and Noel Carboni uses Photoshop for image processing.
Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

Another stunner. Love it.

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The equipment he has. Not the equipment he used.

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Sonyian?

My Flickr - Comments very welcome
Gear: a200, Sony 18-70 3.5-5.6 DT, Minolta 50 1.7 AF, Lowepro TLZ Mini, GorillaPod SLR Zoom
Saving for Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX HSM Macro II (50%)

Yeah, Greg has got some nice equipment … and he’s photos show that he knows how to put it to work. Knowing what the price tags are on such equipment I would say that it is highly unlikely that other users can make photos of a similar quality … so it is in fact really friendly that you share them with the rest of us – thanks a lot

Amazing amount of detail. I'd like to try this someday...

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Hehe, you can start out by wining the “big prize” in a lottery

It's all relative I guess. For the work I'm doing it's about the cheapest way possible. The Sky 90 is about (?) 1200 dollars, the CCD about 2000 dollars is the most expensive component, a suitable mount is about 1000 dollars. So you could be doing this for around 5000 dollars. When you think the Ritchey-Chretien boys have telescopes starting at 30,000 dollars - my work really is cheap entry-level stuff
Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

I bet you could add lots of those random pixel size white spots in Photoshop and called them stars, right?

All that would cost then would be a license for Photoshop Elements!

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Probably not. It looks realistic to me.

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