Who needs 3 hours?

[nebulosity.]

This M20 was taken in 3 minutes, 6x30 second subs at ISO 6400.

Canon 1100D, 8" F6 newt. Unguided.

I have recently been reprocessing some of my pictures in StarTools and was pretty happy with the result of this one.

Obviously could do with some more data but I think it turned out alright.

Cheers
Jo

[raymo]

Wow!! Stunning job Jo, but I think you could quieten the colour a touch.
[for my taste, anyway].
raymo

[cometcatcher]

I don't mind the colour. But how on Earth can you get that in 3 minutes? That's not even remotely possible from here. I need the 3 hours!

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Ray, how about this?

Cheers
jo

[nebulosity.]

Um, dunno..? Just happens I guess :shrug:

I'm not complaining anyway :D

Jo

[Astro_Bot]

Hmmmm. The intelligent responses. The expert craftsmanship. The interesting innovation. And now, brilliant photos in only 3 minutes (obviously taken from space)!

The evidence is there. Jo is ..... from the future. :atom: :P

[leon]

fantastic effort for such a shot time Jo, love it.

Leon

[Marios]

The 1100D strikes again, good job and so little noise wow!.

[kosh]

Excellent job Jo. Well done!

[rocco57au]

Excellent work Jo... You have inspired me to (try) replicate what you've done... stepped outside and too bad them clouds are a bit of a hindrance this time of the year :rolleyes:

Well done :thumbsup:

Rocky

[cohiba]

Great

[LightningNZ]

Pretty staggering image given the short exposure. How dark were your skies?
-Cam

[Mosc_007]

I have one of Trifid I did with my Modded 1100D. Only 30 sec subs but I didn't post it because it's not very good. Colours are wrong. No Blue from the reflection at all. I didn't think a Modded Camera would pick up the blue.

Charles

[nebulosity.]

Thanks every one for your nice comments :)

I'm not sure how dark I would rate the skies here, a fair bit of LP on the horizon but pretty nice overhead.

Unmodded cameras can give some nice colours, just look at Justin's images :thumbsup:

Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher]

The blue is still there in modified cameras, but the Ha can be overpowering. When I took M20 with my modded camera, I used a blue filter to subdue the Ha a bit and restore some balance.

[raymo]

I'm even more impressed; You changed the colour just for me.
Absolutely beautiful.
raymo

[graham.hobart]

That's fantastic!
it's like Hyperstar DSLR imaging with a big newt!! Remarkable really. Love it:eyepop:
Now do the Lagoon in five minutes forty seconds!!!!!
:cool::cool:

[cometcatcher]

Jo's next scope is F5. He will have so much speed he won't know what to do with it. ;)

[raymo]

He can collect the surplus in a bucket, and send it to me.
raymo

[rcheshire]

A very nice result Jo. A few more subs and we'ed be looking into unknown tracts of space...! :P What did you use for preprocessing?

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Graham! I actually did M8 last night, need to still work out a few coma corrector issues.

Jo

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Rowland. I use Nebulosity for my preprocessing, does a very nice job.

Cheers
Jo

[carlstronomy]

That's one fine image :thumbsup:
I have only targeted this one once and after 30 minutes had no where near as much blue with my 450D. Jealous :P

[rcheshire]

It's in the evaluation pipeline along with AstroArt.

[Marios]

Light Room does a great job for post processing cheaper then PS and easier.
I think Nebulosity is good all in one a cross of both BYE and LR but master of none.

[rcheshire]

Off topic, I know - I pretty much use StarTools for post processing these days and Pixinsight for preprocessing, but I need to learn these other tools as well.

[multiweb]

That is a beautiful shot indeed. Great field and vibrant colors. Well done. :thumbsup:

[Rod771]

Great result Jo! Well done :thumbsup:

[BruceG]

Awesome is your usual result Jo... this one gets 15 out of 10 due to only taking 3 minutes to get what most of us cant achieve in 30 !
Bruce.

[alistairsam]

Nice result Jo, noise is surprisingly low at ISO6400 and startools has done its usual at extracting all the data.
do you have a larger version in astrobin? the jpg compression has the stars a bit odd shaped.

Cheers
Alistair

[nebulosity.]

Thanks a lot for your comments :thumbsup:

Alistair, you can see a bigger version Here, (http://astrob.in/98118/0/) stars aren't real pretty due to secondary misalignment.

Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher]

A lot of detail in the larger photo.

Now I'm curious what you would get if you actually took 3 hours of this. You will have to do it when your F5 is finished. ;)

[dutch2]

Beautiful capture, well done.:thumbsup:

[Misplaced]

Well when i get my scope and have mastered that and my camera together i hope i can get an image as beautiful and clear. It's mesmorising and i can't stop looking at it........i should be working:eyepop:

Fantastic image!!:thumbsup: