Second ever attempt - NGC2023

[Jonny_H]

Hi all,

I managed to get 30 minutes worth of lights in tonight on NGC2023.

This is my second ever attempt using the 533MC Pro and I am pretty pleased with it albeit not perfect. It seems a little 'grainy'.

Anyhow - 10 x 180 sec lights, 10 x darks, 20 x flats, 30 x bias @ 150 gain. Stacked in APP, tweaked in PS.

Let me know your thoughts.

Clear skies!

Jonny

 

[Luke Newbould]

Hi Jonny,

I think for 30 minutes it's a really good picture regarding grain/noise, that would simply decrease with more integration time of course!

To my eye I do see quite a bit of excess green noise in the image, that's probably making it a bit more noticeable - depending on your processing software there's different ways to deal with it but it's never really a difficult task

 

Cheers!

[Jonny_H]

3 hours ago, Luke Newbould said:

Hi Jonny,

I think for 30 minutes it's a really good picture regarding grain/noise, that would simply decrease with more integration time of course!

To my eye I do see quite a bit of excess green noise in the image, that's probably making it a bit more noticeable - depending on your processing software there's different ways to deal with it but it's never really a difficult task

 

Cheers!

Thanks Luke.

Yes I will up the total integration time next time. 

Re: processing software- I am using an old version of PS (CS2). I am quite new to processing so I am using it quite badly at the moment! 😆