NGC6960 - 23rd June 09

[daz]

Camera: SXVH9

Scope: WO 66

Guide: ED80 + SXV Guidehead

Subs: 24 x 300s

Filters: Baader Ha 7nm

Mount: EQ6

Processing: Aligned and combined in MaximDL, Noise Ninja, Noels Actions for contrast boost, no darks or flats applied

Can't tell you how chuffed I am to get this! Lost 1 frame from the whole set which is pretty amazing!! Will take some darks and flats and reprocess later, but needed my bed at 3am!!!

The larger version is in my album - hope you enjoy!

[Grant]

Mate!!! Awesome stuff!

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely to see your progress here Daz, very pleased for you , and you should be well pleased with that image , framed nicely ,and processed nicely , lovely round stars.

Great work .

Rog:)

[Beyond_Vision]

Great stuff Daz looks like you are fully operational and ready for the new season

Regards

Kevin

[SteveL]

I am so glad you got it all sorted, thats a great reward for all your work on the Obsy.

[daz]

Thanks guys

Thanks to you as well MrL for your advice and patience in my endless questions!!

[SteveL]

As always, its been a pleasure...

[themos]

Very nice detail, "natural" looking, like some firecracker going off towards the left. I notice that your hot pixels have created small trails upon stacking.

[barkis]

I bet you're chuffed. Obsy only just operational, and pulling stuff like this out. With a 2.5" scope too:D.

It's a wispy wonder this remnant, and looks fine in mono.

I bet you got to bed fairly quickly as well. Switch off, shut roof, bye bye's.

Ron.

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Daz...

Roll on dark nights...

Peter...

[daz]

@Themos - yes, I noticed those when I posted the larger version to my album. The processing was a quick effort, but I just couldn't resist!! Flats and darks tonight and possibly a colour or two....

@Ron, yep, couple of hours kip while it collected photons and then out to shut down. Back in bed 5 minutes later

[themos]

Do you need darks to eliminate hot pixels? I thought DSS had some trick up its many sleeves...

[MikeD]

Looking very nice Daz, looking forward to the final image with flats and darks don't forget the bias frames too.

Mike.

[daz]

Don't use DSS Themos, but I know Maxim has routines or options in the stacking set up.

Thanks Mike

Looks like colour grabbing will be out tonight, but darks/bias and flats should be do-able ....

[Aza]

Very nice indeed! You have picked up a ton of the faint stuff!

[FLO]

Very nice indeed Daz

What a great way to kick-off with your new observatory

[Tim]

Lovely Daz, that wispy stuff top left of image is really faint, but you have picked it up really well.

Be nice with some colour, or even just an OIII layer.

[Whippy]

Good work amigo, about time all that hard work started to pay off .

Tony..

[daz]

Thanks chaps

Looking forward to grabbing some colour for it, and then I can get to work on learning LRGB processing.

[daz]

OK, so got the calibration frames, and here is the result.

I have quickly learned that I need to document the processing steps, cos I can't remember (exactly) what I did before!!

Larger version in the album

[James]

I like the picture Daz, you've got tons of the wispy stuff.

James

[Ant]

Very nice buddy, very nice indeed.

5 minute subs... cool! pretty good for 2 hours mate. You've got some lovely detail.

Cheers

Ant

[Paxo]

Looking good Daz, withbthe new obsy you'll be rattling these off on a daily basis now.

Steve..

[daz]

Thanks chaps

(Hello Mr Paxo, long time no speak. Alright mate?)

[GordonH]

Hi Daz

That is really nice, this is one of my targets for later in the summer when it finall emerges over the top of my house, I would recommend that you try 600sec subs for the narrowband as even with the fast f/r of the WO 66 you will benefit from the extra exposure time, it is a nice smooth image though with plenty of detail, also if you get the chance add some OIII as it will really pay dividends

Best wishes

Gordon