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Hi everyone,

You may have seen me buzzing around various bits of this forum - but I actually haven't posted anything that is my mainstream work - until now.
I use a small Sky 90 refractor (90mm object lens diameter) and a Starlight Xpress SXVF-M25C one-shot 6 megapixel colour camera to take deep-sky images. The kit piggybacks on an 11" Celestron Nexstar GPS which is used as the guide scope (slight case of overkill) - but of course everything uses the Celestron's superb mount to move around.

This image:
http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 489ss1.jpg

is a nice pair of nebula in Auriga I took a few weeks back. Noel Carboni [Florida, U.S.A.] does all the serious image processing on the data, I just carry out initial colour conversion and stacking.

Hope you like the image
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/

Holy cow, Greg! That's impressive.

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

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Beautiful shot, Greg, and that bluish tracery of nebulosity in IC405 shows nicely. Do you know, by any chance, what element's emission line we are seeing there?

Bob.

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OM-D E-M5 + ED 12-50mm, H-PS14042E, H-F007014E, L-RS014150E, M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm 1:1.8.
Gitzo GT1541T, Arca-Swiss Z1 DP ball-head.
Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.

thats a really incredible shot of stars/nebula's and who knows what else. Space truly is mind boggling and very unexpected.

Thanks guys.

Bob - that blue is reflection nebulosity, scattering of short wavelength (blue) light by dust particles. It is broadband and not narrowband emission due to some specific element's line.

All the best,
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/

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Thanks Greg.

Bob.

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OM-D E-M5 + ED 12-50mm, H-PS14042E, H-F007014E, L-RS014150E, M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm 1:1.8.
Gitzo GT1541T, Arca-Swiss Z1 DP ball-head.
Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.

I don't know anything about this astrophotography stuff, but that looks awesome.

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Nikon D40 + 18-135
My Flickr.

I love these shots, there really is just so much 'stuff' out there!

Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

James

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Nikon D80, 18-135mm, 50mm f/1.8, Sigma 10-20mm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17951665@N08/

Hi Greg,

Once again, I'm in awe of you astrophotography guys. It's always so impressive looking. I wish I lived in a place with less pollution and less light pollution.

That's a beautiful shot you've posted.

-steve

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Leica M9, Nikon D300s, Leica X1, Canon S95, Zero Image 6x9

Now that's a gorgeous shot!!

I gotta echo seattlesteve's sentiments: you astrophotographers rock!

Cheers

Thanks guys - glad you like it.

Steve - if you have bad light pollution, you can always try narrowband imaging, some remarkable work is done from light polluted areas in the States.

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/