Orion's swinging cod

[Camelopardalis]

Well folks, while this is the first time capturing Orion's fish mouth for me, I don't expect it will be the last this season :lol:

Ed and I braved the moody sky at Mt Blackheath last night and after some experimentation managed to eek a few 1 minute subs out of the rig before the Sun came up :help:

Canon 1100D unmodded attached to C8 Edge HD + 0.7x reducer unguided on an EQ6.

This is a combination of 5 subs at ISO100, 8 subs at ISO 400 and 3 subs at ISO1600...25 were taken in all but I had to chuck the rest because of star trails :sadeyes: I need to sort my guiding out! Also a first for me, it features not only lights, darks and biases, but also flats collected at source :D

The outer layer in particular is quite noisy, coming from only 3 subs and seeing an aggressive curve ;) so I'll look forward to getting some more subs to improve this later. I could probably use a little wider field but I don't have an in-between scope just yet.

This is my first concoction with funky layers, and as always, suggestions as to how to handle them or anything else welcomed! Maybe I haven't stretched the ISO400 layer enough :confused2:

[cometcatcher]

It looks to be in reasonable proportion, other than the core being a bit desaturated.

I'm shooting M42 in dribs and drabs at the moment. Might have something to show for it in 6 months time...

[PeterEde]

I like
enticing. Hmmm to awaken at 4am again for Orion or wait till summer months when I can get it at a reasonable hour?

[SimmoW]

I like! Can't wait to image her soon. How long were your subs? maybe try a few at 10 secs just for the core?

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks chaps! I look forward to getting more subs sometime, hopefully this rain will eventually let us be...



OK thanks - I'll take a look at the core - it's mostly white in my subs though :confused2:



:lol: well I'd travelled for 2 hours out of the city and the clouds just teased us until about midnight, so I wasn't giving up easily :D had a beautiful sunrise too.



The subs were 1 minute long. Will definitely try much shorter subs next time, and lots of them too. The total was 16 minutes of lights, and obviously I need more especially around the fainter outer regions, but I was pretty floored when I saw the first ISO1600 sub on the camera screen :eyepop:

[cometcatcher]

Mmm. Shouldn't be.

[killswitch]

Looks amazing Dunk! Well worth the early morning wait.

Ill definitely give it a go with my C8 next time we head up.

[raymo]

Nice job Dunk; strange about the white subs though, with an unmodded
camera and short 10-20 sec subs, the core should be a bright green/blue
if looked at through the viewfinder, as in the attached sub.
15 secs @ ISO400. Straight from the camera.
raymo

[Rex]

Nice one Dunk. More data will help with that noise, but still a good effort mate.

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks chaps! Ed, worth a go, although need more time :lol:

Definitely not purple, and only a touch of green if I dial the saturation all the way up :confused2:

[Camelopardalis]

OK, so I've gone back to look at the raw files...looks like it either dissipated in the stacking or I've lost it when stretching out the reds, as there's a green hue in the core at each ISO :help:

[raymo]

Interesting that at the same ISO, and with the same model camera, your image shows a paler green. Mine is a JPEG; if yours is CR2, maybe there
is some difference in the outut of the two file types.
raymo

[Camelopardalis]

Yeah I have to wonder what processing the camera is doing to get the jpeg...my personal preference is to use raws instead and then at least I have more control over the data going forwards...constantly learning and maybe someday when I'm have a little competency I might go back and revisit some old data! But most of it is crap tbh as I'm also trying to learn my aligning and setup techniques too :D

[raymo]

My old brain is tired of converting files so that various software can use
them. I'm quite happy to accept that raw is better, but I just take the easy route, just the same as I don't use separate darks, I'm happy to let the camera do it's thing by enabling the two noise reduction features.
TIFF, FITS, Raw, JPEG, Mov, AVI, GIF, Cr2, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, NOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Someone here got peeed off a while back
because I kept on about my lack of comp literacy. I truly cannot send
a text message, don't have a mobile. Let an old bloke say his bit,and
I promise to not do it again. There, I feel much better now.
raymo :D:D

P.S. You all may not have to put up with me for much longer anyway. If I don't get a useable night
soon, I might end up throwing my scope at the wall.[ That's if I could lift it.]

[Camelopardalis]

:lol: proof is in the pudding raymo, keep the pics coming is what I say :thumbsup:

[raymo]

I'll do my best.
raymo