Some DMK magic - conquering DSOs

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

With Saturn not playing the game I thought I'd have a go with my DMK on a couple of DSOs. Quite surprising really. Only Eta carina has had a bit of a curves stretch, the other two are hot out of Registax. No curves or processing applied. Shot through my 100mm celestron achromate with a 0.5X Mogg reducer.

1. Eta Carina. 25 @ 32 sec stacked in reg4
2. Omega Cent 21 @ 29 sect stacked in reg4
3 Sombrero Galaxy. 20 @ 55sec stacked in reg 4.

I've taken a couple of dark avi that I might apply to them later when I process them a bit more carefully in ImagesPlus. No flats unfortunately. Just thought I'd post the raw tiff.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

They are great Paul.

Webcam imaging is fun ain't it! Good to see you got a great Sombrero pic as well.

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

great shots paul! i like the ETA dreamy shot. your tracking is spot on.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow Paul, great work, well done.
Great to see the DMK is so versatile.

[gbeal]

Nice Paul. Makes you wonder why you didn't buy the bigger chipped model, and just use it for both DSO's, and Lunar/planetary??

[h0ughy (David)]

Well done Mr Ponders! I like the sombrero

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice work Paul!

[leon]

I like the Sombrero as well, really great stuff Paul

Leon

[sheeny (Al)]

Great stuff.

Al.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Top stuff Signor Ponders, I'm with h0ughy & Leon, on the Sombrero, the results look very promising.

[Striker (Tony)]

Your lucky you posted them on my Birthday making them brilliant images.

They would have been just rated as not bad if posted yesterday with the Omega burnt out but thats if posted yesterday....lol

Great stuff Paul.

[matt]

Interested to try a bit of this myself Paul, now the DMK has arrived.

So, how do you do this?

For example, what does the 25 refer to, when you refer to 25 @ 32 secs for Eta?

Do you capture 25 AVIs, process them, take the final (TIFF?) product of each processed AVI and then stack and process those in Regi or PS?

Also, what settings did you use in IC Capture?

Many thanks

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

25 frame avi at 32 sec/frame. Run it through registax and there you are. If I get some time today I'm going to try the Eta one through Images Plus and see what happens.

Exposure = 32 sec, Gain set low to middle of the road. Y800. I was autoguiding using a DSI on the G11 through the 8" sct. It was a bit jumpy but I was only imaging at around 500mm and f/5

[matt]

Great stuff.

Thanks Paul.

Must have a go at DSO. Would be silly not to when the cam's capable of long exposure