Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
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Date | : | 26 Jul 06 |
Optical system | : | Canon Ultrasonic EF 24-85mm F3.5-4.5 zoom lens + unmodd Canon EOS 350D body |
Effective F.L. & F ratio | : | 24mm @ F5.6 |
Mount | : | Vixen GP equatorial |
Camera setting | : | Jpeg format @ iso400 w/ NR off |
Total exposure | : | 3 x 480s |
Guiding | : | Unguided |
Stacking & processing | : | Stacking in Registax 3.0, Level & Curve stretching in Photoshop 7.0. |
Sky & Air conditions | : | T = 8/10 @ temp ~ -2 oC, heavy dew |
Place of photographing | : | Coonabarabran, Australia |
Remark |
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A test shot to see how an unmodd DSLR w/o noise reduction could do the job in wide field at temperature below zero and with very low level of light pollution |
Comments after test :
This final image looks not too bad except lacking of H-alpha light in LMC.
Personally, I prefer wide field imaging with films, especially E200s.
Wish a modd DSLR could improve it, and maybe one day, I would remove the built-in IR blocking filter for grabbing more H-alpha light, if I kept using DSLR for deep sky imaging.
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