2013 Lunar eclipse

[Gianluca Molina]

I worked out a partial raw Eclipse di Luna of 25 April 2013


The image was taken with a Canon 40D at the focus of a refractor SkyWatcher 120 ACHRO (focal 1000) positioned on an equatorial mount HEQ5


Laying from 1/250 sec., ISO400 f / 8.3

[Diane Miller]

Very nice!! It must be great to have a real telescope and a real EQ mount. I hope you'll post more!

I'm new to astro photography and hoping to get the Rosette Nebula in the next few nights.

[Gianluca Molina]

Can I post a picture of the instrument?
I have changed a lot ..... is a bit 'a disease! :t3


The photos of the deep sky are much more complex :e3

[Diane Miller]

I'm one of the new people around here but I think it would be fine to post in this thread.... Anyone have any objections??

I've also been modifying my Astrotrac for 8 months -- hope it's finally ready to use!

I'm using a much simpler process for deep sky objects, thanks to the new Canon 7D2. This guy knows what he is talking about.

http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.astrophoto-1/web/comet-lovejoy-rnclark-mauna-kea-c01.15.2015.0J6A3169-89_h-c1-1400us.html

[Gianluca Molina]

Yes, this a composition integral lunar eclipse (is very large pixel!)
http://www.fotonaturalistica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/eclissi-Luna-Aprile-20131.jpg

[Morkel Erasmus]

A classic moon image with great detail and quality.
Please do post more of your "telescope" shots here...

[Gianluca Molina]

Ok!

My old telescope (Lunar eclipse 2013 was photographed with him)

[Gianluca Molina]

And this is the new telescope Tecnosky 110Ed that currently use

[Diane Miller]

From the size of the tripod and counterweights, that looks like a serious piece of equipment.

What camera and processing are you using?

[Gianluca Molina]

At the time, use a Canon 40D.

Processing: Canon DPP and GIMP

[Diane Miller]

So it sounds like you're not using the traditional astronomy capture and processing software -- things like Deep Sky Stacker, Nebulosity, Pixinsight or the like? They're meant for various corrections that now are apparently much less (or not at all) necessary with the latest digital cameras and the correction abilities in Adobe Camera Raw / Lightroom (but not other raw converters).

That's something I'm just starting to explore. I got tired of shooting a hundred darks, flats and biases, and shooting the actual astro shots in a format that couldn't also be read in a regular raw converter. Then I backed away from it when I read that the dark frame correction methods of these programs didn't work properly with the newer Canon cameras and could do more harm than good, when it's automatic for each frame in LR / ACR.

So astro processing is looking simpler now.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Gianluca, welcome to the Landscape forum...I can only echo that I do hope you'll post more telescope imagery soon...this moon capture is quite lovely...looking forward to future posts :)

[Gianluca Molina]

Hi Andrew!.

More astro image? ok :)

This my first experience of deep sky image: the Orion Nebula M42

photo shooting witch telescope "Tecnocky 110ED" + EQ mount HEQ5 (tripod reinforced with wood) + Canon EOS 1D Mark IIn

The photos were added together with the program "DeepSkyStacker" and final elaboration witch Gimp