I went to the lake district and set up my telescope. I was in a bit of a hurry and did a
very rushed job of the tracking, and a proper botched job of the focusing, but I did manage to get a shot that I am incredibly pleased with. This cannot be anything other than the Orion Nebula!!! And if this is only my first shot then it can only get better from here. This is a single RAW image that I have processed in Adobe Lightroom. I couldn't layer any of the shots I took because they were all different focuses and exposures, but a good start I think.
The next one is a picture of the M44 cluster. Now there is a lot of visual distortion in this shot. The stars in the middle are (nearly) in focus, but the ones around the edge are suffering from some fairly heavy optical distortion. In order to take these shots I plugged my camera
and it's lens into my telescope. I imagine that there is an idea focal length for everything and it will take a long time to calibrate, and I will have to get over the excitement of imaging before I will get it right!
No prizes for guessing who this little fella is!!! But I have to admit to cheating. I pushed my camera down the eye piece of the telescope, and this does
not count as astro-imaging, but I am very please that I have managed to take a cool looking shot of Saturn like this :D
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