Sixth time lucky, my 1st real image.

[MARS1960]

Thank heavens i finally got an image, i was seriously considering giving it all up but now i'm more determined than ever.

Lots of light pollution from a sulpher lamp 10 yards away and moon was up there but had a clip in CLS filter.

10 x 60sec @ ISO 1600, 10 x 20sec @ ISO 1600, stacked in GIMP and a quick levels/curves as running a very old cheap laptop till Dell arrives.

Thanks for looking.

[PeterCPC]

Well done. You are on the slippery slope now.

Peter

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice image

[Kazzmaniandevil]

there is hope for me yet!

[happy-kat]

You've cracked it, bet you can't wait to try again.

[MARS1960]

Thanks guys.

You bet happy-kat, I'm itching to get out and start imaging asap, just ordered an adaptor so i can use my finder scope, PHD2 and ZWO for guiding now .

[ShrewView]

I like that. Lovely colours.

Sounds like you're addicted already!

[Daniel-K]

well done , feel your pain its took my 3 nights to get my new kit working but its a great feeling when it all come together.

try bringing the blue inline with th red and green on the histogram. this will give you a better colour balance.

[MARS1960]

1 minute ago, Daniel-K said:

well done , feel your pain its took my 3 nights to get my new kit working but its a great feeling when it all come together.

try bringing the blue inline with th red and green on the histogram. this will give you a better colour balance.

Thanks Daniel, i will give that a try now, i'll feel more comfortable when my new laptop arrives as DSS and PS keep crashing on this old wind up lappy, hence using GIMP which i'm not at all familiar with.

[Daniel-K]

Just now, MARS1960 said:

Thanks Daniel, i will give that a try now, i'll feel more comfortable when my new laptop arrives as DSS and PS keep crashing on this old wind up lappy, hence using GIMP which i'm not at all familiar with.

Gimps not too bad once you learn your way around it. just nail the basics in Gimp like aligning your RGB adjust your levels without clipping the black point. and even a basic image will look good with simple processing skills rather than trying to get too much from the data.  

[MARS1960]

Well i gave it a try and i think it looks a bit better, thanks Daniel.

 

[wornish]

I would be very happy with your first real image.

I tried to get a similar shot and failed.

Great job

[MARS1960]

2 hours ago, wornish said:

I would be very happy with your first real image.

I tried to get a similar shot and failed.

Great job

Thanks wornish,

Take it from me, it will come, my first 5 attempts were either non existent or or just utter awful messes.

[wornish]

I have mastered the awful mess stage.