last night who wants a play with this

[LITTLE COL]

took this last night but a bit carp i am afraid iso800 62 secs

feel free to have a go

[LITTLE COL]

if you all want me to delete this pic just say so

:)

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Quick play.

Captain Chaos

[CELESCOPE]

dont delete nothing here Col , you have captured it just fine mate , just a bit of trailing , so look to your polar alignment ,may be a tad out , you should be able to reach 60 secs ok ,

Cheers

Rog

[Triskellion]

Hi mate

Thats not a bad pic at all youve nowt to be ashamed of there. Looks like you suffer from the same orange glowing sky i do. Give us some info on equipment you used and expaosures etc id be interested. I learned a very good if rough tip recently which can really help to get rid of the light pollution in pics like this. Do you have photoshop?

Andy

[LITTLE COL]

GOT PHOTOSHOP

pic took with canon300d iso800 62secs piggyback mount on skywatcher130p ( forgot the motor drive though and the wife had the berry lights on on the tree :)

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

So tonight, or the next clear night, set the motor drive going and chop the tree down. Should be better then.

Captain Chaos

[Triskellion]

Great, i took a very similar pic last night myself. Its been a good couple of nights for it cant go out tonight too knackered so hope it lasts for tomorrow. I think there is a very good rundown of what to do in the tips bit i saw on here. What i was told was very basic but seems to help a lot with the glow. i would post the results of what i did to mine but im new here and havent yet worked out how to get pics in the posts? anyone?

WHat i was told was to open the pic in photoshop and then go to enhance tab pic brightness/contrast. This brings up extra box, click on the black dropper and click into area of no stars where light pollution has brightened the background. this works well on my images. You can then use the slider bar to enhance the brightness of stars to get a much better looking image. Im sure there are better ways and i apologise if you already know this (im sure im very far behind most people) but i only just learning this and have found that i can make a lot of my huge collection of orange pics look a lot better so made me very happy

Andy

[Jamie]

I too had a wee play with your image.

[russ]

Hey COL, thats a great first go at a longish exposure. And you nailed the focus too and that's no easy feat with a DSLR in the dark. So many people have problems (i still do!) with the focus. Nice job!

One thing, you may want to get a CCD cleaning kit for the 300D as you have a few 'dust bunnies' on the chip. I bought mine from Warehouse Express for £15.

Regards

Russ

[LITTLE COL]

cheers russ i will do that i am posting some lunar images this morning when i get round to it

:)