Trials (and errors) of Alt-Az imaging

[Tadpole]

Well, after reading up on Nebulosity, Photoshop tweaking and the rest of it, I decided to try my hand at imaging last night.

Set up the CPC800 and star aligned, piggy-backed my Canon 60D with Sigma 100mm f2.8 and managed a dozen 20s images at f4 of Arcturus and then got fogged out! Everything dripping wet.

The whole point of the exercise, however was to try and get some frames that I could do something with in Nebulosity.

Spent today stacking and tweaking with this result. Not the best image in the world but, hey, I enjoyed it!!

Quite like the way a fogged lens causes the halo effect.

Ray

[Jannis]

I usually hate dew, but in this case it actually gave a nice look on your pic i think. ^^