First post

[Davey]

Hi Everyone,
The name is Dave Moulton I have been invited to the forum by a fellow member Amanda, so just saying hi from the Uk.

I live in North Wales and am passionate about Astrophotography. I hope to pick up some top tips from you guys to improve my images.

If I can figure it out I will add an image taken from home of the witches broom in Cygnus
http:///www.flickr.com/photos/56475849@N07/8125541742/in/photostream
Cheers,

Dave

[seeker372011]

Welcome to IIS, Dave and what a cracker of an image to announce yourself!

Narayan

[acropolite]

Welcome to IIS Dave, beautiful image. Feel free to post some pics of your earthly surrounds as well, it's always nice to see other parts of the world.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Welcome Dave!!

What gob smacking rendition of the witches broom.:jawdrop:

I think we may have to learn some tricks from you.

Cheers,

Justin.

[allan gould]

Excellent narrow band images, Dave - thanks for posting

[Davey]

Cheers guys, very kind of you.
Always something to learn with this astrophotography hobby, always willing to listen to any tips or tricks to improve BTW so feel free to comment

Looking for a Repeatable workflow as very time I visit the same data the pics turn out different. Retaining some star colour in narrowband images would be nice too if anyone has any tips

Cheers

Dave

[DavidU]

Welcome Dave. Great image there:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

A wonderful image. Very electric. What filters did you use for this?

Retaining star colours in narrowband images is usually done by an RGB set that is added to the narrowband image using layers and masking the stars out of the narrowband and lighten mode on the rgb so the rgb stars show up and the narrowband ones are masked out. Narrowband stars are often smaller than RGB stars so this works pretty well.

I did this here:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/137164599

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/134304721

How to do a mask for the stars is covered in Louie Atalas free tutorials. Try googling his name.

Greg.

[Davey]

Cheers for the info Greg.

The camera I currently have is a QSI583 the built in filter wheel has five slots so not enough room for RGB as well as narrowband.
Just can't bring myself to swap filters during an imaging run.
I may have to though I guess .
Btw filters used were Astrodon 5nm
I will go take a look at your pics.
Cheers thanks again,

Dave

[Davey]

Stunning work Greg as good as I have seen anywhere, you have a supreme talent, fantastic. Love them

[blink138]

fantastic image taff!
pat

[Davey]

Cheers Pat, Diolch un fawr iawn

[naskies]

Very nice work, Dave! Look forward to seeing more of it soon.

[Geoff45]

Welcome Dave. Terrific image, although there do seem to be some compression artifacts.
Geoff

[Davey]

I'm sure you are right. the image is only 110k ish so heavily compressed as you say.
cheers.

Dave

[niko]

Welcome Dave

Beautiful image!

Cymru am byth! (My family hails from Porthmadog, though I was born here)

Niko

[ThinBlueLine]

Sublime shot here Dave - so pleased you joined and nice to see you here on IIS, just joined too myself. :D

Am not experienced enough to any comments/suggestions on a technical basis - just know that it's one darn good shot.! ;)

Hope to see more of these beauties in the forums..

Amanda.

[jjjnettie]

Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off the ground. :jawdrop:

Welcome to IIS David. :)

[multiweb]

That's a really great shot. Gorgeous colors. Only wish it was higher in the sky for us too. :thumbsup:

[Davey]

Cheers Niko thanks for the welcome.

[Ric]

Hi Dave and welcome to IIS.

That is a lovely image to open your account.

I'm looking forward to seeing more.

[Davey]

Jeanette, Many thanks for the welcome and comments, I'm a great fan of your work

Clear Skies

Dave

[Davey]

Amanda, thanks for the comments glad you like it. It's bold, and not to everyone's taste but you were kind enough to give it the thumbs up.

As for technical advice don't worry we are all learning in this game.

May post a couple more tonight.

Dave :)

[Ross G]

Great looking phot Dave.

Welcome to IIS.

Ross.

[CJ]

Stunning image!

[Draco]

Welcome Dave. Excellent pic ;)