My First M16 with DSLR

[StargeezerTim]

My first DSO imaging for what seems like ages and was quite excited to have M16 on view for me for the first time. Unfortunately, the seeing was not good and I only managed 8 X 5min subs before the clouds rolled in and I moved to image M39.

Nevertheless, I'm pretty pleased with this, even though its only 40 mins total exposure. Hope to return to this again but the layout of my garden means I have a short window to image this.

8 X 5min, iso 1600, bias and flats, DSS, PS, heavily cropped.

[xtreemchaos]

very nice Tim, lovely colour and detail.  well done.  thanks  charl.

[Tzitzis]

Lovely pic Tim! So crisp... Well done!

[simmo39]

V nice, a lot clearer than mine. You have managed to get a lot of depth in the image. I must try harder ! lol

[JemC]

that's a very nice and impressive image, well done,

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Lots of detail captured.

[ringway9]

great image with a DSLR, inspires me to have a go at this target if we ever get any clear skies

[wimvb]

Great image of this famous target; well done!

The background seems a bit green to me, but it should be easy to correct this in PS.

Thanks for sharing,

[StargeezerTim]

21 hours ago, wimvb said:

Great image of this famous target; well done!

The background seems a bit green to me, but it should be easy to correct this in PS.

Thanks for sharing,

Thanks Wim,

I got over the green tinge by cropping it all out! 

Anyway, had a good crop and played about with the colours and produced a more vivid and colourful version that I think I just about got away with!

Amazing what you can do with with 40 minutes of data on a low down target affected by bad seeing. That's what I like about this hobby, sometimes everythings in your favour and you end up with rubbish and sometime you get a lovely image against all the odds. 

[PatrickGilliland]

Great work for 40 minutes (which is 8 times more sky than i have had in last two weeks), look forward to seeing the final version - should be a great images when the skies allow you some more data.

Paddy

[toxic]

great image Tim 

gosh i am really jealous of these images of  M16 it makes me want to move house.

[StargeezerTim]

4 hours ago, toxic said:

great image Tim 

gosh i am really jealous of these images of  M16 it makes me want to move house.

Try and move to somewhere a bit nearer it, the view is good from Mars ? ! 

[wimvb]

41 minutes ago, StargeezerTim said:

Try and move to somewhere a bit nearer it, the view is good from Mars ? ! 

Actually, the far side of the moon is better. Eternal cloudless skies, no atmosphere to cause bad seeing, nights are half a month long.

[StargeezerTim]

23 minutes ago, wimvb said:

Actually, the far side of the moon is better. Eternal cloudless skies, no atmosphere to cause bad seeing, nights are half a month long.

Whats property prices like. Also... is it part of the EU? I'm kind missing it already and wouldn't mind moving back.?

[wimvb]

Property is dirt cheap, but moving costs astronomical. Remote imaging is easier and would give you the opportunity to do imaging even with a full moon.

[StargeezerTim]

Just now, wimvb said:

Property is dirt cheap, but moving costs astronomical. Remote imaging is easier and would give you the opportunity to do imaging even with a full moon.

?

[matt-c]

That's cracking! What scope is this with? (Apologies if its in your signature I'm on the mobile version)

 

[StargeezerTim]

37 minutes ago, wimvb said:

Property is dirt cheap, but moving costs astronomical. Remote imaging is easier and would give you the opportunity to do imaging even with a full moon.

?

[StargeezerTim]

9 minutes ago, matt-c said:

That's cracking! What scope is this with? (Apologies if its in your signature I'm on the mobile version)

 

Skywatcher 150 pds...

[toxic]

2 hours ago, StargeezerTim said:

Whats property prices like. Also... is it part of the EU? I'm kind missing it already and wouldn't mind moving back.?

i own an acre of moon my kidds got it for me 2 christmas ago lol but its on the light side 

[StargeezerTim]

17 minutes ago, toxic said:

i own an acre of moon my kidds got it for me 2 christmas ago lol but its on the light side 

Is it timeshare!