Deepsky anyone???

This is my first try on deepsky photography. I used a Konica Minolta Z2 digital camera. This camera was mounted "piggyback". I took 10 frames with an exposure of 30 seconds each. The film sensetivity was 400 ASA. I used AstroStack to stack the pictures into one frame. On the original picture (12 Mb TIFF) the blue reflection nebulae around de stars 0f M45 are a littlebit visable. This photo contains star up to Mvis 11!

First color image

This week I experimented with my Konica Minolta Z2 digital camera. With PVC pipe I constructed an adaptor that i can use with my telescope. This way I can make color pictures of the moon with a high resolution. This 4 Mb images can be enlarged and printed with high detail. If you want to know how the adaptor was constructed, just let me know.
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Saturn

Last month, early in the morning I managed to take a picture of saturn. Because I didn't use a Barlow lens the image is quite small. The photo was taken by using a Celestron Neximage. This device records a AVI movie file. With Registax these AVI picture frames are combined to one frame. Also, lots of unseen details are enhanced this way.