berts lens - my mount, scotts camera, dual setup -the widefield

[h0ughy]

well late last night early this morning Scott snd I set out to capture a few happy snaps. I was building a few PC's late and invited Scott to come over and image with Berts 300mm lens. As it turned out the sky was not great, lots of high cloud and light pollution. But we did manage to get this, and a few other shots (badly processed by me, just wait for scott to load up the better versions!)

note i havent edited these much either

[Lester]

Houghy, Scott,

very nice images. Love the veil effect of the red nebulosity around the Horse Head= very deep images indeed.

Can't wait for such lenses to drop in price to around $1000. Yeah I know I am dreaming.

[tornado33]

Howdy all
heers my processing efforts, with Iris, and masking in Photoshop for both M42 images.
Was luxury, heated antidew system on the lens even on the guiding eyepieces, thanks Houghy :)
Its the first time ive got a good go at the Pliades, as the house is in the way at my place.
Scott

[Striker]

Good to see you guys getting together.

Processing takes time to learn and it's also personal preference.

Scott these images are bit grainy.....is this due from all the masking processing...still nice to look at though.

I am really going to work on the horsehead this year...was not happy with the results from last effort.

[h0ughy]

Tony did you know I added auto guideing to the system - Scott!:rofl: :P :D

how the hell did you get that out of those images scott, i coud barely make out the blue?:shrug: :help:

[beren]

Wow fellas great work....love those widefield images of Orion, roll on summer:)

[h0ughy]

we hope to get better ones later!:lol: ;)

[tornado33]

Howdy
If the sky was darker Id not have needed to stretch the levels as much, I think thats why the images are a bit grainy. I might have a play with noiseware later on to see if it can smooth it out a bit.
Did a lot of fiddling to coax the detail out. Iris has this "white" function where you draw a small rectangle over the sky background and it automatically brings it to a neutral colour balance, its very handy for modded DSLR's
I can only imagine what we would have got had we been at Kulnura instead :)
Scott

[EzyStyles]

great team work guys well done. ! very interesting to see the differences in processing skills.

[iceman]

Nice teamwork guys! Lovely shots.

[h0ughy]

thats right, i have none!:P :D :rofl: BTW I didnt fully process it out I just wanted to post something quickly, you will see that I didnt even crop any of my images:poke:

[h0ughy]

I can see some more shots coming soon too;)

[Striker]

Keep them coming houghy.

We want to see atleast 1 image a week from you.

Only excuse we will consider is if your too busy building your observatory.

[avandonk]

Somehow I was involved and I was not even there. Now you be good hOughy and give Scott one of your autoguided mounts to use. Great to see a pooling of resources and expertise. The results speak for themselves.

Bert

[h0ughy]

Well mate your a legend:thumbsup: , and legends live everywhere:D , so thats why you were mentioned;) (plus the fact it was your lens on Scotts and my camera. ;)

[Lee]

Count the DSO's! Nice shots.... beautiful widefield - really gives it perspective..... :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

Umm will try, but how about you send down that camera of yours:D , you wont be needing it for a while while it rains up there:lol: :help: . I am sure with that and Bert's lens, my mount and scott autoguiding;) :P and a dark site life the universe and everything will be justified:thumbsup:

[RB]

Did you hear that Houghy......!!!!!!!!!
There's no excuse mate, well except the one you had....:lol:
This week is on again.....:whistle:

Well done guys, love these shots especially M45 and the 3rd one with the great framing of the surrounding area.

Excellent.

[tornado33]

Heres the LMC we took :)
Scott

[RB]

Beautiful Scott, is that with the 300mm too?

[h0ughy]

yep

[h0ughy]

will there be power available? theNAS are having a public display saturday morning for a school, maybe if I talk very nicely to the wife I could go....and scott come too.....

[RB]

Power is available, bring an extension cord or two.