Equipment:
Telescope : Takahashi FSQ106
Mount : Taahashi EM200 Temma II Jr
Camera : Canon 350D - Baader modified
Filter : Hutech IDAS Light Polluton Filter
Exposure : 10x72s
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Thank you all, for the wonderful comments and votes!
This is my first ribbon and naturally I am glad, if not very glad.
As 2008 is almost gone this 1st place in a DP-Challenge is a great gift for me!
This was really not an easy image to achieve. It was first light pollution, as the sky was illuminated by 3/4 of the full Moon, but mainly I was freezing as temperature was steadily between 0 and 3 degrees Celsius (32 to 37 degrees Fahrenheit) and I was out in the cold standing still for almost 6 hours. Of course this image is a stack of only 12 minutes total exposure, but in that clear night I had taken more than 150 exposures of Rosette and other Deep Sky Objects.
Finally, processing was long, because 10 exposures are not enough to eliminate the noise.
Statistics
Place: 1 out of 87 Avg (all users): 6.6688 Avg (commenters): 8.0000 Avg (participants): 6.6957 Avg (non-participants): 6.6577 Views since voting: 9342 Views during voting: 371 Votes: 157 Comments: 54 Favorites: 9 (view)
Update to my previous comment-- congratulations on winning. I'm glad to see DPC finally recognize a proper astrophoto. I am quite surprised that it was voted into first place, only because astrophotos usually tank on this site-- it truly is an excellent image. I'm sure it also helps to hide the only-10-subs noise by shrinking it to 640x480 :)
The FSQ 106 is an outstanding scope, and color me jealous of your EM200 mount! That is a serious amount of money though, it ought to produce awesome images :)
Congrats Pascal, a great shot. One worthy of a submission to APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) Link here, //antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html. We have a true astrophotographer amongst us.
Ohmy! You HAD to be the winner of this challenge! There could have been no other choice. This certainly measures up to your phenomenal talent in this genre! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
There you go with that Canon again. He-he. Nice work Paschalis. I'm glad to see your enjoyment of astronomy and photography coming together to create such appealing imagery.
Well, I really think they wanted to see stars that were not in the sky. But, your photo is awesome and I know the difficulty photos like this can cause. And the expense! Excellent: 10
Nice rosette.. good thing you had advanced editing in your favor. Looks like you used a modded DSLR as well.
I predict this won't vote very well, folks here don't appreciate astrophotos unless there is some element of the ground/Earth in the shot... except maybe an exceptional wide angle shot of Orion or something.
If I had a choice for this contest, I would have done a 50mm shot of Orion with Barnard's loop in it.
Outstanding clarity of this Nebula. I wish I had the ability to shoot such great images. Congrats on a great image.
By the way, i went looking around the thumbs to find an image worthy of my 8000th commment. Congrats and you win the prize (and a new favorite for me!)
Rosette Nebula, a giant stellar nursery
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