Flame + Horsehead

[abodee2]

Had another go at NGC 2023 and 2024 with the Sigma 50-500 tonight but clouds came in after a half a hour of images. I came back and processed what i managed to get only ~ 30 minutes of data

this is 240s x 7 @ ISO800

Here's a link to the stacked file if anyone is interested: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jtv5bngo9q7jkt7/DSS.TIF?dl=0

[atomicmak]

nice one. can you tell if this is taken with 500mm or what focal ?

[Astrosurf]

Very nice indeed!    I assume you didn't take darks? These will remove the noise to a large degree. 

There seems to be a bit of distortion in the image round the left-hand side. I'm not at all knowledgeable about lenses so can't really comment! I'm sure someone knowledgeable will be along soon.

Alexxx

[MarsG76]

The Horsehead is definitely starting to come through, if you can get more subs it will smooth out the noise in your photo.

[Feral Rabbit]

Great attempt abodee2. As asked before what was the focal/magnification.

Looking forward to trying to capture this DSO when the clouds lift.

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Especially for so little data.

[abodee2]

nice one. can you tell if this is taken with 500mm or what focal ?

Great attempt abodee2. As asked before what was the focal/magnification.

Looking forward to trying to capture this DSO when the clouds lift.

It's at 500mm F5.6

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[StuartJPP]

Here's a link to the stacked file if anyone is interested: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jtv5bngo9q7jkt7/DSS.TIF?dl=0

Had a play with it in PI and PS. Could obviously do with capturing more data as always but there is still quite a bit tucked away in there.

I can't quite remember the sequence I followed as I tried all sorts of this to get at the data. But the main sequence was:

Dynamic Crop

Dynamic Background Extraction

Masked Stretch

Histogram Transform

Curves Transform

TGVDenoise

Colour Stauration

Then into PS for a bit of final tweaking and resizing.

Although I am no expert at processing (far from it), the reason I take on these challenges is to try to show people that by spending some money on software they can gain much more than they could by spending the equivalent on a piece of hardware (up to a point).

[abodee2]

Had a play with it in PI and PS. Could obviously do with capturing more data as always but there is still quite a bit tucked away in there.

I can't quite remember the sequence I followed as I tried all sorts of this to get at the data. But the main sequence was:

Dynamic Crop

Dynamic Background Extraction

Masked Stretch

Histogram Transform

Curves Transform

TGVDenoise

Colour Stauration

Then into PS for a bit of final tweaking and resizing.

Although I am no expert at processing (far from it), the reason I take on these challenges is to try to show people that by spending some money on software they can gain much more than they could by spending the equivalent on a piece of hardware (up to a point).

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That's amazing Stuart! Would you say there's a big difference between using PI and Photoshop? I've been thinking about buying PI for a while but I've just made do with PS CC for the time being

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[StuartJPP]

That's amazing Stuart! Would you say there's a big difference between using PI and Photoshop? I've been thinking about buying PI for a while but I've just made do with PS CC for the time being

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I think that PI and PS are complementary to each other. PI for stacking, DBE and certainly the first stages of stretching and I find PS easier to go from there.