astrovirus Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 After struggling with my guiding for 2 frustrating nights, it turned out that the issue was too much power consumption at the campsite, so I decided to only use the TEC for shooting darks the next day. With the TEC out of the equation, guiding was as smooth as at home. Precautiously I had already left out the TEC the first night when shooting the Iris and back then everything was also OK.OK back to this session;Details:NGC 5146, 2 hrs 55 min (35x5 min), ISO 1600, 24 darks (shot the next with TEC running at 20.0°C), 20 bias, 40 flats.Captured with Nebulosity 2.4.4Pre-processing/Stacking: DSS 3.3.0 (Kappa-Sigma)Post-processing: Nebulosity (Color balance) and CS3 (Levels/Curves/Saturation/HLVG/Carboni actions)Date: August 4 & 5 2011 (23:30 - 3:10)Temperature: 22-18°CM52/Bubble, 1 hr 30 min (18x5 min), ISO 1600, 24 darks (shot the next with TEC running at 20.0°C), 20 bias, 40 flats.Captured with Nebulosity 2.4.4Pre-processing/Stacking: DSS 3.3.0 (Kappa-Sigma)Post-processing: Nebulosity (Color balance) and CS3 (Levels/Curves/Saturation/HLVG/Carboni actions)Date: August 5 2011 (3:30 - 5:00)Temperature: 22-18°CThanks for watching,Regards Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyond_Vision Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 A very nice set of images Tim with great star colour. The cocoon looks great with the small blue reflection nebula nearby showing up well.RegardsKevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrovirus Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 Thanks Kevin,I have made a big leap starting this spring in which my imaging has improved greatly. It seems my current workflow in both acquiring the data and the processing of it is on the right path. I'm quite surprised on how well the starcolors come out, even though I'm shooting most of my shots at ISO1600. Must be doing it the right way.Regards Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 The Cocoon is particularly nice, nice to see it with the dusty tail too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoLo Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Beautiful work Tim, I agree, the Cocoon is a stunner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD333 Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Awesome shots, I find ISO 1600 the sweet spot for me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollypenrice Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Very polished, attractive images, with everything under control. Well done on the star colour, too. Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Nice set of images - very rich star fields and fantastic detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrovirus Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 Thanks guys. I'm however still working on a reprocess of the M52 data to remove some gradient present, but it's hard as it's only 90 min of data to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrovirus Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 Well, here's my reprocess attempt to remove the gradient. With the lack off GXT (need to buy that plug-in as does magic) I did by hand in CS3, hope you like it.Regards Tim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Very nice Tim, good to see the cocoon dark lane.gradient removal in the repost workedDarren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennbech Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I like the way you have brought forward the blue in this image! Great shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoot100 Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Great Image ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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