Old M51 RGB with some added L from the QHY5L-II-M

[Jannis]

The 3.5 hours of RGB data was originally captured back in March 2013 with the 550D and with the moon close by at around 82%.
At the time i was quite happy with it, but i always felt it was lacking some details.

In March 2014 i captured some L data with the QHY5L-II-M. About 65x 1 min exposures. The details were there, but due to the lack of Registar it would take me another 2 years to add it to the RGB image, which i now finally have. It's more noisy, but so much more detailed!

Attaching 2 versions of the LRGB, and the old RGB for comparison.
Also the L data for those who's curious what the QHY5L-II-M "guide/planetary" camera is able to capture.

[wimvb]

Great result.  The QHY5L really shows its capabilities.

[laudropb]

Very nice. Lovely detail and colours.

[Daniel-K]

That is seriously impressive. Just goes to show that these little cmos sensors can do more than guide.

[Jannis]

Thanks!

I'm very impressed as well, and will for sure give this camera a go at more targets instead of just guiding.
The increase in details and sharpness is very notisable, and i actually expected the 550D to be far superior to a guide-camera at this.

I've also got myself some adapters to use it with my Canon and Olympus lenses, which i think can be very nice for wide-field NB imaging with bright lenses. Now i just need to find out how to attach the lenses on the HEQ5 mount...

[Daniel-K]

http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/geoptik-80mm-universal-vixen-style-dovetail-bar.html

Heres a short dovetail so you can attach your camera to your mount.

[Jannis]

6 minutes ago, Daniel-K said:

http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/geoptik-80mm-universal-vixen-style-dovetail-bar.html

Heres a short dovetail so you can attach your camera to your mount.

Thanks, but i already have this one (or a copy of it). It works perfectly for attaching my DSLR with normal lenses to the mount, however what i'm looking for now is a way to attach my QHY5L-II-M with a canon/olympus lens to the mount. As all my lenses are different i probably have to come up with a custom made bracket myself though?

[MartinB]

You've certainly pulled out some plenty of detail with QHY5.  The LRGB looks a bit black clipped and has lost the fainter outer regions on my monitor.  I've downloaded your jpegs and had a tweak in photoshop.  I think I prefer the tweak but it's all down to personal preference

 

[Daniel-K]

http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/geoptik-canon-eos-lens-ccd-adaptor.html

Have you seen these. Not sure if you could make something like a reducer to hold the qhy5 on the rear.

[MartinB]

Actually that's come out pretty clipped as well on my monitor compared with pre upload.  Had a look on my phone and your images look much better on that.  Something amiss with my new (and expensive!) monitor

[Jannis]

Thanks Daniel! I had not seen that type of adapter before. It's pretty much precicely what i'm looking for, but the price if rather high so i think i'll have to make something myself for now. Maybe next saeason i have more money saved up.

Thanks for the modification Martin. The thing is i started processing it on my main computer with a very good display, and then i had to finish it off on my laptop - which unfortunatly only shows like 65% of the sRGB and have a very poor gamme-curve, so when calibrated the the colors are mostly right, the black is clipping. I was hoping it would look better on the "average" display then on my poor laptop display, but i have to agree that your verson looks better.

[Jannis]

13 minutes ago, MartinB said:

 Something amiss with my new (and expensive!) monitor

Probably already checked it, but - you did remember to set display profile in PS and convert image? Done that misstake myself multiple times, hehe.
I've converted all the imaged to sRGB before uploading, exept the mono of course.

[aeut]

That's amazing