Feeling crabby last night - updated

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

10 6 minute subs binned 2X.

Atik 16HR camera and Ha filter on 200mm f/5 Skywatcher Newt. sat atop an HEQ5 mount on a pier.

The guide 'scope was too bendy and too short a focal length to go unbinned. As it was the subs were nowhere near saturation so the subs would have to have been half an hour each unbinned.

Hope you like,

Captain Chaos

[geppetto]

That's a Cromer crab if I ever saw one 8)

Do I get the sneaking feeling that you like the camera then

[lunator]

CC

Good pic

You have some excellent filament detail in there.

Cheers

ian

[CELESCOPE]

well done CC coming together nicely eh mate , some filiments coming through , but best done when the moons not about , that camera will pick up even better on that one for sure

Rog

[garymcgrory]

really nice image great filament detail.

Excuse my ignorance but what is binned all about? I am looking at astrophotography in future but am unaware of the lingo.

Gary

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Binned is where adjacent pixels are teamed up to gather the light. 2X binning uses 2 x 2 blocks of pixels rather than using them individually. This lowers the resolution but each superpixel gathers more light as the pixel values in each block are added together.

Captain Chaos

[garymcgrory]

concise and highly informative

Merci.

[SteelRat]

Great stuff CC - gettin on with that HR nicely 8)

[Chubster]

Binned I was going to ask exactly the same...so your not alone Gary , take it this is a software thing if so which one ??

Another good pic CC...yet another reason from you for me to keep my scope

[anthony]

Very nice.

The crab has not appeared for a little while! Great to see it again.

Anthony

[MartinB]

Well done with this one CC. You've got the legs alright. It's not easy is it at that focal length

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Re-edited:-

Rog. was kind enough to send me some starter instructions to get me going with the 16HR, and now that I've taken the time to read them properly I'm getting to know how to process these things.

Captain Chaos

[CELESCOPE]

ah now thats alot better CC , very good image mate

Rog

[MartinB]

Lovely crab CC

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thanks guys. I really should have taken more time in processing, but I'm not much of a RTFM kind of guy so I went off half cocked. Now that the snow has messed up the nights, I can practise the processing some more. I might even get some kip!

Captain Chaos

[garymcgrory]

Outstanding improvement to the image CC, had a great view last night of the crab neb. and was even convincing myself that I could see a hint of structure in there but unsure if it wasn't the old imagination playing tricks on me.

I blame these awesome images you guys produce- convincing me that that I can see things that are not there, mind you, if you think you can see something isn't that the same thing as really seeing it? OH i can sense a serious bout of existentialism coming on- someone help me please!!!