You don't need a telescope

Milkyway + stone ruin. 5d3 + Samyang 14mm F2.8 @ F3.2, Iso 6400, 15 secs. No processing other tha a little added saturation.

Moon, trees and fog @ 2:00am, 5d3, 30secs.

Eta Carinae, 60D + 50mm F1.4 @ F1.6, Iso 3200, Astronomik UHC clip filter, 20pics + 20 darks staked in DPP and cropped about 50%.

My first attempt., way back in 2012.

No tracker used.

Moon with Tamron 150-600 + 1.4x TC

gabebalazs wrote in post #17841894
Moon with Tamron 150-600 + 1.4x TC

Beautiful, Gabe!

Randy

Thanks for the info. I think I'll have to try taking the next ones in RAW, and take some dark frames and flat frames, too. Maybe I will figure out why DSS thinks I don't have enough memory and be able to produce better images.

Very nice, Gabe!

I saw you used a Uhc filter from astronomik. How was that? I was looking at their filters and thought it might be a good way to help me deal with light pollution. I would like to practice close to home before driving to dark skies...where is guess it would also,help. Also has anyone converted to full spectrum? Wouldn't that combined with a CBS CCD filter be even better?

recrisp wrote in post #17841913
Beautiful, Gabe!

Randy

lavanut wrote in post #17842088
Very nice, Gabe!

Thank you!

That is a beautiful moon shot. One of the sharpest I've seen in a while. Love the exposure too.

Thank you, I worked quite a bit on processing it.

Re the UHC filter, refer to my image of ETA Carinae in post #1819, taken with a UHC filter, vs, this image of ETA Carinae I took with a 5D3, F3.5, 200mm, ISO 25600 x 30 shots stacked, and no filter used. You can clearly see the difference. Another thing to note, is the the UHC filter blocks about 2/3 the light in the pass band (from memory)

This is my best yet of M45 the Pleiades; a stack of 124 30s exposures through the 600mm f/4L at f/4 on 7D at ISO1600 (light pollution prevents me exposing much longer in individual light frames), with darks, flats, dark flats and bias frames all stacked in DSS and processed with a combination of Lightroom and Photoshop CC. My limiting magnitude on the full size original is 19.3, a new best for me.

While the 600L is a camera lens and not a telescope, therefore qualifying for this thread, I almost feel like I'm cheating, because it is like a telescope with a 150mm aperture.

Nice image. What kind of tracker were you using on these? Was it a telescope mount tracker?