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From the album: Messier Objects
First Attempt -
What Can I Expect to See....?
Stub Mandrel replied to Qualia's topic in Getting Started With Observing
I think both Skywatcher and Bresser give fair impressions of what you might see in their manuals. -
From the album: Messier Objects
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Just remember good is good enough - don't chase minute errors that won't affect your viewing!
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What Can I Expect to See....?
Stub Mandrel replied to Qualia's topic in Getting Started With Observing
True confession, I had a 2" reflector. Managed to find the moon and either Jupiter or Mars and got very frustrated at how fast they disappeared. Saw PM on telly saying don't bother with anything less than 3", so I didn't, I just used to see if I could make out cars across the Bristol channel on Weston seafront and even use it as a 'bazooka' from time to time. Will have to see if it is still in my dad's loft... -
From the album: Messier Objects
Cassiopeia and M31 cropped from a wide field shot -
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From the album: Constellations
Bootes with Corona Borealis and the square of Hercules -
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From the album: Meteors
I had to wait for the previous exposure to finish and then swing the camera around to get this, so you can see how long it lasted! -
From the album: Meteors
Perseid early on 13 August -
From the album: Meteors
Perseid early on 13 August -
From the album: Lunar
from Wilkin's 300-inch map -
This was my first one, M42 - surprise surprise! Just done with a bridge camera: And my first DSO with a scope - M57:
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From the album: Messier Objects
First DSO -
From the album: Space Oddities
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What's the importance of a Luminance layer?
Stub Mandrel replied to pipnina's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
OK this is probably done in far too much of a hurry but here's my previous best M27: And here's a quick try at LRGB (combining 20 30s pictures from three nights worth, having deleted more than that number of ones with star trailing). The L layer is just a monochrome conversion of the stacked but unprocessed 48-bit RGB, the RGB is processed by splitting into the three layers and adjusting for best contrast on each one. Recombined there was a strong magenta cast, corrected by shifting colour balance towards green. Still not sure what I'm doing or how to highlight the red outer 'shell' without giving a red cast to the background. Somewhat hampered by lack of flats. Might have done better by upping yellow instead of shifting towards green, so I didn't kill the red? -
From the album: Messier Objects
First attempt at LRGB processing, also using photos from three imaging sessions -
What's the importance of a Luminance layer?
Stub Mandrel replied to pipnina's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
I'm going to go back to some of my RAWs and give this a try. -
What's the importance of a Luminance layer?
Stub Mandrel replied to pipnina's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
When I split an RGB of the dumbell nebula, the G & B layers showed much better detail than the red layer, but boosting them just turned the red bits grey :-( It's hard stuff this image processing! -
What's the importance of a Luminance layer?
Stub Mandrel replied to pipnina's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Here are a couple of charts that may help. Try opening them and splitting them into LAB RGB or CMYK and see how different the splits are! Desaturating them before you do the split may also help understand the role of the different channels. RGB: CMYK It's also interesting how (on my monitor at least) the CMYK (not the RGB) version seems to have the colours more as I would expect to see them.There's also a LAB - where L is lightness, A is green (-) to red (+) and B is yellow to blue, but tyeh system won't let me upload a TIFF version (you can't save a LAB jpg)(I'm only pretending to understand this, you know...) -