First Light Imaging - again!

[martin_h]

Following on from Milans thread(below) I too was out last night on a steep learning curve, trying imaging with new equipment for the first time - HEQ8 synscan, the tube from my Nexstar 8SE and a QHY8 imaging cam being guided by a ST80 and HEQ5 guide cam with PHD and to tell you the truth it done exactly what it says on the tin! No driver problems everything worked 1st time! Well apart from the power supply to the mount 12v @ 2A I don't think so! upped it to 12v 4A and it all works fine.

I too was using Nebulosity for capture and stacking, trying 60 sec subs at first then upping it to 5 mins then 10 on M13.went inside while all this was going on only to come out later to see PHD pinging its head off at about 2 am - in my excitement at getting it all going I hadnt actually looked at where things were and M13 had gone behind next-doors roof - oops! all the 10 min subs were out of focus roof shots ho-hum! Anyway I'd done what I set out to do and that was realy getting it all set up and running.

The image below is 20 x 60 sec subs stacked and part processed ( another black art to look into)

[Aza]

Thats a great start Martin!

You have a lot more data hidden in your image there.

If you can post the tif straight from stacking (with no processing applied), I would like to have a go at it.

If you dont mind that, you can host the large tif flie at Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire

[milan]

Well done Martin. Like you its the post processing that seems to be the black art bit!

Would certainly be interested to see what you can get out of that Aza as im having the same problems as martin