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GUEST DEEPSKY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 22 June 2007

Some ETX users have sent me examples of their astrophotography. If you have some examples you would like included here please send me a description of how you made the astrophotos and a copy of the images as GIF or JPEG files (due to internet email gateway issues, please send only one image file per message). Send to etx@me.com. Alternatively, if you have created your own web page with your examples please let me know and I'll include a link to your site. You will also find astrophotography examples on the Helpful Information - Astrophotography page.

Submitted by: Renee Ann Wirick (reneeannwirick@yahoo.com) [22 Jun 07]
Sorry to be away so long but I had the ETX80-AT in to Meade for repairs. What a hassle-they sent me a new one to my APO box, but it got lost in the mail so they insisted it be sent UPS so it had to be sent to my parents' house in Los Angeles and then it got mailed here overseas priority and only took 5 days. The first time Meade sent it it took over 2 months and never arrived, being sent USPS parcel post. Maybe someone in Iraq has a nice new telescope! So, at any rate here is last night's work. I was really having trouble getting the exposure right, there was a bunch of the nast orange street lights shinging in but I have mt scope back and could go out and I am happy enough with the result from the DSI last night!

Submitted by: Stephan Krah (stephan.krah@T-Online.de) [23 May 07]
was lucky yesterday with clear sky. Took the chance to shoot M104, Sombrero Galaxy. From southern Germany its rather close to Horizon. Took me 240 shots with 30s to stack 10 good ones. Heres the result (rotated as we know it) after some contrast and Gamma correction, hope you like it. Configuration: ETX125 with Meade DSI, IR Filter and 0.5 focal reducer. Hope its worth to be posted. Thanks for your great site.

Submitted by: Stephan Krah (stephan.krah@T-Online.de) [7 May 07]
Weather has been fine the last 6 weeks in Germany and I did some shots, I wanted to send to you. M42 is much recognized and a very nice object for any telescope. Nevertheless, it was not so easy to shoot, for it is too bright. Attached you find a mosaic, consisting of 6 stacked shots. Stack of 20s shots each to show the faint outer zones. Stack of 6s shots to show details of the core. The core was matched to 20s result and the edges smoothed with Paint shop pro. I hope you like it and its worth to be posted. Configuration: ETX125 with Meade DSI, IR Filter and 0.5 focal reducer.

attached you find the results of shooting M63. No problem to get the core, but difficult to make the outer structure more visible. Took me some work with Paintshop to enhance the contrast and brightness. Gamma was RGB modified. Result was done with a Stack of 15 shots, 30s each. Configuration: ETX125 with Meade DSI, IR Filter and 0.5 focal reducer

I tried to get a good shot of M94. The Result was not 100% satisfying. Was not possible to make the outer spiral structure visible. The core is bright and easy to see. Stack of 30s shots. Configuration: ETX125 with Meade DSI, IR Filter and 0.5 focal reducer

I tried to shoot NGC2903, a rather bright object with bright spiral structure. Very rewarding nice galaxy. Stack of 20 shots 30s each out of 148. Configuration: ETX125 with Meade DSI, IR Filter and 0.5 focal reducer I hope you like it and its worth to be posted. Thank you for your great site. Best regards from Germany

Submitted by: N Mukkavilli (n_mukkavilli@yahoo.com.au) [17 Apr 07]
Here are three Messier Objects -M65 and 66 in the one image and M 83 in the second- imaged with an ETX 70 and an Orion Starshoot. The location was a dark site about three hours from Sydney. The ETX70 was on a 884 mount (polar mode). Each image represents about 40 minutes of total exposure-20 minutes in B+W (used as luminance) and 20 minutes in RGB colour. If you like these please consider adding to your guest astrophotography pages. The ETX 70 continues to deliver hours of satisfying astronomy as far as I am concerned !

Submitted by: N Mukkavilli (n_mukkavilli@yahoo.com.au) [28 Feb 07]
attached are a few recent images with my ETX70 on an 884 tripod (polar mode) and an Orion DeepSpace Imager. 30 second sub frames, at least 30 minutes of raw exposure, better frames selected for stacking and processing. I have collected all my images with this combination of camera and scope and posted at my photobucket account: http://s91.photobucket.com/albums/k282/n_mukkavilli/ hope you like these images enough to share with other visitors to your site