Christmas Tree Cluster or NGC 2264
  • Details
    Date Taken: 02/08/2013
    Location: Chiefland Astronomy Village
    Other Telescope: Orion Premium Orion 190mm f/5.3 Mak-Newt Astrograph Telescope
    Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
    Other Camera: Modified Canon 5D MK 2
    Processing: Photoshop, Pixinsight v1.7
    Exposure: 25x10 min Lights 10x10min Darks and 10x1 sec Flats
    Other Equipment Used: KWT 50mm Guide Scope with Orion Starshoot Autoguiding Camera
    Notes: My name is Derek Demeter and I am a planetarium director at a college in Central Florida. I got into imaging a few years back when I visited a star party in North Carolina and took my first picture of the Orion Nebula. I was hooked ever since. Since then I purchased equipment from Orion and have been very impressed. I throughly enjoy my 190mm f/5.3 Mak-Newt Astrograph which I find to be just as good optically as any of my friends more expensive telescopes. I quite enjoy capturing nebulas that are rich with star forming hydrogen alpha. To capture the night sky I usually go to two places in Florida. One is to the north at the Chiefland Astronomy Village and the other is to a state park which is one of the darkest spots in the Southeast.