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Originally Posted by Startrek
Absolutely brilliant image ( A Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece)
How do you do it ? No keep your secrets !
Cheers
Martin
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Thank you Martin.
Interestingly enough next Tuesday I am having a piece of my right ear removed...ear marked for good things I hope..the surgeon said he could do a skin graft but with all my hair no one will notice if he just cuts out a section..he is right and anywyas who is going to be looking at my ears..and I can boast I was a cage fighter..well I sortta was as a kid but never stuffed my ears...I could have done it myself with one of those things we clip the cows ears with but I thought heck you botched your teeth filling so this time get someone who can see it better and who you can sue if you dont like the job.
How do I do it.
Well I grit my teeth and ignore the pain in my legs, set up and use what happens to be working that night...scope wise☺ .
..So after getting some sort of polar alignment I get the camera to take exposures short enough to produce minimal star trails that can be removed in proceeding...set it all running lay down to reduce the pain...after the pain eases I figure its time to change the filter and do a refocus...I lay down and get up until dawn or the clouds roll in...set it stacking and sleep setting the alarm to go off when DSS says it will be finished...wake up stack the rest..take the tesults to star tools and process each group..take all processed photos to photoshop raw ( very very handy) and give them all a fiddle...take result to layers and put one on top of the other use errasor to let colour thru or not select the best fifty or so and merge them until I find something that I am happy with and take that image and merge it with the lumance that I have combinned with the HA turn that to black and white and layer in various colours until dinner time...adjust the final result in gimp downsize it and post it so I can have dinner and read comments before I go out again.
My only problem is falling over in the dark but years of drinking to excess sees me well equipped to manage multiple falls.
Although it does take grit not to grab the scope on the way down and not put PA out...and I stay away from the car so as not to damage the paint job if I fall backwards and my head strikes any part suseptable to damage.
Alex