Lagoon and Trifid - M8 & M20 - last night

[Gina]

Clear sky last night meant I could try out several bits of new kit. The focuser on my Evostar 80 ED DS Pro scope changed for a Baader SteelTrack - a far superior item which performed perfectly, with absolutely no slippage. Very pleased with that Camera TEC water cooling replaced with a large heat-pipe CPU air cooler and controlled with new Arduino set point cooling control which also performed perfectly

Lagoon and Trifid fit quite well on the 1100D image sensor with focal reducer. 23 lights of 180s at ISO 800 and 0C set point temperature. Stacked in DSS together with darks, flats and bias frames added and post processing with PS. I would have liked more data but the trees got in the way.

[farunj]

That's awesome!!

[Mark72]

Great image, Gina!

Lots of details with your camera and little noise for Canon.

Mark

[davew]

It's been a long road hardware wise but it looks worth it.

You're producing nice DSLR images that almost tempt me to try some myself

Very nicely done Gina,

Dave

[Gina]

Thank you for your comments everyone

[Quatermass]

Fantastic work Gina seeing your progress over the last year has been an inspiration to everyone I am sure. Great job, bet your pleased with that one why not have it made into a wall canvas like I did it would look great in your study.

[Andyfx]

Wow thats lovely Gina! Btw, am glad you're happy with the Steeltrack :-)

[squeaky]

All that hard work has really paid off

[Gina]

Fantastic work Gina seeing your progress over the last year has been an inspiration to everyone I am sure. Great job, bet your pleased with that one why not have it made into a wall canvas like I did it would look great in your study.

Thanks Mark Yes, I do feel my results have improved quite a bit in the last year, particularly in the processing But I've also improved the equipment and got guiding working in that time which makes a big difference. I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this business

As for this image, I'm quite pleased with it but feel there's some improvement still to be made. I guess my ambitions have increased too I still have several techniques to apply with PS, which I find to be a fantastic application. I have been thinking of printing out some of my better efforts

P>S> Vish I cud tipe!

[Gina]

Wow thats lovely Gina! Btw, am glad you're happy with the Steeltrack :-)

Thanks Andy Yes, very pleased with the SteelTrack.

[Gina]

All that hard work has really paid off

Thanks - yes, I'm pleased with the result

[Andyfx]

Did you manage to rig up a motor to your SteelTrack in the end?

[Jessun]

Great wide field! I agree with QM, a joy to watch :-)

[Gina]

Did you manage to rig up a motor to your SteelTrack in the end?

No, not yet. The timing belt I've got isn't quite the right pitch. It seems to fit over a few teeth but not all the way round - I need to measure the pitch of the Steeltrack. The belt I have is a T2.5 - 2.5mm pitch and 6mm wide. The width is right but the pitch slightly out.

[Andyfx]

Still, a nice easy mod compared to the dslr mod. Think i'll send mine off to be done lol.

[Quatermass]

I vish I cud tip as vell put min spulling is awvull