Messier 42, Orion Nebula: Comments

Thanks for showing us what can be done "easily"! It's especially interesting to see the performance of an unmodified DSLR on nebulae.

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Hi Rogelio!

Excellent website! Superb photo's!!

I'm curious about the oldest images (dec 2007): how on earth did you get already such beautiful results without guiding of any sort?? Amazing!

I do polar alignment as precisely as I can, spending an hour on it to get it right, then after 2 min.s exposure time already I get elongated stars...

Kind greetings,

Peter Simmering
(beginning) astrophotographer
V.W.S. Thales (astronomy club)
Zwolle - The Netherlands

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Hi Peter,
When you don't do autoguiding you may get more or less elongated stars depending on the focal length of your scope. What is the focal length of your scope?

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I get in touch with your website from a link in the NASA page.

All your pictures are really impressive but I prefer to comment on this because I am doing my first steps with astrophotography with a similar beginner equipment like yours in this picture of the Orion Nebula.

I agree with you that your first M42 nebula picture is something that you will never forget and it is really special.

Congratulations for the great improvement you made since that time and let me tell you that being published by the Nasa in the "Astronomy Picture of the day" (March 19 - "Seagull and the duck")is just like wining a Nobel Prize

Finally, as I live in the Southern Hemisphere I am lucky to have Orion up in the sky during summer time which is more pleasent for doing astrophotography.

Regards

Fernando Gomez

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