First images with ZWO ASI 174MM-Cool

[chouet]

My lovely wife treated me to a mono camera for Christmas and these are my first efforts. One was taken using a WO FLT110 on 15th Jan, the other using a CPC925 on 20th Jan.

I did the stacking in AutoStakkert (Registax wouldn't open the files) which was a joy to use, and tried a bit of wavelet processing in Registax. Any advice for improving next time always appreciated!

Nick

 

[resonator77]

nothing to improve, cracking image as it is Nick

[Bizibilder]

Nothing wrong there!  Excellent images.

Have a try at Lucy-Richardson deconvolution instead of wavelets and see if you like the result.  http://greatattractor.github.io/imppg/  will get you to the software (freeware and greatattractor is a mamber here).

[Pete Presland]

A pair very sharp images a great first light!

[Drop Of Sun]

Wow, lovely, Nick, so much detail in the full image!

Another option to play around with sharpening (I really like your image as is, massive detail!) is Astra Image 4, it's not free but cost is pretty reasonable, sounds like they may have some new toys coming soon too:

http://www.phasespace.com.au/index.html

Lucky you with the ASI174 for XMas!

[laudropb]

Very nice first light images. Focus and detail is spot on.

[Astro Imp]

Lovely work, I viewed the full size image which is very impressive.

[nucdoc]

Excellent, wonderful camera !

[Mr Spock]

Excellent images.