An extremely oldie butting in on the newbies' party
Nothing else to do, so reprocessed an old image.
8" f/5 Newt, Canon 1100D, 30x 45 secs, ISO 1600
noise reduction enabled, no separate darks, flats, or biases, unguided.
All stacking and processing[such as it was] done in DSS.
raymo
That's very well done Raymo. It definitely has that distinctive DSS colour to it especially, the way it handles tone and saturation. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks S, L, P, and X.
I was saying that I am old, and I imagine that it could be improved in
Startools or any other relevant software you care to name. I have always stuck to DSS, its all I can get my head around. After 58yrs of film AP it was
always going to be very difficult for me to convert to digital, especially as
I am almost computer illiterate. I still don't know how to attach an image to an email.
If the older hands have no objection I might repost some images that I posted
some yrs ago that the new hands won't have seen.
raymo
Go for it Raymo.
I always enjoy your work and I am sure other are constantly surprised that you produce your great results with only Deep Sky Stacked.
Care to tell us what you did before Deep Sky Stacked.. I remember the early days shocking mount, poor polar align and sitting there with illuminated cross hairs trying to keep that star on the line...these new folk probably don't know..do you have any epic long exposures manual guide that you can show us.
I manually guided a one hour twenty minute wide field once...it's the only old work I have..lost the lot years ago.
Alex
Very cool Raymo. A lot of detail in there even at that low res sample.
I love the fact these are unguided short shots stacked straight out of camera. Love to see more .
I save the images as jpg with 1 mb limit and then let the ice in space attachment management cut them down. Seems to give better result.
O.K. Alex and Ray, I'll post some of my images. Should I continue this thread or put each pic into its own thread? I'll continue this thread if nobody has a
suggestion.
Alex, we covered the topic of my film days here several years ago, and to cut
a long story short, we were burgled years ago. All they took was a suitcase
with over 6,000 b/w and colour prints and slides, and about 8,000 negs. plus
the only photo my wife had of her long gone mother. In short, a catastrophe.
raymo
The great thing about a failing memory is you don't worry about hearing the same story repeated.
New threads in my view.
Thanks for all your posts.
Alex
Hi JP. They are not in any particular order, this was taken about 10yrs ago, and is one of my earlier digital efforts, but certainly not my first. My first
astro photo was in 1958. For some unknown reason when I occasionally
did a bit of eyepiece projection I never recorded the eyepiece f/l. or whether
I used a Barlow as well. The shot of NGC 3918 which will appear in this series
was taken with an EP plus two Barlows, I was very surprised to get any worthwhile result from that combination of glass.
raymo
P.S. I've never owned any premium eyepieces, so whatever it was it didn't cost more than about $120, and very probably less than $100.
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No, I wasn't particularly interested in imaging supernovae, but I did image
Halley when it was at its best and looked very like Omega Centauri. I have
a postcard sized print of it somewhere in the cupboard which shows both of them; one of the very few pre digital images of mine that escaped the burglar's clutches.
raymo
Which eyepiece were you using?
