My first horsehead

[mikeobrien]

First horse head, what a thrill to see it in the framing images!

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[DaveGarland]

Awesome

What equipment and settings ate behind that?

[WaveSoarer]

That's excellent. +1 for more details.

[Andy_E]

Lovely shot... when did you take the subs?

[Quatermass]

Very nice indeed

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[sabin_fota]

for the 1st time is very good

keep up!

[mikeobrien]

Skywatcher 12" f5 newt on an azeq6 camera qhy8l autoguided 7x10min sub's opticstar uhc filter.

Thanks for all your kind comments. It was taken about 3weeks ago very close to sunrise.

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[Ewan]

Amazing detail for just 110 minutes, i like the processing on the colour especially.

[jackrussell0232]

If this is you're first horsehead neb image, you should be very happy.  It's cracking.

Also shows what you can get out of a reasonably priced one shot colour camera.  Don't think you can get much in this hobby for the price of a qhy8L.  What do you think of it in general?  They seem to be the 'marmite' of the ccd world, you either love or hate them. 

[mikeobrien]

I love the qhy8l its really sensitive very easy to use and has consistently given me great results. It does have quite a few hot pixels but they are easily delt with. The chip size is massive (APS-C). I won't be changing mine in a hurry I was using an unmoded canon7d and 40d but the why is far superior lower noise more sensitive less effected by sky fogging.

Mike

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[Raga]

Beautiful first horse head. Amazing. Very nice indeed.

[x6gas]

That's a great first horsehead - congratulations.

Looks like you have not used flats on this image and I really would encourage you to give them a go - they'll deal with the vignetting you're seeing in the corners.  I know people say they are a faff, but I use the white t-shirt method and it's easy to shoot a set at dusk or dawn.

[mikeobrien]

I have tried flats but had problems getting them to work.

Mike

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