My best shot to present myself

[smallmadtv]

Hi all,

As I'm new to this forum, I will post one of my favorite picture I have made...

The Great Orion Nebula:
http://www.smallmadtv.com/astrogallery/content/Messier/M42%20Great%20Orion%20Nebula/M42-80ED-Canon350DdefiltreTrois.jpg

If you want more info regarding techniques go to my website:
http://www.smallmadtv.com/m42.htm

I hope you like it! let me know what you think!

Best regards
Andy

[MakeMeShutter]

WOW !!!! This is fantastic.

The detail is wonderful.

[cntry]

WOW!

[Scoobs]

Superb, I look forward to seeing more of your work.

[smallmadtv]

A not so easy to shoot... The Moon...

I have printed it in very big... And hang in my badroom..

http://www.smallmadtv.com/astrogallery/content/La%20Lune/Day%20After%20Day/18Feb08-La_Lune.jpg

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[Celestron]

Thats a great shot smallmadtv . A little too sharp on the edges tho but still great . If you reduce these a little smaller and duplicate and list them side by side they would make for a great 3-D effect image !

[cntry]

Are you in the ISS or do have control of the Hubble? Great shots!

A not so easy to shoot... The Moon...

I have printed it in very big... And hang in my badroom..

http://www.smallmadtv.com/astrogallery/content/La%20Lune/Day%20After%20Day/18Feb08-La_Lune.jpg

Press F11 for Full Screen Mode

[footballdude2k3]

what lens did you use?

[DeCeccoNET]

Thats amazing! (and it kinda reminds me of the intro to the classic Battlestar Galactica series)

[smallmadtv]

For the Orion Nebuale I use a telescope, it's a Skywatcher ED80 600mm of focal.
For the moon I use a Skywatcher Mak 150 of 1800mm of focal with a focal reducer to get around 1100mm of focal.

[jmx]

Did you not need a field flattener to get such a photo with that ED80? Or did you have to crop off the ruined stars on the edge?

Great photo btw...

[smallmadtv]

Did you not need a field flattener to get such a photo with that ED80? Or did you have to crop off the ruined stars on the edge?

Great photo btw...


No field flattener on this image, just ED80. An I had to crop, mainly for the Amp-off on the right side... Btw, i use a unfiltered 350d...
lights sequence:
10x01 sec @ 1600ISO
10x10 sec @ 1600ISO
20x30 sec @ 1600ISO
30x60 sec @ 1600ISO
20x90 sec @ 1600ISO
As you can see I have also the core, for future image processing as I'm not able right now to get what i want...


I have now a field flattener WO III but don't realy like it...

[minliu2k]

OMG, the best M42 shot I ever saw. Thanks a lot.

[smallmadtv]

OMG, the best M42 shot I ever saw. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.. !! :oops::oops:

[Nighthound]

Nice work, especially with 90 seconds being your longest subs. You've collected some very detailed data. Somewhere along the line while processing you clipped the lower end of the histogram(black point). As a result you've lost a lot of subtle detail, especially in the outer regions of M42 and NGC 1977. It could be happening in the stacking program or during any stretching of the stacked file that you may have applied.

Also, to best restore the bright core of Orion try shooting some very short exposures, around 10-15 seconds to layer into the final processed file in Photoshop. I usually do those first to get them out of the way and then begin the many longer exposures.

Good shootin'.

[gkarris]

(sitting totally speechless...)

:O

[VIGER]

Yep nice details. M42 is up in the morning these days? Thanks for sharing the technical aspect.

Cheers

Michel

[AxxisPhoto]

Um... yeah. I know nothing about astrophotography, but this is really nice way to present yourself!