I've been setting things up as far as my astrophotography goes and playing with some short exposures as tests...max I've done previously to this is 30 mins on Tuc 47
Moon is up so I had to pick something fairly bright last night for my first real shot at some stacking in DSS....that is until I stuffed up the darks file and ended up with a single dark frame rather than the 80 I programmed in! (it was late, I pressed 'shoot' in APT rather than "start"
Attached is 120 x 60 second exposures at ISO 400
Not bad for a first attempt.....or am I kidding myself.
Would love advice on how to improve by anyone willing to chime in!
Jon,
This is a great image of a favourite visual target of mine.
Looks the goods, well resolved with nice colour, no doubt you will be chuffed with this and in the end are we ever satisfied with our effort? Always areas of improvement and things to learn, let the fun begin.
Well done!
Very good first attempt, but to my octogenarian's eyes something didn't look quite right. If you mag your screen to 300% or more, you will see that the
stars are elongated. I would suggest 30 secs @ ISO 800 if you want to
have another go.
raymo
