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Thanks. Interesting. This is one minute frames so I'm almost certain there'd be more stars going to two, three... TBH, I ran this through the bd and it turned out almost monochrome. So I went for an "artist's impression"; colour all the way up to eleven.

Phew, 6 minutes. Well done. Tremendous! I think we agree on colour. More or less. Thanks for posting. Most useful.

Hi. No. No filters.

Hi everyone Google tells us that this is an old cluster with orange stars. So when I want orange, I get blue. Can't win. Strange sort of all-over-the-place cluster in the middle of nowhere. kstars also gives another cluster in the same fov but I can't see it unless you count the bright-ish stars lower left. Thanks for looking and do post if you've had a go at the same. 700d on 208 f3.9 45min @ ISO 800 ** quite a sight watching scorpio et al rise early hours, carrying the planets with them:)

Hi Great shot. Thinking about having a go with our 10" reflector. Did you have any problems finding an oag guide star? It looks pretty sparse in stars over there. Cheers and clear skies.

Thanks for posting your version. I don't think it's lacking detail. We can see colour in yours where ours is lacking. Examples using similar resources help us enormously, hence our request when beginning the thread. But yeah, I know. I'm lucky if my attention span extends much past 1/2 an hour. I prefer to give the processing to a mate or two and let them argue over it! But there is hope. New ways to process are evolving and will hopefully cut the screen staring to a minimum. Cheers

@vlaiv: Of course, we'll make an exception for you!

Hi and thanks for taking a look. I made sure they were the same size. Are you seeing something different? No need to resize or manipulate them. Just a gut reaction side by side is fine. Cheers

Hi everyone This is 1 hour and 4 hours. Was it worth the extra three I wonder or is my it'll do type justification misleading me?! Thanks for looking. 700d @ ISO800

Thanks. Excellent shot. The 200 f5 helps bring it closer (we had only 200 f4). Nice idea with the lots of short frames rather then our (far fewer) but longer. You noise is also much better controlled than ours. Maybe the shorter exposures?

Hi. You can never have enough mount. Get the eq6 and keep both telescopes. As galaxy season approaches, you'll be glad you kept the 200;) Just our €0.02 HTH

@vlaiv OK. If I go darker than this, I find I begin to lose the arms of the spiral. I also did a bit of denoise. Cheers and thanks for your patience.

Hi Here you get feedback.

'Linux makes better louder bells'. I'm sure @vlaiv would approve:)

Done. Cheers

Hi everyone New moon so of course the conditions were rubbish with easterlies creating the usual haze as the night air cooled. Anyway, no excuses. Three telescopes, 4 guys with an assortment of miners' lamps, torches, laptop screens, cheap supermarket beers and cables. Everywhere. I was in charge of the f4 and actually got to take some frames. As always, colour remains elusive; there seems no right or wrong way of doing it. So, and against all the odds, here is a photograph of a galaxy. Do say what you think and post your dslr version. You can learn so much by comparison:) 700d @ ISO800

Thanks. Could it be that astrometry.net doesn't do sh objects?

Hi everyone Here's a nebula which it seems doesn't have a catalogue number. Quite nice though. If I'd known, I'd have thrown more time at it rather than rushing over to the galaxies to the NE. Thanks for looking. We think it's Ha emission... Any ideas?

And Siril... Yeah, I think I get it. It's just that I can have as much colour as I like -artistic- but that doesn't agree with what the database colour says it should be. Dilemma!

Hi everyone Waiting for Leo to get it's act together last night, we thought we'd fill in with what looked in Kstars to be an attractive cluster pairing. I think underwhelmed is an overstatement. Where the second cluster is located, I've no idea. Anyway, we used the time wisely to check collimation on the reflector which had survived a journey in a sling-over-the-shoulder style guitar case affair. So here we have it. Hold your breath... 700d @ ISO800

Hi everyone We've a fast reflector for the weekend which despite having been bounced around on the train from Madrid yesterday, needed only a quick tweak to satisfy our Cheshire. Last week, we posted in the beginners' section about galaxy colour, but drew a blank. I wonder if there are any guidelines as to their colour? In this example we let Siril's star database -it makes all stars almost colourless- do the colour and let the galaxies look after themselves. It's quite confusing looking at the colour variations during a google image search so for now, we're giving up! All comments, colour or otherwise most gratefully received. Cheers and thanks for looking. eos700d

Hi If you've built on soil and have had a lot of rain or it's been especially dry for long periods, ground movement? Especially noticeable here in summer when the ground dries to quite a depth.

Hi and thanks for the comment. In fact we used an 8" f4. I think the cluster is too small to be captured at this scale even with our 300mm Tair. Here's the fov:

Hi everyone The subtitle (?) for this cluster is salt and pepper. I suppose it's a bit salty, although my original theory of reference to the sense taste was soon corrected by those who by now I should know know better. Longest ever for a cluster; 2 hours before the haze attacked. Ran it through Siril's NOMAD colour database thingy which made what was a pretty orange and blue cluster, almost colourless. Wonderful! All comments most gratefully received. Please do post your images too. eos700d @ ISO800

This is why your stars are poor; you do not have the magic 75mm backfocus. You need a 15mm t2 extension. Get a set maybe? You need this t-ring. So you should now have: Camera - t ring - 15mm extension tube - m48 to t2 adaptor - cc - telescope focuser. Note, you must unscrew the eyepiece holder form the cc. You do not need the 1.25 adaptor. Here it is setup ready to mount on our 700d. Otherwise please post a photo of your setup.