Tried stacking 50 shots of the Orion Nebula with my old DSLR

I've had this Canon T3i for years and never pushed it past basic star shots. Last night I pointed it at M42 with a cheap tracker and took fifty 30-second exposures. When I stacked them in DeepSkyStacker, the result actually showed some of the nebula's structure, which I didn't think was possible from my light-polluted backyard. The reds and blues were faint but definitely there. It's not Hubble, but for gear I've owned since 2012, I'm pretty stoked. Has anyone else pulled off a decent DSO image with a really old camera body?

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nancy8249d ago

My old Nikon D90 from 2009 still surprises me. I got the Horsehead Nebula to show up by stacking like eighty two-minute subs with a decent light pollution filter. Those old sensors have some fight left in them.

averywright9d ago

Wait, Nancy824, that's actually pretty wild for a camera that old.