Dark Horizon

Now that's something to be proud of.  Excellent

That's a great piece of work.. Welll done!

There's a few issues I need to resolve with my imaging system before I'm able to capture better subs, but i'm happy with this image.

11 hours of Ha (12nm) in 5 min subs. Stacked in DSS and tinkered with in Photoshop.

Equipment: Altair Starwave 102ED, 0.6x RF, 12nm Ha filter, Atik 428ex mono. 

Cheers..

Second process looks best. Much more natural.

At some point I will be redoing the whole project as I have recenly had it bought to my attention that my spacing between CCD and Flattner / Reducer is out by around 14mm. 

But yes, I'll be going for a colour image.

This was imaged over the last few clear nights. 

Equipment: 102ED APO, 0.6x FF/reducer, 12nm Astronomik Ha filter and the Atik 428ex.

Guiding with a 60mm Primaluce Lab guidscope and Altair GP130. 

Mount: SW AZ-EQ6.

Exposure: 3h30m in 15min subs.

24 x Darks

No flats or Bias calibration. 

Tweeked in photoshop.

Saying nothing as i'm still picking my jaw up of the floor......  That's utterly excellent IMO. 

Nice image. However i much prefer this with a lot more space around it, there's so much more to this target. Great pic all the same

That second image is much better. This target is a really nice in Bicolour as the Sii doesn't really come through in a Tricolour.

Well done, very nice!

Sounds like a good plan to me. I'll keep my eye on the thread. it's interesting to see how others solve problems along the way. Makes my life easier and my brain hurt less!

Good luck!

That's a hell of a big pier base.... looks like it's gonna be nice. Bit envious of you're aspect; pretty good that.