Carina Nebula

[smenkhare]

The Carina Nebula is one of the brightest nebulas in the southern sky and is located between 6,500 and 10,000 light years from Earth.
Photo is a total of 2hours exposure. taken with a takahashi FSQ-106 and an SBIG STL-11000M

 

[D-B-J]

Beautiful! What gear was used to make this shot?


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[smenkhare]

Beautiful! What gear was used to make this shot?


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A takahashi FSQ-106 telescope and SBIG STL-11000M camera

 

[otherprof]

The Carina Nebula is one of the brightest nebulas in the southern sky and is located between 6,500 and 10,000 light years from Earth.
Photo is a total of 2hours exposure. taken with a takahashi FSQ-106 and an SBIG STL-11000M

Gorgeous! Well worth the 10,000 year wait for the light to get here!

 

[JustJazzie]

Phenomenal. I am speechless. What a grand universe we live in! Thank you for capturing its beauty to share with us. Wonderful work.

 

[epeddy1]

Always enjoy seeing Astrophotography on here, but I'm at work and it's giving me the red X. I'll have to check at home.

 

[KmH]

Lovely image.
AP at that level of quality doesn't happen by accident.
A lot of experience, and a fair amount of time that was used to make that image.

If the Takahashi telescope is the ED version it's a $5000 or so tool if bought new and with no mount.
The specialized astrophotography CCD camera is an additional $7200.
There is no way that I know of to do high quality AP on the cheap.
I would not be surprised if the OP uses $20,000 (or more) worth of gear to do AP.

 

[smenkhare]

If the Takahashi telescope is the ED version it's a $5000 or so tool if bought new and with no mount.
The specialized astrophotography CCD camera is an additional $7200.
There is no way that I know of to do high quality AP on the cheap.
I would not be surprised if the OP uses $20,000 (or more) worth of gear to do AP.

Keith, It is indeed expensive. Fortunately with the high end setups you can rent time on them rather than buy it.