Albireo
Jun 3, 2015 13:10:53 #
Albireo appears to the naked eye to be a single star of magnitude 3 but through a telescope, even low magnification views resolve it into a double star. The brighter yellow star (actually itself a very close binary system) makes a striking color contrast with its fainter blue companion star.
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
Jun 3, 2015 18:10:55 #
CraigFair wrote:
Albireo appears to the naked eye to be a single star of magnitude 3 but through a telescope, even low magnification views resolve it into a double star. The brighter yellow star (actually itself a very close binary system) makes a striking color contrast with its fainter blue companion star.
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
You and I were thinking alike. May I attach my shot?
Jun 3, 2015 18:16:35 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
You and I were thinking alike. May I attach my shot?
Absolutely, please do. I only had 15 min of clear sky and rushed mine a lot.
Craig
Jun 3, 2015 18:21:08 #
CraigFair wrote:
Absolutely, please do. I only had 15 min of clear sky and rushed mine a lot.
Craig
Craig
Mines not very special but just happens to be the same.
Be afraid, you and I are thinking the same...
;)
I had swung over to find Hercules and the twins distracted me. I had to grab a shot or two.
Jun 3, 2015 18:29:29 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Mines not very special but just happens to be the same.
Be afraid, you and I are thinking the same...
;)
Be afraid, you and I are thinking the same...
;)
Great minds you know :thumbup:
I can't wait to spend a little more time on getting a good shot of those two.
They were really pretty in the eyepiece during alignment.
Craig
I got a look at Vega during the alignment for a minute.
Then i used it to get a good focus before shooting Albireo.
Craig
Jun 3, 2015 23:28:20 #
CraigFair wrote:
Albireo appears to the naked eye to be a single star of magnitude 3 but through a telescope, even low magnification views resolve it into a double star. The brighter yellow star (actually itself a very close binary system) makes a striking color contrast with its fainter blue companion star.
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
I dug through last years pictures and I did find one of Albireo. This was done using a Sony A99 and a 300mm f2.8 lens (actually set to 3.2) and was a 15 sec shot at ISO 3200.
Because this shot was only at 300mm, you can only tell that the star is a bit elongated (You need to download and then click to expand). The main double stars are only 34 arc sec apart. That is too close for the 300mm lens. Need a telescope to resolve them that close together.
But if you like lots and lots of stars, you can see them here.
Jun 4, 2015 16:04:45 #
CraigFair wrote:
Albireo appears to the naked eye to be a single star of magnitude 3 but through a telescope, even low magnification views resolve it into a double star. The brighter yellow star (actually itself a very close binary system) makes a striking color contrast with its fainter blue companion star.
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
Nikon D800E w/Meade 8" scope and 2x Barlow.
f/11, 5 sec, ISO 6400 and lots of dew on the Corrector Lens.
Craig
When I get home, if I remember, I will upload my image of Albireo from a while back. I shot mine with my 10" but if I recall mine does not show the amount of separation that yours does.
Bravo,
Matthew
Jun 4, 2015 17:02:36 #
Oknoder wrote:
When I get home, if I remember, I will upload my image of Albireo from a while back. I shot mine with my 10" but if I recall mine does not show the amount of separation that yours does.
Bravo,
Matthew
Bravo,
Matthew
Thank you Matthew. I know it's a very messy shot but I just decided to post "something".
Look forward to seeing your shot.
Craig
Jun 4, 2015 19:13:38 #
This was shot sometime in 2013, only PP was minor cropping and the use of Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions (which I could not suggest more) to bring out the colors.
Jun 4, 2015 19:15:15 #
JimH123 wrote:
I dug through last years pictures and I did find o... (show quote)
I have to agree Jim, that is a very impressive starfield.
Matthew
Jun 4, 2015 22:14:27 #
Oknoder wrote:
This was shot sometime in 2013, only PP was minor cropping and the use of Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions (which I could not suggest more) to bring out the colors.
This looks like a Newtonian shot. 6"?
Jun 4, 2015 23:31:42 #
I think it might have been my old dob based on the diffraction spikes I should keep better notes.
Matthew
Matthew
Jun 5, 2015 04:03:07 #
In hindsight, after a discussion with my wife she claims she is the one who photographed this particular image. She claims it was with my AVX and 6" Newt, soon after I received it the final time from Celestron. So it was more than likely shot around Sept or Oct of 2013. So in theory I have another image of this double floating around somewhere in my Photo files. Too bad I have over 6tb of images all organized in folders simply by the month they were taken, except for my Astro photos, these along with being in the folders of the month in which they were taken, are in a mass folder and organized by object name. This organization style seemed to make sense when I first began photography, but now since there are so many images it looks a bit daunting.
I really should keep better notes, maybe switch over at least my astro photos to .FITS since they hold header information about the camera, optics and time of image.
Matthew
I really should keep better notes, maybe switch over at least my astro photos to .FITS since they hold header information about the camera, optics and time of image.
Matthew
Jun 5, 2015 10:48:55 #
Oknoder wrote:
In hindsight, after a discussion with my wife she claims she is the one who photographed this particular image. She claims it was with my AVX and 6" Newt, soon after I received it the final time from Celestron.
Matthew
Matthew
Aha, I thought it looked like a Newt shot. Tell you wife its quite nice.
;)
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