NGC 1664 .... The Kite Cluster

[astroeddie]

Taken at F/6.3, C11 on wedge.

6 shots at ISO 800,total exposure time.... 1 min 40 secs.

Please let me know what you think. I'm just starting this astrophoto thingie.

Eddie ... hope the upload works :scratch:

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[Roy Batty]

Just looked this one up and you've got the main group coming through nicely.

What you need to do now is have a play with extending the time of each sub, whilst maintaining round stars. I suggest keeping with your ISO800 setting though.

Depending on your mount it should be possible to get 1min plus unguided subs, although this relies on good polar alignment.

best of luck

RB

[astroeddie]

RB,

Cheers, I have got to sit and have a good read up on precise polar alignments.

The C11 on its Wedge is one very heavy beast to try and tweek round. Bad enough just getting the scope onto the wedge. I just sighted polaris through the top bolt insertion and tried that.

Light Pollution is a major factor in my gardedn, and any length of exposure time results in ORANGE and nothing else.

TTFn .... Eddie

[Psychobilly]

HI Eddie nice start

Theres quite a lot you can do to process out the LP ....

If you have a looh through this thread you will find links on tecjniques as well as a quite amazign result.

PixinsightLE is a very useful and free tool to have available from here...

http://pixinsight.com/download/index.html

Billy...

http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,32470.0.html