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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 07.05.2015, 19:36 | Message # 481 |
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| Quote pzampella (  ) Canon Rebel EOS T5
That certainly has mirror lockup, so you have no problem there. Find it in somewhere in the advanced settings and map it to your custom menu. Refer to the user manual if necessary.
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| pzampella | Date: Thursday, 07.05.2015, 19:42 | Message # 482 |
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| HarbingerDawn, That's a relief, thank you! At this moment I don't have the camera in my hands but I have read in a forum that it did not have this feature. Thanks God it wasn't truth!
Edited by pzampella - Thursday, 07.05.2015, 19:43 |
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| midtskogen | Date: Thursday, 07.05.2015, 20:05 | Message # 483 |
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| As Harb says, a tripod doesn't help, but if you have a very short exposure time (say, 1/1000s), the problem is reduced. But with f/8 you don't get these short exposures unless you photograph the sun with a relatively weak ND filter.
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 07.05.2015, 21:35 | Message # 484 |
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| Quote pzampella ( ) I don't have the camera in my hands but I have read in a forum that it did not have this feature.
Well, it's possible that I'm wrong, but I used to have the Canon Rebel XS, which was an earlier model in the same product line, and it had that feature, and my current Rebel T3i also has it, so it would be extremely weird for the T5 to not have it.
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| astroniki | Date: Monday, 18.05.2015, 20:55 | Message # 485 |
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| So i used a remote telescope at itelescope.net to capture this 10x300s image of M16
That's from a upgraded demo account I've spent a few bucks on.
Better deal than buying hardware for tens of thousands of dollars 
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| Watsisname | Date: Friday, 22.05.2015, 07:54 | Message # 486 |
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| Awesome image! Those remote telescopes seem like a pretty good deal.
How do the preparations for data collection work? Do you choose filters, observing period and calculate exposure times yourself?
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| astroniki | Date: Friday, 22.05.2015, 08:06 | Message # 487 |
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| The telescope i used has a color camera, so i just input the exposure time and amount of frames. Very easy to do, and there are some video tutorials on the site.
You get 50 points i think for the free demo and another 30 points if you pay 5 aud for the extended demo that gives you access the raw data, so you can process the images properly. Better telescopes (with filters ect) cost more points per hour. This one is 4x300s and the cost was 16 points so there's some noise in the darker parts. The nebula was at the edge of the frame so i complained and got a refund :P Still managed to squeeze a nice picture out of it.
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| pzampella | Date: Tuesday, 02.06.2015, 13:18 | Message # 488 |
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| Would it be possible to photograph the Cat's Eye Nebula with a 75-300mm lens (f/4-5.6) and no equatorial mount?
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| astroniki | Date: Tuesday, 02.06.2015, 20:09 | Message # 489 |
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| I doubt you could get any hint of it without tracking. Its a very small nebula, so even on a tracking mount it would appear star-like on that lens. You can try shooting comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy while it's near Polaris. When shooting near the celestial poles you won't need a tracking mount to get a long exposure whit minimal star trails.
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| Watsisname | Date: Tuesday, 02.06.2015, 21:11 | Message # 490 |
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| In short, yes, but don't expect it to see much of its structural detail.
Your biggest challenge is that the Cat's Eye is very small: the brighter central region of it is only about 20 arcseconds across, versus 36 arcmin for Omega Centuari. Even going the full 300mm, it's going to be about 1/100th the size of your earlier capture of Omega Centauri.
On the positive side, even though the Cat's Eye is fainter (~8th mag vs 4th for Omega Cen), its small size means it has much higher surface brightness (by about 40 or 50x). So it should be visible, if even as a fuzzy star-like object.
If you try it, use the same method as before: high zoom, high ISO, longest exposure you can without trailing, and stack a large number of images.
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| astroniki | Date: Wednesday, 03.06.2015, 00:29 | Message # 491 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) same method as before
Ah, i missed the earlier shots. Well you can definetley get it, but as Watsisname said, it's a small target for an 300mm.
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| SonofStars | Date: Monday, 22.06.2015, 03:31 | Message # 492 |
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| Rhysy27 | Date: Monday, 22.06.2015, 03:48 | Message # 493 |
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| I made this video that basically showcases areas around Cornwall, under the night sky, as well as a narrative I wrote (apart from the ending Carl Sagan quote). The audio isn't as good as it could have been and can be a tad quiet but it's not too bad.
After finishing this video and then calculating all the mileage I traveled for the different areas, it turns out I traveled around 750 miles!  A few of the locations come with a story each, but maybe that's something for another time 
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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| astroniki | Date: Tuesday, 23.06.2015, 06:48 | Message # 494 |
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| Here's another photo from itelescope.net The North America and Pelican nebulae.
This time i used telescope t20 which is brighter and has lower magnification so seeing is not an issue and the image is very sharp. 300s through Red, Green, Blue, and H alpha filters. And I've ran out of points so i might be buying a regular membership later.
I'll use these to make models for Space Engine.
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| Salvo | Date: Tuesday, 23.06.2015, 07:57 | Message # 495 |
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| Quote astroniki ( ) Here's another photo from itelescope.net
OMG It's... awesome 
Why don't you do a stream on YouTube/Twich and we go through the universe all together?
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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