Short Trips within our Island Universe

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First light session for the e-130D, which covers several targets spanning from Summer to Winter.

The unmistakable Great Orion Nebula. I composed slightly off center to capture the nebulosity to the east of the subject.

Takahashi Epsilon-130D on Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Canon 450D Mod
Guided by DSI Pro II via GPUSB on Meade 8x50 Finder
8x5min @ ISO800, Darks
Taken on 30 November 2013
DSS, PSCS2. Image resized and uncropped

[wtyu21]

Wow～what a great job～

[Eddy So]

好圖！

[鄧登凳]

Great

[littleming]

[LT]

Gorgeous. Shoud be the best one taken in HK with DSLR.

LT

[bbyaya]

精彩, 很美

[anyone]

[benben88]

[Subaru]

Wow, first light is already the ultimate.

It makes no major difference than those taken overseas with APOs, with the extended nebulosity captured just in HK.

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Another object in the same session was the Veil Nebula Complex in Cygnus (NGC6960 & NGC6974) which was almost half a sky away, started earlier just after sunset as a warm up piece.

Takahashi Epsilon-130D on Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Canon 450D Mod
Guided by DSI Pro II via GPUSB on Meade 8x50 Finder
17x5min @ ISO800, Darks
Taken on 30 November 2013
DSS, PSCS2; Image resized and cropped

[littleming]

[ouman]

Wow

[anyone]

wonderful !

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IC2177 Seagull Nebula in Monoceros not far Northeast from Sirius.

Takahashi Epsilon-130D on EM-10 Temma 2 Jr.
Canon 450D Mod
Guided by DSI Pro II via GPUSB on Meade 8x50 Finder
11x5min @ ISO800, Darks
Taken on 2 December 2013 at PTC
DSS, PSCS2; Image resized and uncropped