My First M13

[David JM]

One of a series of images for later processing.

[Gina]

That looks promising - a number of those stacked should give a good result

[ollypenrice]

As Gina says. Is this a single sub? Although bright, M13 will benefit from several hours of data.

Olly

[Quatermass]

Way to go lots more subs and balance with darks flats and bias shot should really boost it for you.

[David JM]

I'm struggling to process them with Deep Sky Stacker at the moment, various ISOs and exposures.

To be honest I'm just glad to have it in focus.

[David JM]

RegiStax to the rescue.

Still not very good though.

[Viv]

Looking at it with my completely untrained eye i'd say you need more time.

If you can only get 30 second subs - you're going to need allot ! But then you'll have allot of noise to deal with.

This is a single (terrible) sub from my garden, but it's 3 minutes - no editing (except a crop). It's come out very noisy (don't know why) & my focus is slighly out.

[Ags]

This is a great result from a 4SE - lots of focal length on a middling mount. I am going to try M13 tomorrow night - now Iḿ not sure whether to try my Mak or my ST80....

[David JM]

I've processed the stills for each exposure setting in RegiStax.

[Gina]

Good start Didn't know Registax was suitable for DSOs.

[David JM]

Good start Didn't know Registax was suitable for DSOs.

I don't think it's supposed to be used that way but I can't get DSS to work, even after reading the manual.

[Ags]

Where does DSS go wrong?

[David JM]

DSS is probably fine, I think I'm doing something wrong. I need to consult the two top imagers at R&DAS, but I got this from the same M13 I put into Registax.

Like I say, it's going to be user error.

[Ags]

DSS is funny about some CR2 formats. In my experience it renders a section of the image if it has to deal with recent CR2 files (such as those produced by the 1100D). Converting the files to TIFF in DPP resolves the issue.

[Gina]

You need the latest Beta (forget the number ATM) - the standard version won't work properly with CR2 files from the 1100D. I expect the same applies to all the Digic 4 models.