Roy Foreman

Definately an improvement. I struggle with layer masks too. Maybe I should persevere with it more.

I like it !

Nice image. Wonderfully sharp and great colours

I've had several attempts at trying to record the outer shells of M27 this year, and posted a couple of them here, but never really been completely happy with the results. This is my best effort to date. I'm sure there is still room for further improvement, but I'm reasonably happy with it for now. As always the lack of decent clear skies means I have to gather as much data as I can in the shortest possible time, so image quality suffers. Not much we can do about the weather. Vital stats as follows :- Celestron 8" F/10 Edge HD ZWO ASI 6200 MC Pro SW CQ350 mount IDAS NB! Tri Band Filter 34 x 120s at gain 400 Stacked in Affinity Photo and processed in Photoshop. SQM 20.49 Thanks for looking.

I know that feeling well ! Astro imaging has a very steep learning curve, but you don't have to have exotic equipment or hours and hours of exposure time to get results, as I hope my image shows. But it has taken many frustrating years of failure to get to the point where I can say 'I think I'm getting the hang of this'. So stick with it and you will get there. There are lots of knowledgeable people on this forum who will be only too glad to offer assistance if you need it. Roy

Typical - part way into an imaging run and the clouds roll in. However, I was amazed at how much nebulosity was recorded in just 35 minutes exposure time at F/10, which is why I am posting this image. It won't win any prizes in the ultimate quality stakes ! Celestron C9.25 XLT with TS field flattener. ZWO ASI 6200 MC Pro Full Frame OSC IDAS NB1 Tri Band Nebula Filter. 35 x 60 sec at gain 400. Stacked in Affinity Photo. Lots of faffing about in Photoshop. Hope you find it interesting and thanks for looking.

Love it. Really like the delicate shades and colours. Well done

Thank you Peter. Oh for clearer skies and more integration time !

I would normally want better quality from an image before posting it here, but the weather has been so bad for so long that I have been forced work in hazy skies, gaps between cloud masses, and no true darkness. In short, I got desperate ! NGC 6791 is an open cluster in Lyra, its stars so densely packed it almost looks like a globular. Imaged with a Celestron C9.25 XLT and ASI 6200 MC full frame OSC, just 20 x 30 sec is all I could manage, hence the lack in fidelity. Hope it's worth looking at, and thanks to those that do look.

A new take on a familiar scene. Love all the dusty stuff. Usually its M42 and the Horsehead that steal the show, but in your image they take back seat to the dust clouds. Well done and welcome to the forum.

Gives me hope for some of my old DSLR images. My Nikon D810a is designed for astrophotography and it is amazing what can be extracted from it with modern image processing. Well done Gorann, a really nice image lurking undiscovered for years !

Looks very luminous and glowing on my screen. Nice image Peter.

Lovely detail. Oh for clear and transparent skies !

Had a temporary glitch with my cooled astro cam, so I fell back on my Nikon D810a for this image of M27 the Dumbell Nebula. This is just 12 x 60 sec at ISO 6400 and an IDAS NB1 Tri Band Filter. Scope was a Skywatcher 10" F/4 Quattro CF. Maybe not the most stunning image of M27 ever taken, but for a DSLR (albeit one designed for astro imaging) and only 12 minutes total integration time, I thought it might be worth sharing. Hope you agree and thanks for looking.

Very nice. Love the colour balance.

Thank you and yes, I was surprised how well it came out considering the limited capture time and slow focal ratio of F/12. Perhaps using no filters helped.

Great detail and colours, well done.

Same data set, just totally different processing. Glad you like the image. Thank you Roy

Thank you very much, wasn't expecting the halo to show, so that was a pleasant surprise.

Thanks Adrian - after posting the first image I realised that I could probably get more out of it, and a reprocess from scratch seems to have proved that ! Roy

Nice image, I particularly like the colour balance.

First time I've tried to image this globular in Lyra. Darker and clearer skies might help to improve definition. That's for next time. Stella Lyra 10" F/12 Classical Cassegrain SW CQ350 mount ZWO ASI 6200 MC Pro No filters 60 x 30 sec at gain 300

Reprocess using Affinity for stacking - it does a much better job than DSS and sharper too ! Outer halo just starting to show, but definition is not all that it could be as I've pushed it quite a lot. Definitely needs more integration time.

That little scope is doing really well Neil. Nice captures. Just shows that in the right hands even a small scope can perform well.