Sunday, July 24, 2011

Venturing into astrophotography

Getting into this hobby is not simple. A couple of months ago I started spending more time, in fact, lots of my time on astronomy. From Visual to Astrophotography, it was indeed not just so simple as pointing the camera and shooting the skies. The data capturing was ok, the challenging part is to process the pictures and acquire a satisfactory "end product".
I got a couple of files online and intending to borrow a book on Photoshop for Astronomy.
Hopefully after reading them I can at least have a better understanding about how to proper process my data...

Friday, July 15, 2011

Back to Mersing for the 3rd time

We are going back to Mersing this end July and this time round we are going for a 4 days 3 nights trip.
With 3 full nights of data capturing, I'm sure we will be able to put some night astro objects into our frames.
This time round it will be first light for my FSQ85ED and also a 2nd hand EOS500D Badder IR/UV modified DSLR.
I am aiming to capture at least 6 targets this trip and if possible 9 depending on the skie conditions.

Stay tuned for more updates

Elton

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Back to Mersing!

Last weekend we revisited Mersing for the 2nd time and was treated to 2 full nights of darkness under the starry skies.
These are the photos taken