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The Orion Nebula via DSLR Camera

I took a number of images of the nebula, playing around with the exposure and ISO settings.

Inspired by other blogs such as Heads UP! taking cool pictures of Venus near the Pleiades, I knew I had to get in on the action myself.

February 2, 2020 Paul 1322 Views 0 Comments DSLR, Moon

It will be a fun year. Jupiter and Saturn’s oppositions are a mere five months away. Mars returns to opposition this year.

Not too early, but early enough. Here was the Quarter Moon rising over Lake Michigan today, early afternoon.

This is a very exciting post, at least for me. It’s the first time on my blog that I have a picture of Jupiter and Saturn together!

Planetary (as well as deep sky) imaging requires stacking multiple picture frames, either actual still images or the frames from a video.

Another benefit, I believe, of the new camera is that I can finally process a Drizzle in Autostakkert.

But then I thought, what if I chose only two of the videos instead of the full three?

August 3, 2019 Paul 1524 Views 0 Comments Mars

Mars may be gone for now, but it is not forgotten to me.

As I had not filmed Saturn since last year, I was very worried that the results would not be good.