seeker372011
05-06-2006, 11:07 PM
Slightly embarrasing to post this in this forum where most images of such a high quality, but here it is anyway-an image from the other end of the equipment spectrum
ETX 70, Orion Starshoot, homemade wedge on a rickety Go Lo folding table. no guiding and polar aligned by eyeballing...
Nonetheless, I think this is the best ever image I have managed with an ETX 70..and I have been imaging with this scope for a fair while now.
The ETX was polar aligned and I stacked the best 18 out of 30 images-each 30 seconds long- for the colour version.
For the grey scale (binned 2 x2) I stacked 14 thirty second long images
The camera was an Orion Starshoot, with an IR and an UV filter. Images were acquired last night with plenty of bright first quarter moon about
There are still some halos around the really bright stars but hey this an ETX 70-for those who dont know it, its a short tube achromat. Is there some way to process these out?
Comments and suggestions welcome.
ETX 70, Orion Starshoot, homemade wedge on a rickety Go Lo folding table. no guiding and polar aligned by eyeballing...
Nonetheless, I think this is the best ever image I have managed with an ETX 70..and I have been imaging with this scope for a fair while now.
The ETX was polar aligned and I stacked the best 18 out of 30 images-each 30 seconds long- for the colour version.
For the grey scale (binned 2 x2) I stacked 14 thirty second long images
The camera was an Orion Starshoot, with an IR and an UV filter. Images were acquired last night with plenty of bright first quarter moon about
There are still some halos around the really bright stars but hey this an ETX 70-for those who dont know it, its a short tube achromat. Is there some way to process these out?
Comments and suggestions welcome.