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Finally got a decent shot of the Orion Nebula after months of blurry mess
For the first six months, I'd just point my basic telescope and my phone at the sky from my backyard in Tacoma, getting nothing but fuzzy gray smudges. I finally saved up and got a proper motorized mount and a cheap guide camera about three weeks ago. Last night, after stacking fifty 30-second exposures, the colors and detail just popped out at me. Anyone have tips for bringing out more of the faint outer gas clouds?
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charles_green959d agoMost Upvoted
Yeah, longer subs are the way to go for that faint stuff... you might even push those 30-second ones out to a minute or two if your tracking can handle it. The outer gas is just so dim it needs that extra time to build up in each shot. I had to fight with my own mount for weeks to get it steady enough for that. It's a pain but the difference in the final stack is crazy.
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robin_bennett7814d ago
Nice work getting that mount! For the outer stuff, you might want to try longer exposures, not just more of them.
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