North America - finally sorted

[Guest]

I posted an image earlier of this that I had processed on my laptop - unfortunately the graphics setting on it meant it looked great - as long as you were looking at it on that laptop :-)

I've been trying to get some clear sky time on this object since I bought my QHY8 last year and got my Teleskop Service 65mm astrograph earlier this year.

Earlier in the month I grabbed some captures under hazy skies and was disappointed.

This time I got 100 minutes (5x20min) and plenty of data to reveal the nebulosity around the southern reaches. Great fun to see what the camera could do under good conditions on this one.

Tonight I'm Pelican hunting har har!

David

[Gina]

That's better Very nice

[Guest]

With some help from the people on the PAIG forum I've managed to get the red even more under control than it was - finally :-)

I had the same problem with the Rosette Nebula last year but had forgotten how I'd overcome it - DOH!

David

[Guest]

....and a slightly more toned down version :-)

[Ganymede12]

Those are amazing!

[Gina]

That last one is superb

[Guest]

Thanks guys :-) I think that last one's a "keeper"

[farunj]

Wow!! The last ones awesome!!!

[Guest]

....and here is my final, final, final take on this after more help from Dennis over on PAIG

Just taking it easy on the upper end of the curve helps a huge amount

[Gina]

Very nice

[Darth Takahashi]

Nice capture...