Last night was my second night with my new 12 inch Orion dobsonian. I've loving it. Now, I know dob's arn't for taking pics with, but I held my camera up to the eyepiece and took this picture of NGC 457. With the naked eye this cluster is beautiful. A little nest of stars.

2second exposure by holding my camera very very still against the eyepiece.

-doma

PS> It took about 10 tries to get one where I was able to hold the camera steady enough.

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Looks great Doma. I remember how exciting it was to take my first few pictures through a dob! Thanks for shaing this with us!

Kent

yes thank you for sharing this .

clear skies

chrissy

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Very nice and good stable hands. Welldone.

Great effort doma, keep up the great work.

Paul