Carina

[E_ri_k]

Hey guys, I haven't had much time for this hobby over the busy season, hence why I haven't been on the forum a lot lately, but I have found more time over the past couple of weeks, which is a great feeling!

I received my stepper motor kit, and managed to learn SGP. I must say, the autofocus routing is amazing. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to work as well as it did. I noticed the TOA-150 would drop out of focus quite quickly, which made it impossible to head inside whilst imaging. With the autofocus it stayed in focus the whole night:eyecup:

Rounds stars all the way in the corners too with the 67 Flattener, and my piece of cut drain pipe as a spacer!

I have imaged this one before, but I wanted to test everything on a bright easy target.

It's 5.5 hours at 600 seconds each with the QHY10

I know in my last image i burned out the stars when processing, I tried not to this time, still not good at using the star mask.....think they turned out ok though?



http://www.astrobin.com/full/239224/0/

[Rick Parrott]

Stunning! Well done!

[multiweb]

Super scope and supeb results. Outstanding colors and details. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[E_ri_k]

Thanks Rick.



Thanks Marc :)

[Regulus]

A really lovely set of photos Erik. It must have been satisfying to finally get the time.
Well done.

Trevor

[strongmanmike]

Wow...nice :thumbsup: Perhaps juuust a touch brownish looking but rather Davies-esque :D

Mike

[Geoff45]

Nice wide field with crisp detail. Very nice Erik. To me the colours are a bit muted, but then I'm one of those people that always likes to crank up the saturation.

[E_ri_k]

Thanks Trevor, yes it was amazing haha.



Cheers Mike, yes, haha you're right, a tad brown, how's the edited version for you:P Tried to pull as much brown out of the background as I could....



Thanks Geoff, yeah now when I look at it I know what you mean, boosted the saturation, and pulled the brown out of the background. Still maybe a little to vibrant for me, but I'm undecided.

[gregbradley]

Nice images Erik. I like the drainpipe spacer. Bit of bush engineering that we sometimes have to do!

Greg.

[RickS]

Nice detail, Erik! Vibrant is good ;)

[Ru1s]

Fantastic images Erik!

Glad to hear your getting some use out of that scope now :)

what program are you using to stack / process ?

[E_ri_k]

Thanks Greg, yes, much cheaper option haha. I'll just paint it black and no one will ever know :P

Thanks Rick, I know you like vibrant :P


Cheers, I'm using PixInsight for stacking and processing.

[Camelopardalis]

Beautiful Erik :thumbsup: love the details and the vibrancy :D

[marc4darkskies]

Looking pretty good Erik!! :thumbsup: I'm with Rick as far as vibrancy goes. Even your repro is too samon coloured IMO - so bring on the red!!

[E_ri_k]

Thanks:thumbsup:


Thanks Marc :) This repro is for you then:P Although now when I look back at the original, it is very pale... I think I ruined the star colours though
Erik