pmesquita

My 1st astroimaging anniversary and so I'm sending some of the more decent work I did throughout these 12 months. This is my tribute to all those who went out of their way to help me. I hope it's of acceptable quality for your standards.

Here is the Flickr link to my 1st year gallery with about 30 of the 60 imaging sessions I did this year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27349440@N02/

The numbers on the photos refer to their sequence: 7 means it's the 7th photo, etc.

To simplify the setup description, the below one is basically the general one I used in all sessions.

GEAR:
- C11 EDGE HD + HYPERSTAR @ F2
- CANON 600D MODIFIED + IDAS LPS P2
- SW EQ6 PRO
- ORION SS AG

CAPTURE AND GUIDING SOFTWARE
- BACKYARD EOS
- PHD

SESSIONS (ALL OF 45" LIGHTS AT ISO1600 EXCEPT THE STAR CLUSTERS THAT WERE 25" AT ISO1600):
- LIGHTS - VARYING BETWEEN 20 AND 80, ACCORDING TO EACH TARGET
- FLATS -20
- DARKS - 10
- BIAS - 50

PROCESSING:
- PIXINSIGHT - MAJOR WORK
- PHOTOSHOP - RETOUCHING

I hope youenjoy my humble contribution with my 1st years' work. I tried my best :-)

cheers,
Paulo Mesquita
Portugal

I'm starting now to publish my 1st photos of my 2nd imaging year, with a new setup and techique.
This setup is totally different from my 1st year. On my 1st year I had fun - and fell in love
with Deep space imaging - with a very fast system: C11 Edge HD + Hyperstar @F2.
Out of about 70 photos on my 1st year - and for a rookie - I got half a dozen good ones,
a few more so-so decent..and the rest quite weak.

NOW IT'S YEAR TWO...AND I HOPE IT RUNS EVEN BETTER