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Old 15-12-2014, 10:49 AM
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First Light - Sony A7s & the Horsehead

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See my blog update for details, link down in my signature. I'm pleased with early testing of the camera.
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Old 15-12-2014, 11:07 AM
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Looking good Simmo, very clean - Maybe boost the saturation a bit?
That FOV will be awesome on SMC/47 Tuc and Rho Ophiuchi regions.
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Old 15-12-2014, 11:32 AM
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Simon, the amount of detail in even 1 minute for the horsehead is amazing! What a great camera!
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Old 15-12-2014, 11:34 AM
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Thanks Andy.

I've just signed up for Adobe Cloud, so here's a lightroom developed version, yeah I went crazy with a few settings. But wow, the editing has revealed a heap of dust and other details that can be extracted from the image.
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Old 15-12-2014, 11:51 AM
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more subtle version now, but still extracts more dust details
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Holy Photons Batman !!
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Old 15-12-2014, 01:13 PM
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Look at the clarity! Very nice. Amazing rig and great work too.

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Wow, that's looking nice from only an hour of exposure
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Old 15-12-2014, 04:51 PM
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Oops!! wrong forum.
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Old 15-12-2014, 05:22 PM
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Glad to see it turned out so well. It's good to see the final product after our chat on sat/sun night.

Now I'm off to the classifieds to find my scope and mount
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That's crazy stuff. I notice you have a Takahashi E130 - that also needs to take a little credit as it's a superb instrument.
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Old 15-12-2014, 07:23 PM
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That's funny Raymo!

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Old 15-12-2014, 07:24 PM
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Great to meet you Matt, best of luck with the shopping, take your time remember, I know I did.

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great work simon -i saw the little tak in the cnr of the imaging field at the star-b-q..sony has really pushed the envelope with the FF bodies, the latest having 5 axis IBS -nothing beats the a7s for low light though
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Best resolution here

See my blog update for details, link down in my signature. I'm pleased with early testing of the camera.
I'm liking this camera more and more. I have been a little worried by the monster pixel size given that I image at between 14mm and 700mm, and getting square stars, but your full size image shows only an inkling of squareness and even then that is only visible zoomed outrageously close in. Very nice.

I'm now and avid follower of your blog
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Old 16-12-2014, 10:03 AM
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Best resolution here

See my blog update for details, link down in my signature. I'm pleased with early testing of the camera.
Some great versions of the Horsehead and area!

It is indeed a great astro camera:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...cAvg-DDP-3.jpg
40x20sec @ ISO 12800, full spectrum Sony A7S camera, HEUIB-II filter, Celestron 8" f/10 EdgeHD scope, Sky-Watcher EQ6Pro, unguided

This is my first post on this site. So if I'm doing something wrong, please let me know... How do you get the thumbnails you use?

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Old 16-12-2014, 12:21 PM
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welcome Brian, and thanks for posting your images, they helped me decide to get the A7s!

To load up pictures here, when posting you go down to 'manage attachments'. But the file size needs to be around 1 meg or it won't load.

BIG developments today! Al Sam kindly reprocessed my image with Startools, revealing the huge amt of data hidden in the file. So here is an updated version, so much dust revealed! And this is with just 2 min subs...

Flickr version here
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Old 16-12-2014, 01:01 PM
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Looks great Simon. Images are limited to 200kb on IIS, although they
will load if a little larger. What sort of price range is this wonder camera in?
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Old 16-12-2014, 01:16 PM
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I paid 2600 including gst, modded, from JTW Astronomy, a pretty good price for a modded version
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mmm!!! That's $2303 more than I paid new for my 1100D with 18-55mm. It might have to wait.
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