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h0ughy
20-08-2013, 11:26 PM
this is 24 x 150 seconds at f2 with a C11 and a hyperstar with Celestron nightscape one shot CCD. stacked in astrofx and processed in Pixinsight, resized iin Photoshop for here

this is the first try

Edit - added repro tweak

jjjnettie
20-08-2013, 11:52 PM
It's a great FOV Dave.

h0ughy
21-08-2013, 06:50 AM
thanks JJJ, i didnt realise there was so much there

Larryp
21-08-2013, 07:21 AM
Nice result, David!

h0ughy
21-08-2013, 07:28 AM
thanks laurie - have added a tweak version

RickS
21-08-2013, 10:06 AM
Well done, H0ughy! At an hour per object you could image a lot of objects in one Astrofest :)

h0ughy
21-08-2013, 10:13 AM
:rofl: now that would be good - lots of targets out there

BlackWidow
21-08-2013, 12:40 PM
Very nice! So many stars in a widefield.

h0ughy
21-08-2013, 06:36 PM
yeah too many - it takes the attention away from the neb;):question:

Sirius1066
22-08-2013, 07:44 AM
Very nice Houghy. There is so much there.

h0ughy
22-08-2013, 09:24 AM
thanks Earl

Lee
22-08-2013, 09:38 AM
Good stuff - 1 hour? Lots of signal there.....
It's upside-down though mate... :P

Garbz
22-08-2013, 07:11 PM
Nice wide field, not ugly at all.

One suggestion is green noise is quite high. Try an SCNR with green average as the option in pixinsight, it may clean the image even further.

brian nordstrom
22-08-2013, 07:25 PM
:shrug: Nutting ugly about these David , nice clean photos , especially at f2 .
Brian.

h0ughy
22-08-2013, 07:26 PM
just for you:P

h0ughy
22-08-2013, 07:27 PM
snot the same on every monitor ;) but will look into it and pick a goodone:D