More Astrophotographs with the
500mm F/5.6 Mirror Lens
Another clear night on 8/6/05 allowed me to test the Celestron 500mm F/5.6 mirror lens some more. I got started shooting right after astronomical twilight ended. I am glad I got started early because later on in the night the haze got worse and the sky was really bright.. |
The Eagle Nebula. This is a cropped image of a stack of ten 130 second exposures at 800 ISO using the 500mm F5.6 lens. I used IRIS to do the stacking and processing of all the images I took on this night. IRIS is fast! I brought the pics into Photoshop to adjust the sky background with the levels. I then cropped it to about 60% of it's original size. |
M22 Globular Cluster in Sagittarius. This image is a stack of five 130 second exposures. This was my best image of the night, I think. I processed it the same way as the picture above. |
The Lagoon Nebula. This image is a stack of six 125 second exposures. |
The Dumbbell Nebula. This image is a stack of three 160 second exposures. I cropped this one more than the others, since this planetary nebula is small compared to the other objects I shot above. |
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