Originally posted by Roadboat24 Very Nice effort. Especially with that equipment. You have Wayyyyy more patients than myself.
From what I’ve experienced later on, it’s actually pretty good, just shows the capabilities of a Pentax camera
I have not ben able to do 50sec exposures other than this one time. Everything must have been comming together, calibration and the position of the galaxies.
Originally posted by fsge Did you test your skills on other galaxies?
I’ve never been that deep, but the Orion Nebula with the K-70/DA*300:
Running man/Horsehead Nebula, with the M200 f4:
The final Whirlpool picture after stacking the frames:
I’ve also got some pictures of the Andromeda Galaxy, I got a M42 Super Takumar 200mm f4 lens, but I’m not satisfied with the post processing (lack of Pixinsight competences).
Then I upgraded, still using my K=70:
Now it looks like this:
And I’m soooo happy