Orion Nebula by AstronomyMan

Photography • Space • posted on Sep 20, 2006

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Finally Orion is back in my night sky. Taken with a really cheap ST80 telescope and a really expensive cooled CCD camera. Exposure is 10 minutes total. Taken as 20 x 30 sec exposures using my Kleenex supply to wipe the dew off the telescope lens between every shot. Us astrophotographers are dedicated, stupid or just wierd. Whatever, we do it all night long so that cannot be bad.

Comments (8)

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Georges_H_Hoens

12:20PM | Wed, 20 September 2006

I love astrophotography but I do not practice it... too complicated for me ;) Whatever, I admire when someone can perform such good shot. Thanks for sharing and good evening to you, G.

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inshaala

12:21PM | Wed, 20 September 2006

wow... amazing that you can do that! cant be too much of a cheap telescope, i remember having a cheap one as a kid and orion's nebula was just the same as a star in my vision, maybe just a bit of a colour difference! Would be interesting to see how all this is done, because you have to account for the earth's rotation as well! Good job :)

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TwoPynts

1:03PM | Wed, 20 September 2006

I so love it when you post one of your celestial images. The Orion nebula is a fav of mine...so this image of it really impresses me. Thanks for sharing!

thevolunteer

1:27PM | Wed, 20 September 2006

Fantastic image. I love looking at the Universe. It is so mysterious. Great job. Aloha

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mamabobbijo

2:05PM | Wed, 20 September 2006

Amazing! I took the time to read your blurb, I thought these were created. Well i mean rendered. I can't believe they are photos! Thanks for sharing. I have a life long love affair with the cosmos. BJ

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Sans2012

10:18PM | Wed, 20 September 2006

Wonderful capture:) I really want to try this one day, ah, night:) Thanks for sharing.

Rowens

2:09AM | Mon, 25 September 2006

Awesome shot! Thank so very much for sharing it!!

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nathalie06

12:27PM | Wed, 01 November 2006

Wonderful to see Orion Nebula in this way !!!! I'm impressed by your photographies of our sky. Astonomy is really a very interesting and dreamy science, and each night I could I stay for a few moment to read the big book of the sky, where ever I am... Orion and the Pleiades are my favorites ones..... Thank you for this moment of relax and dream. To look at the sky is always a very peaceful and pleasant moment for me.