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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-23-2012, 06:49 PM
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This post was in response to this question on page 5 of this thread.
"Telfish --
How did you attach the K-5 to the Hyperstar? I'm looking at the Celestron CPC Deluxe HD 1100 and I'm hoping to be able to use my K-5 for imaging. But I haven't seen that there is a k-mount adaptor for the Hyperstar. Any help would be *Greatly* appreciated!
thanks,
-- Steve."
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-23-2012, 06:37 PM
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I ordered an adapter from Starzonia. They made it for me and just charged the normal price, nice guys.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-07-2011, 03:48 PM
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Thanks guys,
There is an great deal more lurking there that I was unable to bring out of a single shot, Some of it is lost in the sky glow caused by a bright moon only a little way away from the Galaxy. Next time I will do more shots and lower the iso to 100. This shot was at 800 so there is some noise.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-07-2011, 08:30 AM
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Over the last year I have been trying to build a setup to do deep sky imaging. This is the first quick and dirty image from my K5.
It shows the Andromeda galaxy M31. This is the largest apparent galaxy and is about 5 full moon widths wide. it's just about naked eye visible from a dark site. Distance from earth 2,5000,000 light years and contains over a trillion stars. It was taken using my Celestron C11 scope with a hyperstar attachment taken at F2 and around 560 mm focal length.
This is just one 30 second exposure and is not stacked. I just did my best in photoshop and lightroom to bring out the details. This image shows the inner brighter part of the galaxy, you can just make out the faint outer areas and the dark dust lanes, a multiple stacked image will bring out those fainter areas. There was a bright moon washing out this part of the sky and I have some light pollution where I live, so I can do much better than this. Will post another better try when I get a decent night.
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