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[alacant]

Hi everyone

Still caring for the abandoned and unloved 6" f8.

Just time for 14 frames before sunrise, but this looks promising. Nice to get close, alas Alnitak is still in the frame. I wonder if turning the camera 90º would isolate the horsehead and lose Alnitak altogether but maybe the spikes would remain even though it was out of frame? I wonder...

Cheers and thanks for looking. All replies most gratefully received

700d on nt150l

Edited December 26, 2019 by alacant

[knobby]

I like it, maybe as you suggest rotate camera or crop slightly but I like it anyway

[alacant]

Now at 30 frames. Much easier:

[geeklee]

Looking good 👍 Some nice detail coming out in NGC 2023 as well. 

[alacant]

Here we are rotated 90º. Not quite the improvement I was hoping for...

[ollypenrice]

You could crop the top out if this if you so wished and it would still be an attractive framing.  It hasn't happened to you this time but, quite often, when you move a bright star out of the frame it throws up a big flare like a light house beam.

When we imaged this in a 14 inch reflector we had such beams from the bright blue stars west of the Horse.

Olly

[carastro]

Alnitak is a traditional feature of this target, why do you want to crop it out?

I'd be more inclined to move the FOV to the left and get the whole of Alnitak in. 

Nice image by the way. 

Carole

Edited January 4, 2020 by carastro

[alacant]

4 hours ago, carastro said:

crop it out?

Hi. Curiosity really. If you take the landscape shot and cover Alnitak, it somehow seems a stronger, less distracting composition (?). Dunno. Good point.

 

[alacant]

Interesting observation: Rotation seems to have lost detail and colour. Does rotating a jpg lose information? I wonder...