I don't do a lot of astrophotography, but last night we had good skies at Eastman Lake so I did some wide-field piggyback stuff with my 35-mm camera (seriously). When I was done, Orion was high enough to try a few shots with my DSLR.
I used an Olympus E-5 at prime focus of my Celestron C5+ with 0.63x focal reducer (--> 790 mm focal length [1580-mm equivalent] @ f/6.3), ISO 1600, 60 seconds. The only editing was a slight increase in contrast to blacken the background (i.e primitive noise reduction).
This is just one image. A few dozen images stacked would give better results, but I only got a couple more because it was time to come home.
I used an Olympus E-5 at prime focus of my Celestron C5+ with 0.63x focal reducer (--> 790 mm focal length [1580-mm equivalent] @ f/6.3), ISO 1600, 60 seconds. The only editing was a slight increase in contrast to blacken the background (i.e primitive noise reduction).
This is just one image. A few dozen images stacked would give better results, but I only got a couple more because it was time to come home.
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