Had a proper go at the Horsehead Tuesday night after my weekend trials.
There's some pretty horrible horizontal banding starting to happen towards the bottom of the image, so I haven't pushed it as much as it perhaps could have been. But other than I'm pretty happy with it, even manage to flatten the field a bit too.
I'm about to go setup for tonight but I'm trying to figure out if I should spend another hour on it to see how much more it can be improved (particularly the fainter stuff around the horsehead) or if I should give another target a go.
Great job Bret; I think it would be good to get at least another hour
before moving on to another target; you have the makings of a fine image there.
raymo
Great shot Bret Plenty of detail in there not bad for 30 sec subs.
Nice FOV you managed to get all the good bits in.
Thanks Michael.
Doing 1 minute subs tonight as the LP doesn't seem quite as bad tonight and the latest synscan update has really helped with tracking quite a bit it seems.
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Originally Posted by raymo
Great job Bret; I think it would be good to get at least another hour
before moving on to another target; you have the makings of a fine image there.
raymo
Cheers Raymo.
Hopefully get close to 2 hours done tonight, see what happens.
Very nice Bret, good depth to the image considering only 30 secs.
Thanks guys!
Got another 2 hours of data last night, 1 minute subs this time though.
This image is all 3 hours combined (1 hour x 30sec & 2 hours x 60sec).
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, but I definitely want to give it ago at a dark site now.
Thanks guys!
Got another 2 hours of data last night, 1 minute subs this time though.
This image is all 3 hours combined (1 hour x 30sec & 2 hours x 60sec).
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, but I definitely want to give it ago at a dark site now.
Can I ask what sort of flattner / corrector are you using for this scope?
Thanks Marios.
I haven't got a flattener/corrector as yet, but it's on my to buy list. The image was flattened during processing using Startools and cropped accordingly.
Reduces the field of view a bit but round stars look a lot nicer.
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Originally Posted by Nikolas
That's a great effort
Cheers Nik!
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Superb! Even better.
Thanks Marc!
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Wow, getting so much more defined. I'm hoping to nab this target tomorrow at Heathcote, but our weather is soooo unpredictable right now.
I imaged it last night in the burbs, but due to 'problems' I only managed 4 by 2 mins, not worth posting. But it was so exciting to see the flame for the first time!
Wow, getting so much more defined. I'm hoping to nab this target tomorrow at Heathcote, but our weather is soooo unpredictable right now.
I imaged it last night in the burbs, but due to 'problems' I only managed 4 by 2 mins, not worth posting. But it was so exciting to see the flame for the first time!
Thanks Simon.
It certainly is an awesome feeling spying it for the first time.
Hopefully you get some decent weather soon!
Another hour will halve the noise for the same signal. The horse does need a lot of time. The more the merrier.
