First Rosette

[Galen Gilmore]

This image was both a failure and a success at the same time. It was my first time shooting the rosette, and I wanted to make it a good one.

I was able to get 20x2mins on Saturday, and 40x2mins on Sunday. Although all of the images on Sunday became completely unusable, I accidentally had the DSLR slightly rotated within the focuser, and I guess more people had their lights on because LP was significantly worse.

So I was only able to use a small portion of the frames I collected, about 40 minutes. 

Although I felt like I really resurrected the image from the grave in post processing. I learned a new technique for gradient removal (the image had the worst gradient possible). And while it’s definitely not great, it looks a lot better than I expected it too be considering the state of the picture.