An old friend

Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am). To be honest, I
was so tired I can't remember how many frames I used in the stack (I
think it was 4 - max ISO 800). I'll have another go when I feel less
tired. It's clear again tonight but I think my energy is finally
beginning to run out

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/DSO/M42-Nov04.html

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Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

Outstanding!


"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am). To be honest, I
was so tired I can't remember how many frames I used in the stack (I
think it was 4 - max ISO 800). I'll have another go when I feel less
tired. It's clear again tonight but I think my energy is finally
beginning to run out

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/DSO/M42-Nov04.html

--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

Pete Lawrence wrote:

Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go.

Fantastic, even by your high standards Pete.


Tim
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Anyone who qualifies their comments with "just my
two cents" is usually over-valuing their contribution.

Do you ever take any bad photos?

Nice job again!

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
And the Lunar Picture of the Day http://www.lpod.org/
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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
...
Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am). To be honest, I
was so tired I can't remember how many frames I used in the stack (I
think it was 4 - max ISO 800). I'll have another go when I feel less
tired. It's clear again tonight but I think my energy is finally
beginning to run out

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/DSO/M42-Nov04.html

--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

Very nice indeed Pete... hope you post it in abpa the guys would like it.
Kev

"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am). To be honest, I
was so tired I can't remember how many frames I used in the stack (I
think it was 4 - max ISO 800). I'll have another go when I feel less
tired. It's clear again tonight but I think my energy is finally
beginning to run out

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/DSO/M42-Nov04.html

--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

Beautiful shots.


"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
...
Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am). To be honest, I
was so tired I can't remember how many frames I used in the stack (I
think it was 4 - max ISO 800). I'll have another go when I feel less
tired. It's clear again tonight but I think my energy is finally
beginning to run out

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/DSO/M42-Nov04.html

--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

In article ,
burbled happily...

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am).

WOW!

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Craig Oldfield

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:58:50 -0800, "CLT" not@thisaddress wrote:

Do you ever take any bad photos?

Nice job again!

I've got about 30 of them from last night. I went to bed early
against clear skies, felt guilty in the middle of the night and
wandered out about 3am. Took a complete bracketted sequence of images
only to find that my state of tiredness had made me sloppy on the
focus. I needn't have bothered

Still, you never get to see these do you ;-)

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Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

Pete Lawrence wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:58:50 -0800, "CLT" not@thisaddress wrote:

Do you ever take any bad photos?

I've got about 30 of them from last night.

Ha! I beat you! I got about 200 bad photos last night Admittedly
they were all attempts at drift alignment before I worked out that the
f*ing clock drive is off. I McGuyvered a variable power supply to
correct it, but the PC PSU I used had a dodgy connector which made it
all a bit tricky. I gave up when the camera battery died, with a grand
total of 0 untrailed shots 30s. I might just take a bunch of
untracked short exposures and stack 'em tonight, SNR be damned!


Tim
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Anyone who qualifies their comments with "just my
two cents" is usually over-valuing their contribution.

Pete,

Was that shot taken with your FL102S?

Bill G.


"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
...
Got my first DSLR in time to see Orion disappear into the evening
twilight at the beginning of this year. Did have a quick go at M42
back then but nothing serious.

Last night was beautiful, clear and cold so I decided to give it
another go. A load of M42 shots to assemble. Here's a quick result
put together just after the session finished (~4am). To be honest, I
was so tired I can't remember how many frames I used in the stack (I
think it was 4 - max ISO 800). I'll have another go when I feel less
tired. It's clear again tonight but I think my energy is finally
beginning to run out

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/DSO/M42-Nov04.html

--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Home of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project