This is the best I could do wide field with the weather at Snake Valley. Missed out on the last night of the camp, which was clear by all accounts.
Look closely and you will immediately notice a of lack data. 60 mins 180 second dithered, unguided subs @ iso800 and 0 Celsius with my cooled 450D. The usual compliment of bias dark and flats.
The spikes here and there are from a wire across the observing field. Thought I was low enough to miss it...
Might try this one without darks and see if that improves the noise - have a feeling darks may be contributing in this case...
Preprocessing in PixInsight. Post processing in StarTools.
Looks great Rowland. What lens/focal length was it shot at? Nice colours and a soft glow to the bright stars, I'd be pleased with that result. A dark sky site makes a big difference.
Wow! That's one great shot you have there you still have some detail in the nebula from such a wide field of view and your stars are well saturated without blowing out. Nice work.
Lovely detail...wide fields are really the way to bring out the majesty of the Cosmos.
What was your camera mounted on? Is it a fully modified DSLR...as in the IR filter tonsillectomy?
Lovely detail...wide fields are really the way to bring out the majesty of the Cosmos.
What was your camera mounted on? Is it a fully modified DSLR...as in the IR filter tonsillectomy?
Thanks Sam. The mount is a Takahashi EM-200B. IR modified and cooled. Adenoids and all.
Thanks Bo and LostInSp_ce. Getting the balance right is a challenge with limited data.
Great shot! Getting the balance right is an understatement. I've been working on optimizing my processing workflow to make better use of my data and revisiting some of my hardware settings too. Back and forth, its like trying to build a tower of single marbles on the back of a cat during a laser pointer exhibition.
I'm constantly amazed just how much can be done with limited data and the constant learning is great.