Hey Reddit! My name’s Rudy, I’m 17 and I’m an amateur astrophotographer operating in the French Alps.
This is a photo I took of the Orion Nebula, Messier 42, and it’s one of my best astrophotos yet. The Orion Nebula is a huge star forming region ~1500 light years from Earth, and is one of the brightest nebulae in the sky, visible to the naked eye in a dark enough location. I took this image using my own telescope, from my backyard. More details below.
Here’s a list of the gear I used to take this shot (visible on the second slide of this post) :
• Nikon D5600 (Astrodon modified)
• Skywatcher 72ED + OVL field flattener
• Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
• TS Optics 60mm guidescope
• ZWO ASI120MC-S guide camera
• ZWO ASIAIR Mini
I collected about 5 hours worth of 3 minute exposures as well as several 30 second exposures to avoid completely blowing out the core of the nebula (it’s very bright). Image was processed using Deep Sky Stacker, Siril, Starnet++ and GIMP. Data was acquired from a Bortle 4 light pollution zone.
Hope you enjoy!
jawnjawnthejawnjawn on
Is this a false color image? Or how it appears directly observed? It looks magnificent
Feine13 on
Jfc, even the view of the mountains from your yard is incredible.
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Hey Reddit! My name’s Rudy, I’m 17 and I’m an amateur astrophotographer operating in the French Alps.
This is a photo I took of the Orion Nebula, Messier 42, and it’s one of my best astrophotos yet. The Orion Nebula is a huge star forming region ~1500 light years from Earth, and is one of the brightest nebulae in the sky, visible to the naked eye in a dark enough location. I took this image using my own telescope, from my backyard. More details below.
Here’s a list of the gear I used to take this shot (visible on the second slide of this post) :
• Nikon D5600 (Astrodon modified)
• Skywatcher 72ED + OVL field flattener
• Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
• TS Optics 60mm guidescope
• ZWO ASI120MC-S guide camera
• ZWO ASIAIR Mini
I collected about 5 hours worth of 3 minute exposures as well as several 30 second exposures to avoid completely blowing out the core of the nebula (it’s very bright). Image was processed using Deep Sky Stacker, Siril, Starnet++ and GIMP. Data was acquired from a Bortle 4 light pollution zone.
Hope you enjoy!
Is this a false color image? Or how it appears directly observed? It looks magnificent
Jfc, even the view of the mountains from your yard is incredible.
Excellent photos all around, OP
So. How much does that nice of a telescope cost?