The Hoon Lagoon

[astronobob]

:P

Managed to work on 8 subs out of a possible 15 due to lack of seeing conditions & Guide star Dropouts, using the Orion TOAG doesnt allow for many guide stars, tho realising should pann the rig about for a stronger star - Impatient fella !

Subs were 480secs, 1.1hrs through the 10" F/4.7 Newt on Neq6p and Starshoot guiding through PHD - the one with-out the graph. have recently installed PHD2 but wasnt connecting to camera ? work it out later ...
Camera was the QHY 10 OSC at -35, Gain 40 and OffSet 125

Image Pocessing notes ; Lacking :P Some weird stars happening, Also Coma particularly evident Lower right corner - hense - collimation out as well

Hope you enjoy the image all the same - not sure about the color for the majority here tho I dont mind it :P

Link to 5M Astro bin with all the ugly's : http://www.astrobin.com/full/106753/0/

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[cometcatcher]

Lots of detail there. Yeah it's pretty red, like when I shoot with my full spectrum camera. How does one balance that with an OSC CCD?

[astronobob]

Cheers Kevin,
Im really not sure how to ballance it in a tutorial manner, Im not even sure this is a near proper color ? tho during the processing , I find lifting (in this case) the 'Power Slider' in Red Channel carefully on its own at times, only once or twice throung many iterations of RGB levels - and also mucking with the curves - bit of everything rally ..

Cheers

[cometcatcher]

It's pretty much how my Lagoon turned out with my FS Nikon. I don't know if there is a "correct" colour after seeing all the different Lagoons on here.

[RickS]

Getting there, Bob! You need to get to 14 out of 15 :) Some nice detail.

[stevous67]

Hey Bob, good effort! It's hard doing the colour combination, and sometimes it takes me 8 or more attempts before I'm happy (but even then, the colours are still wrong or over cooked!). :screwy:

Cheers,

Steve

[astronobob]

Looks similar yeah, I often go on the web photos and surprised at the different renditions in particular the colors, yeas there are the mono variations which are real cool . Ive only used the One Shot Color a few time and hope to better learn processing them as time goes :thumbsup:

Appreciated Ric - have a handicap of the OAG atm, only used twice , so, working at it, yep :thumbsup:


Thanx Steve,
I dont Colour combine as such, tho with the one shot color I do ballance the RGB channels before spitting it out of DSSker - then I have the Auto saved Image and the ballanced one to muck with - doubt im keen to go 8 times tho, too much dedication for this duck - do a quick 'similar' process of the both - choose between the two and Go For It ;)
All the best ...

[Regulus]

What everyone else is saying: Good Detail and I suppose more useful subs would have upped that further.
Don't actually mind the red

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Great to see you back imaging Bob!!:):thumbsup:

Looks like you had loads of fun!:D
Really tests the patience out huh.

Detail there for sure, so much more difficult with a mono setup to process, than my old DSLR.

Cheers,

Justin.

[astronobob]

Cheers for that Trevor :thumbsup:
Need more care in executing this new system, specially the OAG, have only just figured getting close enough focus but need some finer tweeking for better light point for PHD - enjoying the challange, yep :thumbsup:



Great to be freezing the brass again Justin Lol. Have to be humbly positive also, all good fun mate :thumbsup:
Who knows, one could go down the mono track in the future tho agree, the processing sounds daunting :rolleyes:
Really diggin your Dslr work tho, turning out some of the deepest dslr images Ive seen :2thumbs:

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Great to be freezing the brass again Justin Lol. Have to be humbly positive also, all good fun mate :thumbsup:
Who knows, one could go down the mono track in the future tho agree, the processing sounds daunting :rolleyes:
Really diggin your Dslr work tho, turning out some of the deepest dslr images Ive seen :2thumbs:[/QUOTE]

I must read threads properly!:rolleyes:

Thought your camera was mono.

Cheers,

Justin.