Some Pics from Dalby

[Gordon G]

Finally managed to get some pics of my camera and have a play,

Milky way shot 175sec 1600asa. There is loads of noise and i am not to impressed with the performane of the camera at 1600, will definitely stick with using it at 800asa. Camera piggbacked on my lx200

M31 130secs again at 1600asa again very noisy, this is the first time i went for m31. Taken through 80mm Megrez

Snapped between the clouds.

Dalby, nice site to observe from also had the chance to play with a 24"dob and the views were :shock:

Cheers

Gordon

[geppetto]

You must be pleased with those Gordon

Lovely shots, particularly like the miky way one 8)

[chewy]

Nice them really like the M31

Is it just one sub or have you stacked more

If its one (which I think it is ) got to be a keeper

Ian

[russ]

those are superb images. For single subs though they are stunning. The Dalby skies are obviously pretty impressive.

Russ

[daz]

Great images there Gordon

[Gordon G]

Cheers guys, i did get a lot of info running a 1600asa but got a lot of noise as well, played with them in cs2 and using noels' tools. There is even more detail in there (esp the M31 ) but i find when playing with levels, too much noise comes out as well for the piccy to remain "reasonably nice"

The skies at dalby were very nice, two light domes from whitby and Scarborough but quite nice straight overhead with very little LP.

Cheers

Gordon

[OXO]

Wonderful image of M31 you managed to capture Gordon well done indeed

Had a play with the Image in PS this entailed changing the Levels RGB and removing some noise with Gauss blur and Despeckle then playing with The highlights/Shadows option...

I did'nt want to process it too much mind

[Gordon G]

Thanks james

Does look cleaned up there.

Ta

Gordon

[OXO]

Here's your Milkyway image which is superb!

This was an easy one to edit just played with the levels in PS CS2.

James 8)

[OXO]

Your welcome Gordon these are fine images

[russ]

Had a quick play.....superb images btw

Russ

[Caz]

Blimey, those are something else, fantastic! Nice edits too guys, brought out the detail.... 8)

[FLO]

Very nice 8)

[Gordon G]

Thanks for the comments and edits

Ta

Gordon

[CELESCOPE]

Hi Gordon, sorry i missed these , well they are both wonderful images mate , u should be proud of both , M31 for me as i know just how hard that is to get , well done keep them coming

Rog

[tom.yates]

Great shots Gordon.

[gaelicstorm7]

Superb shots Gordon, as you say 1600 does grab the detail but it also grabs alot of noise on the longer exposures.

Gotta love that M31

Alan

[Ant]

I LOVE that milky way shot!

I was looking at my attempt last night, yours is 175 seconds(350D) mine was 132 seconds (300D), yours is a million miles better than mine!

I would post mine up but seeing yours I don;t think I'll bother!

Keep 'em coming they are stunning, both of them!

Ant