Sun and night sky...

[Edsport]

These shots were taken using my canon 350D and 75-300mm lens. The sun was taken with a solar filter on the lens and it was cropped big time. No cropping on the other pics.

Sun


Moon and Mars


Andromeda galaxy


Orion nebula

[SoxAddict]

Love the starry skies! Nice bright sun too - close enough to reach out.

[2stroke]

Andromeda and Orion are 300mm uncropped? amazing, I need details.

[macrobaby]

Totally beautiful shots. Amazing is probably a better word. Nice work.

[leonaashlee]

Wow! Nothing else would quite cover it.

[AndCity]

Absolutely awesome!

[PhotogChic]

Originally Posted by 2stroke

Andromeda and Orion are 300mm uncropped? amazing, I need details.

I would love to know the details also! I struggle so much with moon and night sky shots! Please share your secrets!

Your photos are stunning!

[Edsport]

Thanks guys for the comments.

2Stroke, here are the details. The first 2 was taken without a telescope. The sun i explained. The moon and mars was 2 seperate exposures, one for the moon and one for mars and stars then combined using photoshop. Can't remember the exact exposure time so you'll have to experiment. The moon and mars isn't close now though. All of these pics was taken about a year ago. For the moon and mars i guess 30 secs would do it, depending on the iso. The last 2 i used a telescope but the pics were taken through my camera lens and not the scope. The scope was just used to counteract earths rotation allowing me to do long exposures without getting star trails. I taped my camera to the scope. You can buy motors for your camera without having to buy a telescope if u desire to have one. The galaxy is like 5 min exposures and i had 18 of them then stacked them using free software like Deepskystacker. For orion nebula it don't take so long. I think it was about 3mins using iso 800 (i think iso 800) and i only took 1 photo of it as an experiment. I plan to take a bunch and stack them to get some nice detail. If you don't have a scope or motor to attach your camera to you may be out of luck. Orion you may have a chance using the highest iso and hope you can get a decent image in about 30 secs or so before it starts to show star trails. Use a big aperture (low number) which will speed up things also. Take a bunch of them then using the stacking software, stack all the photos together which will show more detail and less noise than just one photo. Then using Photoshop's curves and levels will help bring out more detail. It won't look like you captured anything till you use curves or levels, then the image really pops. Without a motor you'll have to move the camera after every shot or so. Make sure you don't set this up on a wodden patio or something that isn't solid. Just walking by it will make the cam shake enough to show in the photo...

One more thing, My cam don't have live view so what i do is take a pic of about 30 secs to see if i have good focus, if not i try to get better focus then take another 30 sec pic. Once i get my focus good then i start taking the long exposure.

Any more questions just ask...