Orion Nebula Returns to Hunt again: Celestron 6" Newtonian 3X Barlow Canon 7D at ISO 640 and 60 second exposure. Tracking on the Celestron AVX mount, unguided and Single exposure.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Celestron 6" Newtonian 3X Barlow Canon 7D at ISO 640 and 60 second exposure. Tracking on the Celestron AVX mount, unguided and Single exposure.
Seeing was pretty good.

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SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Beautiful Jim!

Glad you found your pack up and play!

I could get my tracking on Orion Nebula tonight. PHD just wanted to go bonkers with it.
So I moved on.
Now I'm tearing down...
But it was a great night here!

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

SonnyE wrote:

Beautiful Jim!

Glad you found your pack up and play!

I could get my tracking on Orion Nebula tonight. PHD just wanted to go bonkers with it.
So I moved on.
Now I'm tearing down...
But it was a great night here!

Thanks Sonny,
No pack and go this is from my backyard.
Like Creedance Clearwater Revival once said...

"Wondrous apparitions provided by Magicians.. Do do do lookin out my back door."

I saw your Ring.. Purty dude.

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Celestron 6" Newtonian 3X Barlow Canon 7D at ISO 640 and 60 second exposure. Tracking on the Celestron AVX mount, unguided and Single exposure.
Seeing was pretty good.

Very nice job Jim. The Trapezium group of Stars are great.
Craig

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

I have to "WOW" the trap is great , what's your shooting sequence. how many sec for the Trapezium and how many for the nebulosity and how much binning did you do? Questions questions questions

Oknoder Loc: Western North Dakota

Beautiful capture of the core and it seems you have your mount dialed in quite well. I have the same scope and know how difficult it can be tracking cleanly over 30s with that sail on its back.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

CraigFair wrote:

Very nice job Jim. The Trapezium group of Stars are great.
Craig

Thanks Craig. It was tracking pretty well and I tweaked the weight just a quarter of an inch to clean it up a bit more. It's diffinately a different animal than I am used to. I feel more comfort with the SCT's but this is easier to see what I am shooting.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

stepping beyond wrote:

I have to "WOW" the trap is great , what's your shooting sequence. how many sec for the Trapezium and how many for the nebulosity and how much binning did you do? Questions questions questions

Uh I only shot single shots and tweaked in Lightroom.
Thank you very much. I guess I should learn to work more with layers.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Oknoder wrote:

Beautiful capture of the core and it seems you have your mount dialed in quite well. I have the same scope and know how difficult it can be tracking cleanly over 30s with that sail on its back.

Thank you very much.
As I mentioned in my post to Craig, I tweak my balance once I get a few shots in to get the tracking even closer. Celestron has it buried in the manual but it really helps. I would like to get the Trap dialed in a little bit sharper. This is my first effort with this scope doo have some getting used to quirk wise.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Uh I only shot single shots and tweaked in Lightroom.
Thank you very much. I guess I should learn to work more with layers.

I'm still at the point where layers are chickens that give me eggs......

Buk, buk, buk, BA-Duk!
Buk, buk,buk,buk,buk,buk-buk.... :shock:

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Uh I only shot single shots and tweaked in Lightroom.
Thank you very much. I guess I should learn to work more with layers.

Also when I stacked the first shot, I only loaded in the shots and took the defaults. I didn't shoot any differently for the shots that I stacked and didn't do any special processing before stacking. This was totally an experiment with a new feature in the online Lightroom.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

SonnyE wrote:

I'm still at the point where layers are chickens that give me eggs......

Buk, buk, buk, BA-Duk!
Buk, buk,buk,buk,buk,buk-buk.... :shock:

You and me both Sonny. You are ahead of me on the tracking curve though.
The only tracking I do is in the desert looking for lunch..
;) :shock:

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Also when I stacked the first shot, I only loaded in the shots and took the defaults. I didn't shoot any differently for the shots that I stacked and didn't do any special processing before stacking. This was totally an experiment with a new feature in the online Lightroom.

This was supposed to be on my shot of the Andromeda that I posted. I don't know how it locked here.