HorseHead

[Stu Wilson]

I had a go at this tonight being the 1st clear night in a long time.

12 x 300 sec iso 400

40 x bias

DSS and PS

SW 200P orion autoguider Canon 650D

[tooth_dr]

Very nice Stu. Love the colours. Have to tried taking flats?

[Stu Wilson]

1 hour ago, tooth_dr said:

Very nice Stu. Love the colours. Have to tried taking flats?

Yeah need to spend time getting flats darks etc.

Was pushed for time last night but very surpised/pleased with the result :-)

Clear skies.

[feilimb]

Hi Stu well done on the image it looks great.  Can I ask did you have any filters in the Canon DSLR or whether the camera itself was modified for astrophotography?

The reason I ask is last night I had my first attempt at the horsehead myself - I shot a single 5 minute light frame at ISO800 (on my Canon 450D).  I know obviously I would need more than one light frame, but I figured a noisy horsehead should be visible in a single frame, however when I opened it in PixInight and stretched the image there was no sign whatsoever of the nebula.  I started wondering if my exposure was too short at 5 minutes or why I couldn't see anything..

[Stu Wilson]

The Horsehead didn' appear in my image until stretched, curves, noise reduction, high filter pass  etc etc etc.

Like I say I was pleased at the outcome.

Also no my 650D is standard and no filters.

:-)

[laser_jock99]

On 06/02/2018 at 23:26, Stu Wilson said:

I had a go at this tonight being the 1st clear night in a long time.

12 x 300 sec iso 400

40 x bias

DSS and PS

SW 200P orion autoguider Canon 650D

Great result.

[Stu Wilson]

19 hours ago, laser_jock99 said:

Great result.

Thanks. I'm very pleased with it.