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Dec 08, 2011 01:16 |  #1

New here and thought I would throw up some of my recent work , I see a lot of great shots in the forums here.

IMAGE: http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/Nils_Lars/Rho-region-2-DDP-sml-jpg.jpg

28 5min subs with no filter at ISO 800 stacked in DSS then adjusted in PS CS2. Canon 500D(modded) , Orion Atlas mount and the lens was the Nikon 180ED @ f/2.8 and a 7x40mm finder as a guide scope

I know its taken with Nikon glass on a Canon and thats probably some kind of evil pairing but it was such a cheap lens and works so well for Astrophotography I had to pick one up.

http://www.flickr.com/​photos/31986095@N05/ (external link)

  
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Dec 08, 2011 01:45 |  #2

Awesome shot. 120% nothing wrong with that! When did you shot this?

Have you got a bigger version?


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Dec 08, 2011 02:33 |  #3

Excellent post. Love the 180ED too. Its a favorite in the Astro community.


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Dec 08, 2011 08:32 |  #4

Very nice and i agree we need a larger link please !




  
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Dec 08, 2011 09:01 |  #5

great shot erik, i seem to remember this image from either cloudynights or ods




  
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Dec 08, 2011 12:48 |  #6

Wonderful!




  
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Dec 08, 2011 13:05 |  #7

Lovely way to introduce yourself. Welcome.


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Dec 08, 2011 14:41 |  #8

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I think I shot this back in July from a very dark mountain top and it never really gets to high in the sky for me here in the Santa Cruz mountians so its a tough target.

Here is a link to a larger version
http://www.flickr.com …6/sizes/l/in/ph​otostream/ (external link)


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Dec 08, 2011 17:24 |  #9

Great shot. What did you use to do the tracking just as a matter of interest?


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Dec 08, 2011 18:32 |  #10

Nils_Lars wrote in post #13512126 (external link)
... Orion Atlas mount...

^^^


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Dec 09, 2011 08:12 |  #11

I'm surprised your rig didn't go up in a total conversion reaction explosion with that lens and camera body in contact with each other (matter-antimatter, you know) :D

Nice shot, though!


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Dec 09, 2011 09:33 |  #12

How did you mount the lens on the camera? Is there an adapter that still lets you get infinity focus, or does the lens come in eos mount?


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Dec 10, 2011 00:49 |  #13

archer1960 wrote in post #13517868 (external link)
I'm surprised your rig didn't go up in a total conversion reaction explosion with that lens and camera body in contact with each other (matter-antimatter, you know) :D

Nice shot, though!

Heh ya , its an inexpencive Fotodiox adpater and since its just an old manual focus lens nothing gets lost by using it.

Simple to focus with a Bahtinov mask and a bright star.


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Dec 10, 2011 08:24 |  #14

That adapter explains why your rig didn't explode: it kept the matter and antimatter from contacting each other <grin>. So you keep infinity focus even with the adapter in place? That's pretty useful...


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Dec 10, 2011 15:17 |  #15

Most manual focus lenses can be used with a no-optics adapter on the EOS series because it has a shorter flange to sensor distance than most other cameras. Ironically, the Canon FD series lenses don't fall into that group. They're still good for macro though.
There's plenty of good Pentax M42 glass around for dirt cheap and manual focus lenses are much easier to manually focus than autofocus ones. There are adapters that will enable the on-camera focus confirmation beep.


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