Off to a great start
I just wanted to share with you my first deep-sky astrophoto, which I took by following the excellent guide to photographing the Orion Nebula with a DSLR camera on your website, written
Tolliday (bit.ly/M42DSLR). The exposure time and ISO settings advice was very useful. I used a WideSky 80S ED refractor telescope on a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi mount, with a
Canon EOS 2000D DSLR camera and the images were stacked in DeepSkyStacker. As
I have zero knowledge of Photoshop, I just messed around with it until I got an image I was happy with! Astrophotography seemed daunting to me, but I put the Orion Nebula at the top of my list of goals for this year. To capture it in my first ‘proper’ attempt means
from Paul – the splendid Orion Nebula
I’ll be out every clear night snapping away! Please pass my thanks on to Pete and David. Paul Ritchie, Stockton-on-Tees
Congratulations on ticking off one of your
New Year resolutions so early in the year, Paul!
Keep an eye on the magazine and website for more imaging advice. – Ed. legendary status. George’s final discovery, Nova V838 Herculis, was made on 25 March 1991 when he was 78 years old, and he was, once again, observing from indoors through a double-glazed window using 10x50 binoculars. I’m now 76 and, inspired by George, have been imaging objects for several years – again, like George, from indoors through doubleglazed windows. So it seems appropriate that I imaged comet C/2022 E3 ZTF in this way. There is much light pollution here in the direction of the rising comet, so the small loss of light through the glazing is not that significant.
Roger Samworth, Nuneaton