aVisage
4th of January 2010 (Mon), 04:32
I present you with what for the first (at least) 10 years of my life I knew as the saucepan, that most photographed of nebula and it's accompanying belt;
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/4244355118_445762c783_d.jpg
(100% crop + 'medium' size on flickr, full (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4243605569_3ebe6935ce_b_d.jpg)
iso 1600, f3.2, 8sec
This was taken with a Fujifilm S1500 (superzoom style p&s) mounted upon a stately throne ($30nz 2nd hand tripod), focused using precision techniques (balancing the tripod on one leg to get Sirius under the + to allow autofocus(!) to focus lock, then recomposing the shot (on-the-blind since the live view showed nothing but noise) on where I hoped the Orion Nebula was. I just about fell out of my chair when I realised I'd nailed it on my first attempt.
Thought I might have caught a hint of M78 (in the full version) as well but i think i'm fooling myself with noise :lol:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/4244355118_445762c783_d.jpg
(100% crop + 'medium' size on flickr, full (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4243605569_3ebe6935ce_b_d.jpg)
iso 1600, f3.2, 8sec
This was taken with a Fujifilm S1500 (superzoom style p&s) mounted upon a stately throne ($30nz 2nd hand tripod), focused using precision techniques (balancing the tripod on one leg to get Sirius under the + to allow autofocus(!) to focus lock, then recomposing the shot (on-the-blind since the live view showed nothing but noise) on where I hoped the Orion Nebula was. I just about fell out of my chair when I realised I'd nailed it on my first attempt.
Thought I might have caught a hint of M78 (in the full version) as well but i think i'm fooling myself with noise :lol: