Orion Nebula (M42), taken in Brighton, MA.
Camera settings: 70-300mm lens @ 200mm, F/5.6, 1.6 sec. per frame, 300 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, a free software for stacking astrophotographs to increase the s/n ratio.
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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy passing as close as 8° to Pleiades. Taken at McDermott Court at MIT.
Camera settings: 50mm F/1.4 lens @ F/2.2, 2 sec. per frame, 682 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with 54 dark, 30 flat, 64 dark flat, and 100 offset frames subtracted.
Stacking settings: comet stacking, average mode, center 50% cropped, 2x drizzle.
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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, taken at McDermott Court at MIT.
Camera settings: 50mm F/1.4 lens @ F/2.2, 2 sec. per frame, 641 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with 98 dark, 30 flat, 64 dark flat, and 100 offset frames subtracted.
Stacking settings: comet stacking, average mode, center ~40% cropped, 2x drizzle.
Tags: Comet comet c/2014 q2 lovejoy comet lovejoy photo stacking DeepSkyStacker DSS astrophotography astronomy Astrometrydotnet:id=nova973498 Astrometrydotnet:status=solved
taken at McDermott Court at MIT.
Camera settings: 70-300mm lens @ 300mm, F/5.6, 2 sec. per frame, 144 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with dark, flat, and offset frames subtracted.
Tags: Orion Orion Nebula Orion's Sword M42 Messier 42 Messier object DSS DeepSkyStacker photo stacking astrophotography astronomy Astrometrydotnet:id=nova971284 Astrometrydotnet:status=solved
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, taken at McDermott Court at MIT.
Camera settings: 70-300mm lens @ 228mm, F/5.6, 2 sec. per frame, 360 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with dark, flat, and offset frames subtracted.
Tags: comet comet C/2014 Q2 lovejoy photo stacking DeepSkyStacker DSS astrophotography astronomy Astrometrydotnet:id=nova970885 Astrometrydotnet:status=solved