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[astrokat]

i love this area of sky ive manage to get 2h 30min in 5min subs guided with the lvi im most inpressed with the guider pin point stars worth every penny ive gone with a gentile process trying to keep star colour

any advice is all ways welcome

thanks for looking

toby

[paul11]

That's great,i had a go at this one last night but i'm not sure i got it all in the FOV. What mm did you take this at?

[barkis]

You have a right to be pleased with this. It's a fine pic. of the N/A Nebula. Cygnus is alive with stuff, so fill your boots as the saying goes.

Ron.

[astrokat]

i have no idea what it was taken at lol other than iso 800 on 70mm zenithstar gonna get some more data tonight hopefully or may have a go at network nebula

thanks guys toby

[paul11]

From what I can work out from your scope you were shooting at about 300mm less than me and that explains why I only got half of it.

[astrokat]

got a fue more hours total of 5h 45min all iso 800 5 mins sub im quite happy with this one i think

[ollypenrice]

Ee by gum, very nice. I like the sultry dark background and the natural way the nebulosity emerges. A light touch on the processing there.

Olly

[astrokat]

thanks olly

[PortableAstronomer]

The pic might look even better if you crop out the left side of the frame, where it is mainly background stars, and a bit of coma maybe in the corners.

The guiding looks good, but it would be better if you could share how you processed the image.. How many stacks did you take? What did you do to align and process them? What techniques did you use? How dark is your local sky? What did the un-processed frames look like? etc...

The pictures are great, but the story of how we produce them is much more interesting.

Clear skies

Chris

[astrokat]

ok so last night i manage a fue more hours last night in all 7h 45 min all iso 800 in 5 and 8 min subs all stacked in dss and processed in photoshop cs2 also using noels action guiding with the lvi guider

thanks for looking

and processing advice would be good thanks

toby

[SlipperySquid]

It's looking sweet mate...can't wait till I can afford a guider and mod me old eq5....then I can get really good images of the light pollution around my house...orange skies for the win!

Nice work ..looking forward to seeing more!!!

[astrokat]

lol ive got load of lp at ourgate if you want some lol

thanks bud

toby

[astrokat]

is it worth getting more date for this image?

[peter shah]

thats a beaut....super processing

[astrokat]

thanks pete just looking at you nice web site how or who does your prints as i want to print some of mine off , love the gold pier very nasa lol

[peter shah]

the mylar works very well on the pier, i have done quite a bit of refinement to the observatory and scope, im just getting it to how i want it;)

i use Colab, its a pro lab based in Coventry, you will need to callibrate your monitor to their machines to get good colour reproduction.......most pc monitors are close...it all depends on how picky you are....I am!

download their software and set up an account....but there are quite a few other companies that will do this service for you... ive used them for about 18years or so.

[astrokat]

ohh thanks pete gonna do this now whats the mylar for i see you even have rain sensors that wicked i have to set the alarm of every other hour and check mine leaves me all over the place the next day lol

[astrokat]

pete i cant find the download and chance of a link plz