M57 - 19-07-07

[Grant]

Had a fantastic night tonight! The clouds kept away and it was pretty dark! Managed to plow through quite alot of stuff, just 30 second exposures until I get my cable...

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10 x 30 secs ISO 800, ED80, 350d, closeup

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10 x 30 secs ISO 800, ED80, 350d, widefield

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M57, Widefield, 1 minute exposure...

The stack ones, I'm sure more could be done with, I tried stacking with the raws and using a dark frame in deep sky stacker but it didn't give me anything worth using? Please, feel free to have a play around, the raws and jpgs are available at: http://iseestars.net/m57.zip (104mb)

Thanks,

Grant

[steppenwolf]

Grant, you have been busy and successful! It was a great night while it lasted but clouds now so I'm off to bed, although its nearly time to get up again ....

[SteelRat]

Great 57 pics there Grant. #3's my fave but they're all good 8) Glad y'had a good night out there.

[Grant]

Thanks guys

I was tempted to stay out longer but knew I'd spend hours processing so if I didn't stop then I wouldn't get any sleep!! Fantastic night, had chance to do some visual stuff too and got to show my dad M57 and M27 which he's never seen before Trusty old goto! He was a bit cynical about the goto at first but I think how quickly it found M57, M27 and M31 he's changed his mind

[legion48]

Lovely stuff Grant.

Here my attempt at playing with M57:

[geppetto]

Number two does it for me 8)

Really shows M57 as it is

[CELESCOPE]

well on the way now Grant , made a nice job on those, well done

Rog

[MikeD]

A great nights work.

[Grant]

Thanks guys

Great edit Legion48! You've brought out a lot of extra colour there! I think I'm going to keep practicing at the processing side of things, its beginning to dawn on me that the processing is as hard as the capture!

Cheers,

Grant

[Akyra]

Even though I have no idea what I'm doing I played around with the first image too :

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I hope one day I can produce my own captures to mess around with

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Great ring Grant, nice colour and everything.

Kaptain Klevtsov