Not, not *that* Orion, *this* Orion:
Taken with my usual cheapo point-and-click camera. 20 separate photos on “manual” mode, maximum optical zoom (no digital zoom) with an ISO of 1600 and the longest exposure it’ll do (which ain’t long for these cameras, still a fraction of a second… how I wish I had something like a Nikon D80! Anybody wanna donate about $1200 so’s I can buy one?) , then the photos were stacked using “DeepSkyStacker” software. Won’t win any awards, but still kinda nice. At full rez you can just make out that there’s something fuzzy about the Orion Nebula:
Weird thing is if I jack up the hue saturation as high as it’ll go in Paint Shop Pro, must of the stars are happily blue-ish, but red supergiant Betelgeuse turns bright green.
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Get a canon PnC and load CHDK (chdk.wikia.com) on it. You’ll be able to upto 64s exposures. Plus you can shoot in RAW and use scripting for things like motion sensing and timelapse. Turns a $150 camera into a $500+ camera in just a few minutes.
What the hell’s a “canon PnC?” A camera of some sort, I imagine, but info online seems pretty lean.
canon PnC:- a Canon Point ‘n’ Click camera.
looks interesting, may try it out on one of mine.
Ah. PnC now understood. And I happen to have a Canon PnC, as it turns out. May have to give this a try, though long duration shots of the night sky really need to be done on a clock mount.