M27 with GPCAM, Looking for opinions

[cuivenion]

Had a pig of a night last night, gotos all over the place, and then just as I get centered on a target the clouds roll in. Still I managed to get about 50 frames at 15s each with my GPCAM colour + Focal reducer, using a Skywatcher 130p. 50 frames + 50 darks, and cropped to get the file size down for my image host.

I think I'll call this a work in progress as I can always add more frames. I welcome criticism of the photo as a newbie to AP I want to learn as much as possible. With the above image I tried using the super pixel option when debayering in DSS and then drizzling 2x. Some more levels, curves and saturation was done in Registax.

This image was done with normal debayering and resizing instead of cropping. The curves and saturation are less aggressive.

Interested in hearing your thoughts.

Edited April 28, 2016 by cuivenion

[Dragon_Astro]

Really impressive

Have been looking at the GPcams myself for some quick Dso work and EAA, is yours the "Basic" camera that Altair (and others) sell?

look forward to seeing more 

[cuivenion]

Thanks, yeah it's the basic one there's a model out now with a better cmos (Sony Exmor) and better electronics for £170.

[cuivenion]

A different model to the basic GPCAM I hasten to add.

[Dragon_Astro]

Yeah have seen that one, the purple gpcamv2?

[cuivenion]

Yeah that's the one, I've not used it but it looks like a step up. I bought my basic gpcam and then saw that about a week later lol. Still this is a big improvement on the webcam I was using.

[Dragon_Astro]

Always the way, for an extra 30-ish quid lol

same here, think the basic gpcam would be a big improve to my old qhy5.

[cuivenion]

I wouldn't like to say I've never used a QHY5.