50mins on the Eskimo Neb

[blinky]

Bloomin clouds! Only managed 50mins in 5 min subs @F10 (2m)

Still pretty pleased though, the camera is still out taking Darks and tomorrow i will grab some flats and Bias as well..... So this is deffo a work in progress:) A very quick mess about with levels/curves in Photoshop to see what it looks like and now I am off to bed!

[steppenwolf]

Yup, I'd be pleased too - delighted to see someone getting at least a hole in the sky and to capture a great object too !

[ncjunk]

Good to see you got some subs, i like this one.

[Roy]

That's a good start on a very nice object,

I take my hate off to you mate, I tried imaging at f10 ONCE and gave up, it was a PITA

[NickH]

That's a great shot... and given the clouds even more so..

[Coolhandjo]

Good shot. Love this target!

[brendant]

Fantastic work in progress, tracking spot on at 2m well done and nicely processed with good detail and colour.

Brendan

[gary1968]

NIce one Criag, there is deffo potential in that one mate. All you have to do is get some sort of voodoo thing going and get them clouds ti **** out of the way!

Looking forward to the finished result mate.

Gary

[blinky]

It's clear outside at the moment Gaz!

[gary1968]

Not here it aint, not here........... :-(

Gaz

[lunator]

Craig

Looking good

You have caught the colour really well.

Cheers

Ian

[RobH]

Colour is looking great Craig.

The bit of trailing you have though is masking the detail in the core.

I've imaged this at F10 with both a 10 inch and 14 inch scope, and I find that you can do it in 2 minute subs easily as it's a pretty bright object, just get lots of them to stack.

That way you'll get all the detail without having to worry about perfect F10 guiding.

Also, as the core is very bright, long exposures tend to mask this by making the central star quite big.

Cheers

Rob

[blinky]

Cheers for the tip Rob. I now have another 6X5min subs so will stop them now and change to 2mins to see what I can get.

[adamsp123]

Love it, I will be interested how the shorter subs come out.

[R Fisher]

Well Captured,

I havent seen many attempts at this one, Never tried it myself but suspect it is a real challenge at F10, intrested to see how the shorter subs work out aswell.

[RobH]

When I first got into imaging, I had an alt/az mounted 10 inch LX200, and was limited to a maximum sub length of 30 seconds, and this was one of my first targets.

I think I did 21 second subs, but lots of them...50 or 60, and it came out fine (considering my lack of processing experience!).

The next bash I had was with a 14 inch LX200GPS@F10, and I did 50 x 90 seconds with an OSC camera.

This worked out just fine, and allowed me to catch the faint detail in the core too.

Cheers

Rob

[blinky]

I have got 40 X 120sec subs but as I am now too tired I have chucked them all into DSS along with the 300secs ones. I set it to the Max Entropy setting and will see what it looks like tomorrow....

I will also stack (tomorrow) just the 120second images to see how that looks so watch this space.

[blinky]

But here is just the 120second subs (40 of 'em) stacked with no darks, flats etc and a quick mess about with in Photoshop.

[RobH]

Great

I reckon a few more subs to get the noise down a bit more, and a tad less sharpening and she's there!!

What scope and camera BTW?

Cheers

Rob

[blinky]

Modded 350d and a Meade 8" SCT

[adamsp123]

Much "cleaner" the second image

[peter shah]

a fantastic image....beautiful colour

[blinky]

OK, Here is the final image. I took out about half the subs as I think they had a little trailing but now I'm not sure...... This image still seems to have misshapen stars, so it may not be the final image!

Anyway for now, here is a widefield and a closeup. I tried not to over sharpen as I usually do.

[gary1968]

Very nice Craig, theres loads of detail in there, and the colours are great too.

Gary

[ollypenrice]

Stone me! You did it! That is a GREAT result. Full marks for sticking to your guns...

Olly