M42 - One year's progress!

pipplo

Dec 24, 2016 — 1 min read

Winter has returned, and with it, a chance to look back on the progress I made this year. M42 was one of my very first attempts at astrophotography!

This week I was able to capture 57 minutes of exposure with the telescope, thats a huge increase over January’s 34 seconds! I’m getting a lot better at setup/alignment, etc and the cool weather has significantly reduced the noise in the images. I’ll need to have a cooled camera for summer!

You might remember this shot from January:

Telescope: At72ed

Camera: Canon 70D

Mount: Celestron AVX

57x60s exposure @ISO800

Round Top Peak

Round Top was only my second 10k peak summit attempt (my first attempt being the nearby Red Lake peak). At Red Lake we were never able to get GPS over 10k ft for some reason. I think we didn’t find the true summit after searching around for a while,

M31 - Andromeda

Deneb Widefield

Tonight I decided to try something a little bit different. I show a wider field image with an 85mm lens instead of the telescope. The coloring is very red, but I’m not sure how much is due to Light Pollution or not. There are definitely some dusty structures visible.

M51 Whirlpool Process

I wanted to share some of the different steps of the image taking process I used for M51. There are 4 different types of images taken to generate the single output image * Lights: These are the photos of the galaxy as you would expect * Darks: These are photos with the

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Round Top Peak

M31 - Andromeda

Deneb Widefield

M51 Whirlpool Process