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Cheers Mark. I don't have any other stacked images at the moment, but I am off to Cyprus again for Easter, so hopefully I'll get clear skies to try few more targets.

I am quite new with deep space objects and stacking as well to be honest. I have been doing wide-angle asto/landscapes up to now. Photoraphy-on-the-net have a dedicated astro photography forum if you want to check out, and they seem to be quite helpful there as well.

Thanks Mark. Total exposure was 75x30s and 5x120s (all at ISO 6400) and lots of trial and error on DSS.

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Here is an image of orion nebula I took while I was in Cyprus couple weeks ago. I used a tamron 200-500mm lens on a tracking mount. This was a first for me. If the workshop participants are up to it, we can to try stuff like this during the workshop.

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Usually, I'd say planning your trip with few others is the best value for money. Obviously I am not sure if this possible for a place like galapagos islands, but for patagonia, I am sure you can come up with an itinerary after some research. I have been to Iceland and Scandinavia few times on...

Hey all, I am running an astrophotography workshop in Cyprus this summer. Cyprus has clear skies most of the year and if you know where to go, very little light pollution as well providing great opportunities for night time photography. We will have the opportunity to photograph the Milky Way...

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Purely based on specs if I were starting from zero, as a landscape shooter, I'd go with d800e. There is nothing wrong with 5dIII specs, but the resolution of d800e looks very attractive (again based on specs only). as a general use camera though, 5dIII is much more balanced. It has everything...