Original size: 977x651
DATE
December 3rd, 2007, 10pm to 10:30pm PST
PHOTO
Exposure: 1 x 3 minutes
Focal: 600mmm, f/7.5
EQUIPMENT
Imaging Scope: Orion 80mm ED Apo
Camera:Canon 400D Stock (unmodified)
Guide camera: None
Guide scope: None
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
SITE & CONDITIONS
Dinosair Point, Gilroy, CA
Seeing:Good
Transparency: Excellent
SOFTWARE
Stacking: None
Processing: Photoshop
AUTHOR
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
COMMENTS
What can you do when you're not guiding, with a "cheap" mount and scope, one single shot
and on top of that, during your "first night out"? If it's winter and your mount is at least OK,
you can get a nice image of the Orion Nebula and amaze yourself. The problem? You might just get
hooked on astrophotography :-)
All by itself, this image has nothing special. It's a classic and simple photo of the Orion nebula,
and not a very good one depending how you look at it (very little data other than the brightest parts of
the nebula, the trapezium is completely burned out, bloated and oversaturated stars, odd colors, etc.).
But it was my very first "serious" astrophoto, and for me that makes it special of course :-)
