Thors Helmet.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thor's Helmet with an hour and twelve minutes of data.
This is a repro, and the maximum I can extract from the data. The faint back ground nebulosity showing up well.
This really shows the value of using ISO 6400 with a cooler box under dark skies.
8” F/4 imaging newtonian / astrograph , baader type 3 coma corrector,. HEQ Pro 5 mount, orion mini guider....
Camera.
Unmodded Cannon 1100D plus cooler box. 36 subs at ISO 6400. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker .Processed in Photoshop Cs2..

Cheers,

Justin.

[rustigsmed]

Nice one Justin always nice to nab an o3 rich target on a dslr for a change!

[RickS]

Very nice, Justin!

[Cimitar]

That's awesome, thanks for sharing Justin! Well done on your capture and you've managed the noise exceptionally well :thumbsup: .

I'm keen now to give this a try with my DSLR using similar settings! :)

Cheers, Evan

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Rusty!

Yep the old 1100D does well on O3.



Thanks Rick!



Thanks Evan!

I reckon the most difficult part of Thor's helmet is taming the stars.
Look forward to your image.:thumbsup:

Cheers,

Justin.

[Camelopardalis]

Nice one Justin :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Really good. I had a go at that one the other night at long FL but the clouds rolled around 23:30 in and I got only 40min in Ha. As it's faint I've got bugger all. Well done. :thumbsup:

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Dunk!



Thanks Marc!

Is there much HA in it?

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35]

That's pretty good for just 1 hour 12 minutes. Nice one Justin!

Cheers

Steve

[omegacrux]

It is a good image

David

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Steve and David!

Cheers,

Justin.

[Cimitar]

Hi Justin, just realised you're using a cooler box with your DSLR. Is this something you built yourself?

Cheers, Evan

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi Evan,

No the cooler box was sold by Orion, I purchased it through BINTEL'
Don't think they are made any more.

Cheers,

Justin.

[astronobob]

Nicely Done Justin :thumbsup: always like your star color work too :thumbsup:
Im a little out-of-practice and/or bad memory, so forgive me if wrong :question: but is this been cropped at all, , I cant think if this target would have fill your FOV ?
Sorry for the question - Im not up on progs at the moment :rolleyes:

Actually I just googled and found it fitting in the field of a 16" f8 Hypergraph
So yeah, has been cropped which means your image is extremely good for your gear , being a crop and it is still very smooth and detailed - Very well done Justin :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Bob!

About the best I can do, don't think there's much to be gained with more data on this one apart from killing some more noise.
How's your observatory progressing?

Cheers,

Justin.

[Shiraz]

that's a really tidy result for such a faint target - as you say, the 1100D seems to respond well to O3.

[astronobob]

Getting there slowly Justin, showers on & off for a few days here at the moment - then hopefully get some underground power & cabling capers happening. looks to be vastly cloudy for the next week or so - but thats suits me, for now :scared3: _________ ;)

Rgrds

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Ray!



Glad to see it's coming along Bob!:thumbsup: