OMG It's full of stars

[blinky]

M3 from last night. 350D afocal with the 8" Newt, 32X30secs + Darks, ISO 1600. Cropped from the full image and 'enhanced' in Photoshop.

I love my new camera! But once again could not get up to the dizzy heights of 1 min subs! Guess I need to keep at the polar alignment

Do you think the black point is a little light? I am a bit undecided Other than that I am delighted with it 8)

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[beamish]

Cracker Craig, looks like it's onwards and upwards for you !!

Karlo

[moondog]

That's a fine M3 for 30 secs subs Craig.

The black point looks OK - certainly not too light.

Only comment I would make is to adjust the colour balance in levels. The reason the levels 'mountain' is jagged is that the Red, Green & Blue need moving until they line up. On the histogram window, top right, change it to 'colours'. Go to Levels, change to the Red channel and move the slider, watching the Histogram, and line it through with the Blue channel. Do the same with the Green channel and when you switch back to RGB in Levels the 'mountain' will have a single peak. The colour of the image, particularly the background, should now be balanced.

8)

MD

[Cloudwatcher]

You have every right to be delighted. :thumbup:

The 350D images are really cool aren't they? Photoshop can reveal so much hidden detail in the image when the dpi is increased and a little time spent on close scrutiny.

Cheers

CW

[CELESCOPE]

lovely glob that Craig ,well done mate , its Purrrfect

Rog

[MartinB]

Lovely sharp stars Craig Excellent work. Moondog's levels balancing advice is excellent and worth giving a try

[dogfish]

Very nice Craig. Are you still using WCS for your alignment? Was looking at this recently and saw your name on a forum.

Martin

[blinky]

I will give the colours another tweak. I had thought they were better before but I had a doc that described changing them to give the background a slightly off black colour!

[blinky]

Yup still using WCS, works pretty well, better than squating down to look through the polar scope

[Sam]

Great shot Craig - there's a heck of a lot of stars in that cluster.

Sam

[dogfish]

I'll download it before Kielder and get you to give me a tutorial

Sorry, thread hijack over.

Martin

[rawhead]

That's a fantastic picture. I wish the view I had last night was anywhere close...

[Beyond_Vision]

Very nice picture with good sharp focus. My only comment is that there are concentric rings of dark and light variations at the black level which may be some artifact of the processing.

Regards

Kevin

[blinky]

The concentric rings are my artificial flats skills Here is another image with the colour levels back to 'normal'

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[Paxo]

Excellent GC Craig, lots of detail in there for such short subs. :hello1:

Steve.

[SteelRat]

Really is a cracker of a globbie from the new camera Craig 8) Am well pleased for you. The centre is just great. Looking forward to seein the next one matey.

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[legion48]

Great Glob Craig.

[Andrew*]

Fantastic picture, Craig. Beautifully focused 8)

Andrew

[barkis]

You are certainly doing the business now Craig. Nice M3.

Ron.

[jgs001]

Very nice Craig.

[gary1968]

:shock: Thats a nice image Craig, how you mounting the camera afocal? with a brackety type thing or a Digi T adaptor thing?

I am trying to get a Digi T adaptor and stepper ring for my new camera just now but dont seem to be having much luck. Might end up buying one of those brackety things to get me started.

Keep the images coming though as they just keep getting better and better...............

Gary

[blinky]

Its a T ring to 2" adapter, then straight onto the scope.

[RobH]

Lovely work Blinky, nicely resolved :hello1:

Rob

[zhgutas]

Pin sharp stars and a huge snowball. what could be better..?

Marius