geoflewis

A mighty fine image Carole, well done. You've got to be loving that lens 👍

That's a cracking image Peter

You are very welcome, but thanks for the thanks 😎

Nice job Carole, I knew that you'd be able to help David with PS much better than me 😉

Very nice as it is Donal

Hi David, Me neither, I only use PS for final tweaks to my images, so you probably need someone like @ollypenrice @carastro or other expert PS users to advise you. I just wanted to let you know that you have good data in there, so should be able to get a decent final LRGB image I think. Good luck, Geof

ok, so probably my screen then 🥴

Hi David, I just had a quick look at the lum with my ImagesPlus processing software, just applied an ArcSinH stretch without calibrating it and you've definitely got the galaxy and a few others in there

Both look great, but maybe a bit too magenta, so I took them into PS and nudged the colour balance shadows and midtones sliders a tad towards green, which to me gave them a more natural look. YMMV of course.

That's quite a list, good session John...

Me too....

Hi Lee, thanks for the phone / adapter info as I've tried taking hand held images with virtually zero success. I think I'm going to get one of those adapters to try some some quick grabs with my iPhone. Thanks also for posting those additional phone images, they're better than some of my early images taken with a DSLR at prime focus of my former 10" Meade LX200...!!

Lee, those are all excellent images. What phone did you use for that pretty stunning Clavius pic and was that hand held or do you have a phone adapter?

Superb...!!

Yep, that's fixed it 👍

Great job Donal, You're definitely getting the process nailed down and the final result is excellent. Building the mosaic on the fly with quick screen captures is a great way to go. Interesting that you took Autostakkert out of the mix as in my experience that generally produces a better stack than Registax, so what was your thinking there? At full resolution I can see one fairly long horizontal seam to the north of Mare Serenitatis heading towards Plato, i.e. towards the bottom of your image as you've presented it, so don't know if you had a small capture miss there, or whether it's a blending issue that you can fix. Other than that very minor blemish this is a superb image, very well done

Hi Rodd, both versions are excellent, but I agree with you that the less saturated new version is an improvement.

That's a good 1st effort, well done. Tracking will certainly help, especially if you want to experiment with settings or produce a large mosaic, but as you've demonstrated the required exposures are so fast that excellent results can be achieved without tracking. Good luck

Good luck 🤞👍

Sounds like a great plan - necessity being the mother of invention, et al..... 👍

There's a few folks on here that have them, maybe someone can do it for you....? 🤞

@Ships and Stars I've just read this update and I'm really disappointed for you. Do you have any idea how old these bins are? I know that my friends old Apogee 20/32/40 x 88 bins have non standard eyepieces that also don't take filters, but they are from the early 2000's, so maybe no one was making them that way back then. As you have one eye cup and retaining ring, could that be used as a template for 3D printing perhaps? That's not going to solve the inability to use filters though.... Just a thought, but could an adapter be made that uses the thread for the eye cup holder to take the filters in front of the eyepieces, between the eyepiece and the eye cup holder? I hope that you can find a solution.

Great job Mick. As Rodd says, it really sparkles. I think I need to experiment blending Ha with red using lighten mode.

Thanks John and please do have a go. I’d love to see your version.

Excellent Bob and very interesting to note the use of the skyglow filter; I don't think I've heard of that being used for imaging the Moon previously.