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[katodog]

Here are a few shots of the Orion Nebula from December 13.

Taken with the Meade LXD75 AR6-AT, a 32mm eyepiece, Fuji S5000 DSLR, with manual settings of 2 second exposure, ISO400, f3.2. Single shots, no stacking.

This shot has some work in Paint Shop Pro for brightness, contrast, resize, and cropping out the outer areas that had empty black space. The camera was zoomed about 2 to 3 times optically.





This shot is the actual picture with no Paint Shop except for cropping out the outer dark areas.





Being as how I'm an amateur, I didn't even know Orion was up at night until I went to take out the trash. It took me about a minute to realize that I was looking at Orion before I went to get my scope. I didn't have any clue it was supposed to be up. Lucky me.



Did I ever mention I love this scope? ;D

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Kdog,

Good trapesium capture there.

With more time and practice, you'll be producing exceptional images. Try and catch Saturn, it's making an appearance in our after midnight skies in the east. Makes a good photographic object and bright enough object for detail.

Good job.

[katodog]

Thanks. I am pretty surprised the shots came out as good as they did. Shows what you can do with a decent scope.


And about Saturn: Yeah, that's easy for you to say. I'd love to get Saturn, but you try staying up to do it and going to work at 6 a.m. I'm not as young as you. Us old guys need our rest.