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Tried stacking 50 shots of the Orion Nebula with my old DSLR
I've had this Canon T3i for years and never pushed it past basic star shots. Last night I pointed it at M42 with a cheap tracker and took fifty 30-second exposures. When I stacked them in DeepSkyStacker, the result actually showed some of the nebula's structure, which I didn't think was possible from my light-polluted backyard. The reds and blues were faint but definitely there. It's not Hubble, but for gear I've owned since 2012, I'm pretty stoked. Has anyone else pulled off a decent DSO image with a really old camera body?
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patking10d ago
That thing about "old sensors having some fight left in them" is SO true. I pulled out my decade-old Sony NEX-5 last year and got a picture of Andromeda's core that I just stared at for an hour. It really makes you wonder what else that old gear can do if you just push it a little harder.
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nancy8242mo ago
My old Nikon D90 from 2009 still surprises me. I got the Horsehead Nebula to show up by stacking like eighty two-minute subs with a decent light pollution filter. Those old sensors have some fight left in them.
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