First light with my Rokininon 135mm F2 lens that I just obtained from Howie, thanks!! Pic of setup attached.
Taken with the ASI071 on a CGEM mount (no guiding - I shouldn't need any at 7.3arcsec/pixel). 73x 1min subs on friday night
Corrected for flats and darks in PI. Processing was a bit of noise reduction, stretching, andmost of all exaggeration. Stars looked a bit weird. Don't think I have spacing correct on the lens/camera
You have got lots of detail because of the decent amount of integration,
but somehow[ in the processing I assume] you have lost a lot of the
wispiness [for want of a better word] that gives the LMC its beauty. I'm guessing that it is clipped.
I really don't want to hijack your thread in any way, but if you like I can post an image to illustrate what I mean.
raymo
Thanks for the comments Alex, Tony & Raymo. By all means Raymo post your pic, I'd appreciate seeing what you have - might help me reprocess.
I'm not sure what the whispiness is - maybe its a surrounding cloud-like feature? I could have clipped it, or maybe removed it with background extraction !!
Nice. I see what you mean. I'll have to have another go at processing it.
Edit: here's a second go at it. Looks like I flattened the surrounding cloud into the background and removed it.
This is a bit better but has much less surrounding detail than yours. I'll have another, another go later tonight - stinking hot here = I can't think.
Chris I have mentioned this before but you should try the doge and burn tools in photo shop...they delectively brighten or darken a selected region...I find use of yhese tools really powerful ..datkening some regions and brightening others in a step by step approach can sort out so many issues ..if noisey dsrkening seems to help ... anyways it takes a while to use it without going over the top.
I have just purchased a 50mm lens for the nikon and an invalometer so I can get long exposures without the lap top...as ot will be on the other moint with the zwo etc...going up tomorrow and hopefully get a weeks capturing in☺
Thanks Alex. I'll have to find an equivalent elsewhere as I don't have photoshop.
Good luck with the 50mm. Its been nice using this lens rather than a scope - quick set up, no guiding. And using on my EQ5, goto modded with onstep - so super light and easy.
