Rosette 3rd Feb

[blinky]

I setup as soon as I got home from work yesterday as BBC weather had it clear and I thought the moon would be up an hour or so after dark. In the end Luna never appeared till around 11pm, shows how much I know - I never can work it out!

Anyway with this bit of good fortune I spend a total of 3hrs on the Rosette in 10min subs - so this is 18X 10 min subs. The camera was my modded 350d and the scope was an ED80. The guiding was spot on last night as well so I have night tight stars even when zoomed to 100%.

The good thing with my setup now is that I can leave it all running and stick the Telegizmo cover over the scope and camera's. So.... at midnight I retired for the evening leaving it running the dark frames, today when I came home I took some flat frames (50 of 'em).

Anyway here is my image, stacked in DSS and tweaked in Photoshop - I took the red channel and sharpened that, then added it back in as a Lum layer - does that make this RRGB? I did take an image of this last year and was quite pleased but I think this years effort with more subs, modded cam and most importantly Flats (I find a false flat is no good when there is something like the Rosette in the middle as it gets mistaken as vignetting, or at least the way I create a false flat it does!).

As always I am open to suggestions on any further improvements I can make, I am not 100% happy with the colour of the background - I played about removing some green and adding blue and settles on this.

So..... enough waffling.....

[Deneb]

Thats a beautiful fov Craig, it gives me an insight what it would image like in a C80ED.

Cheers

Nadeem.

[Beyond_Vision]

Thats very nice Craig with a good amount of detail

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

A nice rich Rosette Craig, a good three hours well spent.

The 350D and ED80 are a great combo,and work well for you.

Well Done, it's a fine Image.

Ron.

[JCJC]

Superb image, great sharp detail. Did you use any reducer or flattener for this?

Jordan

[blinky]

Yeah I used a WO FFII. Its a crop as well, not the full frame.

[Coolhandjo]

Congradulations on a wonderful image. Well done...

[russ]

wow wee that is something special indeed. Awesome colour, detail and field. Stunning image!

Russ

[gary1968]

Very nice Craig, great colours and focus is spot on as you mentioned. The background looks a bit 'red' to me, or is that the faintest traces of the neb. Anyway, its a cracker, thanks for sharing.

Gaz

[Hawklord]

It is indeed 'a cracker'. Lovely shot - well done.

[Dean]

Nice result Graig I have a similar set up to you but have not had the time to try the Rosette.

Thanks for sharing

Dean