alan potts

Lovely shot, not over saturated, well done Sir.

Alan

Considering the way you say you took it, absolutely superb shot, difficult to believe it could be better with darks etc.

Alan

Stunning, as good as any I have ever seen of this target.

Alan

11 hours ago, Laurin Dave said:

Thanks Alan..    it's either not been dark or cloudy here for ages    

I have to say it has not been so good here this year, many many clear days that spoilt themselves at sunset.

Alan

16 minutes ago, Adreneline said:

Thank you Alan - I am pleased you like it. There is a lot going on in Cassiopeia and Cepheus and a lot of stuff my image solver doesn't identify. Maybe someone knows how to get PI to include all the Sh2 nebula and will enlighten me.

Thanks again.

Adrian

C-du-C seems to include all the Sharpless regions at different depths in the program, it doesn't show all the faint ones until you zoom in to 50, 20 and 10 degrees FOV. For ages I was calling this list Shapeless, which of course most are.

Alan

A lovely shot there Goran, I thought you didn't have much dark at this time of year, you must be up all night.

Alan

A lovely wide field shot, so much to see there and so nicely done.

Alan

Absolutely superb, though I had not seen much of you, too busy with this I see. A really great image and very nicely processed in my humble opinion.

Alan

Lovely shot Steve, can't recall seeing that one done before.

Alan

Beautifully done but a tad to saturated for my taste.

Alan

That's come out very nice, it is a target I want try with 330mm Borg.

Alan

That's as good as any I have seen, love the colour balance.

Alan

Absolutely stunning image.

Alan

That extra focal length make all the difference, great shot. I have a 12 inch LX 200 but not the skill or mount to pull off something like this.

Alan.

Always a pleasure to look at your fine work!!

Alan

Beautiful work, seems you are liking the new camera, your sure using it well Goran.

Alan

Without question I would send it back, my scope is over 10 years old and has much less dust than this, infact it is very difficult to see any.

Alan

On 28/08/2020 at 20:12, johninderby said:

Alan

Any updates on the StellaMira 85? Just wondering if you’d had the chance to use it.

Sadly I did use it but there was a sagging problem with the focuser, at least working for 3 weeks or so with Ian King on the problem, that was his findings. On the whole I liked the scope and it was sharp in the centre of field. There was a star elongation issue in one diagonal axis, lead Ian to conclude this. There was a possibility it was the Hutech flatener but I don't buy that that one myself and was only tabled as a suggestion. Unfortunately I had to return it, then there appeared to be no more at FLO and they were not sure when they were getting more. As I am at the moment tied to dealing with the UK only up until 31st Dec I have shelved the idea for the time being.

Alan.

As good as any image I have seen on this site, stunning result.

Alan

A wonderful image, I was sat for a few minutes, atlas open, photo open, trying to work out how the heck you got that with an 8 inch, then FLO site open and see it's 400mm. Great shot.

Alan

Very nice shots you have taken.

Alan

Simply superb!!.

Alan

2 minutes ago, Kinch said:

Thanks Alan......yes, a lot of data and perhaps more needed. (I am not commiting to that until I see how things go this weekend. From Monday next I think I will have to look for my next target.....too much time on one image is bad for the 'soul')

I know you want to enhance the blue having read what you said about, can you not cheat and do this in PS by choosing Select, using Colour Range and then laying what ever you want into only that colour, I use it a lot and it will not touch the reds.

Alan

Stunning image there, 26 hours, may not be a record but that is one heck of a lot of data.

Alan

8 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

Nice one Alan. Hopefully the filter is ok.

On my ZWO ASI183MC I use the IDAS D2 as we have light pollution from LED street lights here. I've just ordered the ZWO ASI183MM as I like the images the MC does but want to do some narrowband with the mono camera. Maybe even use the colour images from the MC and add HA from the MM as Lum channel.

I did consider this filter as I do have a bit of a glow to the south east from the town which is 5 miles away. I also just have a issue with a lamp about 100m away to the south which was well covered by a walnut tree, this has now been removed by the owners. It is causing me a few problems in the shape of lens flare when pointing to the south, the south of course being an interesting area. Over all though I am in a much better situation than many of our members but in the last 12 years my sky has without doubt become brighter.

Alan