My First Constallation

[petergc]

Hi SGL'ers

This is my first ever image so please be kind. I'm trying to get my head around stacking and using DSS and this is my result.

 I cannot for the life of me remember how many images, darks, flats and Bias I stacked because this must be the 20th image I stacked restacked deleated and stacked again. But I do know the following,

These are jpeg

Shot wit a Canon 60d

Shot on a camera tripod untracked

iso 500

f3.2

5secs

@37mm

This was taken from my back garden in a heavily LP area. (you will notice the light on the tree to the left of the frame)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qd2zm561pqqccrj/orion%2027.01.2014.TIF

[petergc]

Finally added it the gallery way!

Please comment guide tell me where I've gone horrible wrong

[davefrance]

Doesn't look at all bad to me. Personally I would crop it to remove foreground tree etc. Try shooting in RAW rather than JPG. Well done

[stargazer1960]

Thats a nice image for your first try........well done you will learn lots on here...

[LeeWilky]

Not bad at all for 5 second captures!

Have you tried lower focal length with much higher ISO and longer exposures?

At 18mm you can take around 20 seconds at a much higher ISO and edit the lp out later.

[petergc]

thanks. I tried to stack the Raw files. At first I couldn't get it to work so I downloaded the 3.3.3 beta version but the image looked blurry in places. I'm going to have a another go now

[sologuitarist61]

The constellation is very good, but I feel that the foreground tree is a bit distracting

[Yoddha]

Nice image! I have almost the same on film, taken ages ago with manual guiding Still remember the excitement of that image...

You are on the right way, but be ware it is highly addictive

[cantab]

Nice image.

You might try combining a single frame of the tree with the stacking on the sky, that would dim and sharpen up the tree I reckon.

[petergc]