M16 attempt

[Chrissy G]

hi all, tried my luck again last night, had a go at m16, couldn't quite get a good polar alignment so could only get 5 minute subs.

can see a bit of detail in the pillars, but have failed to bring out the dark eagle shape, damn this is hard:icon_scratch:

five 5 minute subs and one 5 minute dark iso 800

megrez 72 and eos 450

will try eos 450 on sw 300neq6 next time

would the quality be better??

any suggestions welcome

cheers

Chris

[JCJC]

Very well done Chris, unguided as well is that?

There's more in there than you think.

Had a quick play, hope you don't mind

[RobH]

Good capture Chrissy

Looks like you are suffering from quite a bit of light pollution!

Hope you don't mind.....I had a quick play to get rid of the LP, and also removed some background gradient using Gradient Xterminator.

Cheers

Rob

PS.......Just saw that Jordan beat me to it !!!

[JCJC]

Snap! Your version looks better though Rob, I should really get GradX soon.

Jordan

[Chrissy G]

nice results guys, will have to look for some free processing software, prs custom 24 is going to sap my funds next week. can never seem to get into inexpensive hobbies ha ha

[Catanonia]

Nice start, a bit of processing experience and you are on your way

Jealous, M16 is outa my reach

[Shibby]

Nice capture. "only 5 minutes"? I'd be chuffed with this! It's more than enough to capture some nice nebulosity. Try something larger, e.g. the pleiades (M45)

will try eos 450 on sw 300neq6 next time

would the quality be better??

The resolution would be better (your field of view smaller due to the longer focal length). But, as you are unguided, your max sub length would go down.

[Beyond_Vision]

Thats come out quite well for the short amount of time. I would try to get more light frames and also take a minimum of 10 darks preferably 16 or more.

Regards

Kevin

[Cloudwatcher]

............ failed to bring out the dark eagle shape, damn this is hard:icon_scratch:

I'll second that!

Had a try on a much enlarged version but just seem to have ruined a perfectly good image.