Double trouble

[Camelopardalis]

I know it's not a great image, but I have no shame :lol: I wanted to put this out there and keen on hints and tips on my processing...

WO Zenithstar 71mm + 0.8x reducer/flattener (incorrectly spaced!) on EQ6
Canon 1100D 40x 30s ISO1600
Stacked in DSS and then the worst cropped, a stiff curve applied to bring out the features
Sydney suburbs :D

Please ignore the stretched stars out towards the edges, my spacing wasn't quite right as my previous posts of Eta Carina (without the spacer!) didn't have this distortion :help:

Thanks!

[madwayne]

That'd be triple trouble Dunk :), not that Messier objects are trouble. M21 is there just under M20.

Lovely field of view, about the same as my FSQ.

Wayne

[Camelopardalis]

Well spotted, thanks Wayne :thumbsup:

The FOV is wider still...I've already cropped it by about 30% :D the stars out that far were looking pretty horrid. I won't be using that spacer again :sadeyes: I'd swap it all for an FSQ :D

[raymo]

Don't even think about shame;it's pretty.
raymo

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks raymo, I just know the stars are not round and pretty heading towards the edges...this processing stuff is a language I can't translate!

[LightningNZ]

Well, processing can't really make them round - you're best to sort that with the correct spacing between the rear lens of the corrector and the camera sensor.

It's still a lovely image.
-Cam

[blink138]

nowt wrong with that dunk!
pat

[Camelopardalis]

Cheers, guys, looking forward to a more Moon-less sky again :D