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Finally stuck my 700d on a tripod and snapped this off.

about 50 frames at 30 seconds
iso 1600
f3.5
18mm

Stacked in dss with some levels and curves in gimp. First time I've used gimp, I like it.

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Old 15-11-2020, 09:37 PM
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Good effort Mark, but you needed to tone down the highlights so that 47Tuc
starts to look like the glob that it is rather than a washed out star, and also The Tarantula Neb will identify itself by showing some colour.
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Old 15-11-2020, 10:07 PM
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Well done Mark

Your out there giving it a go!
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Old 16-11-2020, 07:08 AM
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Thanks

Definately need to look up some youtube vids on post processing, gimp tutorials.

How does everyone reduce the size of their pics to 200kb so they can be uploaded here? My original jpeg was 2.5mb.

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Old 16-11-2020, 07:25 AM
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Morning Mark,


Most people will probably do it differently but as you already have Gimp it makes it easy.


Heres what i do. shrink down the image to the physical resolution that i would like by going Image > Scale Image.


After that i go File > Export and export the file a as a JPG. When i export the file it will give me a quality slider. Its a bit of trial and error but I generally set it to around 70-90% until i get the file of the size IIS requires.



I believe that IIS will reduce the image somewhat and i heard people mention you can upload a file that is 1.2mb in size and it will reduce it automatically but i haven't tried that.


You can also sign up and upload the image to Astrobin for high quality uploads + annotations and equipment information. You can get 10 free images with their sign up then paid after that.
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Old 16-11-2020, 08:45 AM
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Two clouds in the one photo - nice image Mark. Thanks JohnW.
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Old 16-11-2020, 10:13 AM
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Nice work..in Gimp you have Dodge and Burn tools..the Burn tool run over T 47 may help ..it's worth a try.
Anyways fantastic effort.
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Old 16-11-2020, 11:43 AM
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You can post JPEGs up to approx 2Mp and IIS will reduce them automatically.
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