Deneb Two Ways

[happy-kat]

Yesterday with my other mount the Virtuoso tracking went a bit aray so only managed 6 seconds.

Canon 1100d 50mm vintage lens f2.8 iso 800 baader Neodymium filter

50 x 6 seconds, flats and bias Stacked in DDS processed in StarTools.

Tonight I attempted the same area but using my manaual barn door tracker. Tomorrow I will stack just 10 images to compare time between the two. the area is almost the same I have a hot shoe red dot finder from astroboot ordered. deneb is just out of sight at the bottom.

69 x 30 seconds, flats and bias stacked in DSS processed in StarTools.

i wiill need to reprocess the barn door image I realised I did not bin it the same % in StarTools. I migth even register again in DSS to see how many of the 69 were actially used.

 

[StargeezerTim]

Nice... you got the North American nebula in the first one.

[happy-kat]

Thank you, I think it should be in the bottom one too.

More is less, in this case less tight. I'm going to restack the barndoor subs and be ruthless with any trailing as my stars have bloated from I'm guessing kappa signal stacking to round them.

[happy-kat]

Have reprocessed the barndoor stack, bottom image from first post, and only used images from a score of 15,000 upwards. This is a bin 35% as per the 6 second stack and heavily cropped to remove the gradient artifact mess of the hedge also captured.

 

[wimvb]

Nice. You definitely have the NA neb in both. Your camera isn't astromodded, I guess? Because they look very similar to what I got with my unmodded pentax.

[happy-kat]

My 1100d is not astro modded it's our day camera too.

[abhoriel]

NA nebula is an object where astromodding makes a huge difference iirc (I've not astromodded my DSLR because I also use it as a day camera!)

Great shots, especially considering it was done with a self made barn door tracker. I used to use a self made tracker but didnt get shots as nice as that

[happy-kat]

It was made so I could capture comet lovejoy and it worked, managed one two minute image I was very happy by that.

[wxsatuser]

On 12/6/2016 at 10:22, happy-kat said:

My 1100d is not astro modded it's our day camera too.

and you just proved that an unmodded camera is not needed.

If the colour could be corrected,  it would standout quite well.

[happy-kat]

I'm not totally sure I understand your comment, I keep reading it but I'm tripping up on the meaning.

I'm going to continue collecting images on this target as it is nicely placed for me at the moment. Though need the rain to do a runner!