North America Nebula

[Chris-A]

Hi all, this is the first image I have posted online, so any constructive criticism would be much appreciated !

I'm fairly happy with it, but it seems to be missing that nice clean look that I see with many pics on here. Maybe I am asking a bit much with the moon having been fairly high whilst I was shooting, but I still have plenty to learn about the dark arts of post-processing

Scope - Opticstar ED80S

Camera - Modded 1000D - 45 x 4 mins @ ISO800

Mount - HEQ5

Guiding - ST80 / QHY5 via PHD & EQMOD

Higher res version here:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/19394/B/

[Gina]

Lovely - I can't think of anything to improve it and the high res version is fantastic

[kruska]

excellent image.

Photoshop offers to make images on your own, not just a one type of north america

if you want to see other proccesing put your aligned image on net

[kirkster501]

Thats fabulous ! Well done. I am a beginner too and thats my next target.

Steve

[Chris-A]

Lovely - I can't think of anything to improve it and the high res version is fantastic

Thanks. It is certainly the best pic I've managed so far but there is a bit too much noise in the red bits. I could prob reduce this by cooling my DSLR (EXIF temp was 14C here) but my focusser wouldn't take the extra weight of a peltier, heatsink, etc, there is already some sag as you can see from the dodgy stars in the top left corner.