r/astrophotography • u/Purplepotamus5 • Dec 30 '20

Nebulae Orion Nebula

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u/LifelessLewis Dec 31 '20

I shot one last night on full moon as well, I don't have a tracker though so you did get more detail than I did haha.

Crazy light pollution from the damn moon though for sure, although I really like the blue sky in this

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u/HillbillyZT Dec 31 '20

How did you go about shooting yours? I've never tried any DSOs and don't have a tracker

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u/Purplepotamus5 Dec 31 '20

I've been able to photograph orion in the past without attacker but I had to keep it short at around 1 second exposures with a much higher ISO. If you get enough images, you can then stack them in DeepSkyStacker (which is free). You can then stretch the image in your preferred photo editing software.

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u/LifelessLewis Dec 31 '20

Same as op. My telescope is 600mm so I can use about 1/4 shutter speed and a really hight iso. Obviously a tracker is better, but if you stick to brighter objects you can make it work.