Jellyfish Ha ASI 1600mm

[Allinthehead]

This was an image of firsts for me. First Ha, first time doing a meridian flip, first time leaving my rig unattended, first time using flats, and first Jellyfish.

Image was captured Friday night/Saturday morning.

Sw 80ed with .85 ff giving 510mm 

Zwo Asi1600 with astrodon 5nm ha

Az eq6

Captured with SGPRO

Stacked in DSS

Processed in photoshop

157 * 120 second exposures at gain 300 offset 15 cooled to -30

70 * flats

70 * darks

100 * bias

Seeing was poor i captured 7hrs but only 5 had reasonable star shapes.

I also got some shorter lenght frames to deal with that big blob of a star. Can anyone point me in the right direction for fixing this in photoshop? 

Thanks for looking.

 

 

Edited November 27, 2016 by Allinthehead

[Yamez]

That is a stunning first! Great work.

[Allinthehead]

1 hour ago, Yamez said:

That is a stunning first! Great work.

Thanks Yamez. 

 

[MattJenko]

This is an insanity tough target for the ASI1600, good effort.

[Allinthehead]

9 hours ago, MattJenko said:

This is an insanity tough target for the ASI1600, good effort.

Thanks Matt. Just need to do something about that blob of a star.

[PatrickGilliland]

Well with all those firsts in one night the image would have been inconsequential but on top of that you have a great start to a super image well done.

Paddy

[Allinthehead]

1 hour ago, PatrickGilliland said:

Well with all those firsts in one night the image would have been inconsequential but on top of that you have a great start to a super image well done.

Paddy

Thanks Paddy.

[Allinthehead]

Had a go at reducing that big blob of a star.

[Guest]

That is absolutely fantastic! Excellent detail in the head of the jellyfish as well :-)

Way to go :-)

David

[laudropb]

Very nice detail in your image. Well done.

[Allinthehead]

20 hours ago, David_L said:

That is absolutely fantastic! Excellent detail in the head of the jellyfish as well :-)

Way to go :-)

David

 

18 hours ago, laudropb said:

Very nice detail in your image. Well done.

Thanks guys.

[simmo39]

Yep, V nice indeed.

[Allinthehead]

 

5 hours ago, simmo39 said:

Yep, V nice indeed.

Thanks Simmo.