IC 405 Flaming nebula in progress

[whizzbang]

Hi All, 

a quick in progress IC 405 in Ha, currently 3hrs worth of 600s subs using a Altair Astro 102 wave refractor. Imaged from my back garden in south london.

does this look ok?, a bit noisy maybe, but it also seems a little faint for around 3 hours worth of data??

comments always welcome.

thanks

russ

[whizzbang]

Same target, different day, same processing (PI) except this is 12 * 900s subs

[poogle]

Absolutely gorgeous! What CCD did you use to capture this? Did you use darks or just a low camera temperature?

Have you tried stacking the 600 and 900s subs together? Would be interesting to see what it does to the noise.

/Patrik

[Twisted Lip]

Great pics, agree with Poogle it would it interesting to find out your imaging set up.

[whizzbang]

Hi Guys, 

Sorry, yes, of course, the set up is as follows

NEQ6 mount, guided with a QHY5 and a ST80, main scope is the Altair 102 wave, using a 0.8 focal reducer at f5.6, imaged using an Atik 383L at -20 degC. 20 darks, 20 bias, and 20 flats, all combined in PI.

going to try to stack the two days together there is however a lot of rotation between the two images, due to the 'Lad'  taking too much interest in daddies telescope......

[Twisted Lip]

Ah the good 'ol Atik 383L, I'm very jealous they're great bits of kit.

Will

[whizzbang]

Hi Will,

Thanks, im just starting to get used to it, its been away for a while being repaired, superb customer service form Atik. the shutter had worked loose on the motor shaft.

anyway, both days combined and cropped due to the field rotation.

enjoy.......i know i do 

http://www.astrobin.com/66702/

Russ

[Twisted Lip]

Looks great! Are you taking that from your Brixton location? I'm guessing you must have loads of LP there which makes the image even more impressive!

Will

[ollypenrice]

Your capture looks good to me and does, I think, have more to give in terms of local contrasts. These can be worked on to get more 'attitude' from the capture. I use Ps but I think that LHE and or multiscale processing in PI might be the thing.

Olly