Robd Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Finally got out on Friday but beaten by clouds coming in around 23:30 ish.M42 Only managed 14 x 45seconds and 2 of those had drifted a bit too much so were disgarded. I'de had a mare of an evenig trying to align correctly Stacked twice in ImageSXM on mac.One set with no gamma stretching to retain as much of the trapezium as possible, the second set with a medium gamma stretch.Obviously need more images to stack with both longer and shorter exposures. First time out with the Baader Contrast Booster - has certainly reduced the blue halo on the brighter stars.I think that the banding at the bottom is caused by th overhead cables - had not realised they were in the way , must also learn to centre the target So details of image:-12 x 45sSkywatcher 150 f5Pentax K10DIso 400Baader Contrast boosterTweaked in Photoshop(click to enlarge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Real nice job on this one, great colour and detail.I can see the running man starting to show too. :DMike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobH Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Good image Rob, Nice depth and colour....yep, the wee running fellow is there too!CheersRob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgs001 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Nice image Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkis Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 A very attractive Image Rob.Plenty of detail, and swirly stuff, and the colour is great.All for 9 minutes can't be a bad result. Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CELESCOPE Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Yup excelent result on that one , core beautiful as well , first class , Rog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 That's a great result Rob - nice and clear and wonderful colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarbi Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 It's a nice one Rob, specially because the trapezium is not saturated. Good colors as well !cheers,Janos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Some very nice detail and colouring - lovely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centroid Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Yep, its all there Rob, and its a very nice result too.Nice work indeed!!.Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinB Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 That's an excellent job with the data you had. Nicely balanced colour and brightness. Core looking good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robd Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Thanks one and all.Had another go on Saturday - had a mare of a time getting alignment set up - went thru polar align 3 times then 3 star. Finally put brain into gear ( actually getting desparate and was going thu all the set up options ) and realised I had the wrong B****y date :D - retched yankee formats ( no offense to you guys and gals on the far side of the pond but why we can't set the required date format to UK I do not know ). Any way after 90mins of messing around finally started taking pickies. Alignment was still rubbish so max 30sec exposures. The drift was still so bad that the running man had drifted off the side of the frame. Akltogether a dissapointing nightShould have another go tonight if the weather holds Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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