Here are some images taken with my Celestron Origin. This 6-inch smart telescope has some amazing capabilities that are built into the package. The images below taken with the telescope "out of the box." I've applied some minimal post-processing to some of the images. These pictures were all taken from a suburban Florida site that has a lot of light pollution. So far all of the pictures were taken using the clear filter.
A few early "lessons learned"...
- Longer is better...For most deep-sky objects, I am using a 60 minute integration time (600 10-second exposures). I plan to go back and re-do some of the early pictures with longer exposures.
- Currently, I am not saving the individual images and doing my own post-processing. All of these pictures are directly from the telescope's and app's own processing. In a few cases, I'm working a bit with the brightness and saturation to further enhance the pictures.
- The telescope does a great job with cutting through light pollution and even moonlight. I'm not afraid to go out with the moon in the sky at first quarter or even more.
I certainly have to learn about taking and post-processing better pictures, but I continue to be amazed at the images that come out of the Origin. Some current goals...
- Get the telescope to a darker sky site. I hope to test it at a cabin in Western North Carolina soon.
- Experiment with the nebula filter. It's in the box...I need to get it in the telescope.
- Begin to learn the tools so that I can do some post-processing with the final image as well as doing my own image stacking.
Questions/comments? Contact Steve with comments and suggestions. Check out my weather modeling pages. To help my observation planning, I'm upgrading some of my forecast pages to add cloud cover estimates.
