My 2nd DSO, M57 1st attempt

[acharris77]

Hi all, with the weather, light skies and little problemsthe goto with my scope last night I decided to get out with the scope now I got it reasonably sorted out, so I setup goto, check tracking was OK and swung the scope to M57 to have a look visually at it, as it is my 1st time I seen it with a scope.

So I decide to get the 840k sc1 out and decide to try and image it. Using 16 x 15 sec subs I got the following result:

I wish I had better darks, as mine had a lot of hot pixels. Used DSS to stack, then CS 4 to tweak a little. Got some 20 secs I want to look at tonight as well. Thanks.

[Simon1990]

Very good shot for a first attempt mate! I don't think I could do the same

[Psychobilly]

Nice shot Anthony...

The Darks should have hot pixels thats the whole point ..

When the Darks and lights get "processed" together the hotpixels in the resulting stack will be reduced or even completely removed...

Peter...

[acharris77]

Thanks for comments. that is why darks are used. I did not know that, I thought it might have been something else like a too hot camera causing problem or the setting to brights. Thanks for that explanation, as at least I know now. Thanks again Peter for the explanation.