🐴 Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) - 12" f/5 GSO Dobsonian

[Tiago Ferreira]

🐴 Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33)
12" f/5 GSO Dobsonian
Geoptik Eartha Equatorial Platform
ZWO ASI224MC
Baader IR/UV cut L-filter
Gain=400
Exposure=5s
80 frames
15 Darks
100 bias
Windy conditions
Processed in DSS+PS

[MartinB]

That must have been a nightmare in the wind, well done for getting this.  Your stars don't look trailed, could you have gone for longer exposures?

[Tiago Ferreira]

10 hours ago, MartinB said:

That must have been a nightmare in the wind, well done for getting this.  Your stars don't look trailed, could you have gone for longer exposures?

 

i don't know. i like to do short exposures

it was funny but then i had to stop because of the wind. i am too exposed without buildings around

[EntropyTango]

Yes its pretty good for a Dob with basic tracking

Well done

[Tiago Ferreira]

4 hours ago, EntropyTango said:

Yes its pretty good for a Dob with basic tracking

Well done

Thank you. It's my 1st attempt at this object. I was very excited framing it lol

[callisto]

20 hours ago, MartinB said:

Your stars don't look trailed, could you have gone for longer exposures

I was thinking the same 🙂

[Kon]

Great job for a Dob! As others said, a longer exposure should be possible with your eq platform.

[Tiago Ferreira]

i don't want to wait too much. I just wanna see the object the best i can but just for a while.

[Luke Newbould]

@astrocanito - I'm sometimes the same and just want to take a look at an object without making a big project of it  Have you considered live-stacking using Sharpcap Pro? you can see the image develop live on screen, frame by frame, which is amazing! - All while making use of automatic frame rejection based on a variety of factors, on the fly flat + dark correction, colour correction, and much more! - I love it for this purpose and really highly recommend it 

[Tiago Ferreira]

6 hours ago, Luke Newbould said:

@astrocanito - I'm sometimes the same and just want to take a look at an object without making a big project of it  Have you considered live-stacking using Sharpcap Pro? you can see the image develop live on screen, frame by frame, which is amazing! - All while making use of automatic frame rejection based on a variety of factors, on the fly flat + dark correction, colour correction, and much more! - I love it for this purpose and really highly recommend it 

YESSSSS! I love it too and that's my purpose. I just upload astrophotos for people to see that it is possible to do nice things with a DOBSONIAN.

I'm trying the live stack with many fails BUT yesterday i finally did it and i had a topic in CN and also here in stargazerslounge:

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/373961-finally-i-did-something-decent-in-eaa-ngc-2438-planetary-nebula-12-f5-gso-dobsonian/