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David Mingay | all galleries >> Mynd Dagsins '15 >> Photo of the Day 2008 > Oct 31: Orion Nebula
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01-NOV-2008 David Mingay

Oct 31: Orion Nebula

OK, an extremely bad picture of the Orion Nebula. Probably the worst you'll ever see. With the camera and telephoto piggy-backed on my telescope, its poor little equatorial mount was under a bit more load than it was designed for. And with no motor to compensate for the rotation of the earth I tracked manually for the '60 elephant' exposure with the slow motion controls. It *almost* worked. I need a bigger, motorized mount for this. Also I need a longer exposure, probably several exposures, all accurately tracked and stacked on the computer.

Canon EOS 20D
60s f/8.0 at 252.0mm iso800 hide exif
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Date/Time01-Nov-2008 00:39:09
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length252 mm
Exposure Time60.00 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent800
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programprogram (1)
Focus Distance

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Michael Todd Thorpe25-Nov-2008 19:37
"Elephants!" :-) I was wondering if you'd tried anything like this. I don't know enough about it, other than it has to track over the exposure... I can't wait to see what you get when you have it all working nicely.