guiseppe

Guiseppe: nice! Out if interest as it's your first, which method did you use to take flats? I've only managed one stack of subs, darks and bias so far. I'm keen to know how you got on taking flats? I'm rarely able to take any in daylight. So I'm wondering what method works well for my 8" scope. I've heard a white t-shirt and a torch shined at it works well but to me it sounds like it might create unevenness. I'm considering holding my laptop screen up with a white background displayed although that dies not cover the end of the scope fully. So might try and see if it fills the scope with light. Cheers!

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First of all: Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Secondly, I made a mistake, I meant to write bias, not flats. I haven't yet figured out how to take them either.

As I just managed my first successful deep sky image a couple of days ago, I figured this thread would be good place to put it. 

M42, 41x15s, 50 darks, 50 flats.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/prr761kqepdrn1k/M42.jpg

Uranium235, how do you manage to get such spectacular results? What do you use? What's your setup and process of taking images and post-processing? This thread may not be the place for such discussions, but I'm sure I'm not the only one curious.

Last night I saw my first galaxy, M31! I was so giddy about actually finding and seeing it that I rushed things when it came to taing the picture. That, and I had to rush it because dawn was upon me. It's a wide shot, but it is the first time I've ever captured a DSO on camera, as far as I know at least.