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Thank you Jorge!

Thanks Wayne!

Nice one Samy! Looks like you caught it at the perfect time of day...where there's just a hint of twilight left in the sky. Well composed! What city is this by the way?

Fantastic! One suggestion for improvement though: frame it and put it on a wall! :) This is truly perfect! Congratulations!

The Flame Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula, shot with a 300mm lens on a

Rebel T3i, riding piggyback on a Meade LX-50. Thanks for any comments!

The two brightest stars in this image are the two left stars of Orion's belt. The leftmost star (Alnitak) illuminates the cream-coloured Flame Nebula. The third brightest star, Sigma Orionis, located to Alnitaks's lower right, illuminates the red nebula to it's left. The small black mark intruding on the red nebula's left is the Horsehead nebula.

This image is a stack of 4 separate images, the longest being a 7.5 minute exposure at ISO1600. All were shot with a Canon Rebel T3i and a 300mm lens, riding piggyback on an 8" Meade LX-50 telescope.

Click to view the high-res version.

Thanks for any feedback. Enjoy!

Thanks Charles! Good luck with your attempt! Cheers, Scott

Thanks Gregory and Verena! The colours are naturally occurring, though I did slightly boost saturation. Hydrogen is red, oxygen blue-green.

Thanks Wayne! Astrophotography must be the most technically challenging type of photography there is. All so we can produce shots that we have very little compositional control over, except for how we crop it. Crazy!

Thanks everyone! I love astronomy, as you can probably tell from my portfolio.

Thanks everyone!

Thank you Barbara!

Thanks very much everyone! It's a challenging place to shoot...the security guards come after you as soon as they see you taking pictures.

Grazie Barbara!

Thanks Wayne!!! :)

..oh, and please click to view larger!

The Great Orion Nebula, a beautiful stellar nursery approximately 1345 light years away. 

This image was shot with a Rebel T3i with a 300mm lens, riding piggyback on a Meade LX50 telescope. Two images were used: an 11 second exposure to capture details in the center, and a 156 second exposure to capture the outer regions. Both shots were f/5.6 at ISO 800, then processed using Paint Shop Pro and Capture NX2. Enjoy!

Thankyou Carlos and Gregory! There are some brighter, larger objects in the sky like this one that can be photographed with a camera and lens. The trick is to have it follow the stars as they move across the sky, which is where the fancy telescope comes in handy.

Cheers,
Scott

I'm finally venturing into deep sky photography using my telescope as a

tracking platform. Enjoy!

Wider in the sky than 5 full moons, the Andromeda Galaxy is the furthest away object that most people can see without a telescope (2.5 million light years). It takes light over 200,000 years to go from one side to the other, it's that big. This was shot using a 70-300mm zoom lens, zoomed to 160mm, riding piggyback on a telescope so it could follow the stars across the sky for 4.5 minutes. ISO 1600. Click to view larger!

Thank you Pierre!

Thanks for any constructive comments or suggestions! The Pantheon has

the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, yet it was first built in

27 BC! Incredible!

This is from my first wedding shoot ever, so be gentle! Thanks for your

comments and suggestions, Scott

Thanks very much for the helpful comments gentlemen. Greatly appreciated. I'll be posting a revised version soon. Thanks again, Scott.