M8 Lagoon in the morning.. my best?

[EzyStyles]

Hi Guys,

Here's M8 Lagoon right next to the crecent moon early in the morning. 10 x 5minutes at ISO800 with the C10 using baader UHC-S/MPCC and the unmodded 350D.

Hope you guys like it.


Cheers

[DobDobDob]

Very nice, I love the red colour :thumbsup:

[skeltz]

colour,s a lot better than some of your previous posts,as for the canons they are okay...but save up and get yourself a sbig or whatever,But they are the way to go... Iknow its money but hey i took out a mortage to buy my camera..the deal was too gooooood to knock back... anyway cheers EZY ROB

[sheeny]

Very nice Eric!

Al.

[iceman]

Lovley, very sharp!

[avandonk]

Yes Eazy stop wasting your time get a Hubble and all that goes with it and then the naysayers might be quiet. Personally I am going to get a stereo Hubble so all may be revealed in glorious 3D.
Meanwhile I will do the best I can with the equipment I possess as I am sure you will do this as well.
By the way the fourth star to the left of center is a little to bland for my liking!

Bert

[h0ughy]

great image and fantastic result, but you could have rotated the camera soas to try and get more of it in frame. I like ice cream in hell too!

[seeker372011]

top effort Eric..I am just surprised you are able to image at ISO 800 at all, let alone for 5 minutes ..you must have fairly decent skies?

[EzyStyles]

cheers guys thanks. I wish i can afford a SBIG that will be very nice :) i guess we all have our piorities in life and at this stage, i can't justify spending a few grand on a camera. SBIG will come abit later.. maybe a few years when the price drops alittle. want to trade equipment rob? :P
I like your way of thinking Bert. im trying to max out what i can do with the 350D unmodded before the modded 300D arrives next week or two.. that i can't wait ;) Was too scare to knock my focus when rotating the camera houghy. M8 wasn't my last object nor my first in the 8 hour night :P does kind of look like an icypole.

hey narayan, i wish i have a 1/2 decent sky here. there is a shopping centre packed with st lights about 10 minutes from my place. see pic top right in red is my place. the baader UHC-S filter helps quite alot to remove the skyglow around my area.

[RB]

Great image Eric, nice sharp detail.

[strongmanmike]

That's a fine image indeed Eric

I know what Rob is trying to say and I am sure he was only being friendly. It is clear that you are very keen and certainly have some real talent, you are fast becoming a very good imager, with a dedicated CCD in your hands and with your enthusiasm for imaging it is clear to me you could perform wonders.

That said, I look forward to seeing what the modified Canon does too so keep at it dude :thumbsup:

Mike

[FOOTPRINT]

Hi Eric,
Great picture, sharp focus, and the colour is very good, comsidering its an unmodded Camera, you must have done a lot of processing to bring out the nice red hue, Wonder if you have an F-6.3 MEADE/Celestron focal reducer corrector (should work fine with that scope) would get you a better FOV for thse larger objects, I see you are getting a modded 300D (same as im using) a very good choice the Ha will jump out and grab you when you start using it.
P.S. just noted you have an F-4.7 on the Scope, so disregard my comments re the FR
cheers........Jim

[tornado33]

Thats a very nice shot, showing all the outer detail but not burnt out in the centre.
Scott

[EzyStyles]

Cheers mike thanks. no offense taken at all with Robs comment. will try to keep at it but it doesnt look like the weather is gonna be any good down here :scared:
Thanks Andrew,Jim and scott. yes, the modded camera esp with the red channel. It will help me not to process it 'too' much in that field :P

[2020BC]

Nailed it, Eric. Well done.

[Ric]

Top stuff Eric, That one is a beauty, well done.

Cheers

[EzyStyles]

thanks Bil and Ric. I just had another go at different reprocessing methods. Here's the final final result of M8. Larger version can be found on my website :)

[DobDobDob]

Hey Eric, I took 5 minutes and studied every aspect of both images side by side and IMHO (please don't flame me), I believe that the first one is better than your second one.

I believe the second one has blended a lot of the fine detail and tends to blur it, where as the original is much sharper.

Once again, please read my disclaimer, it is my opinion only and if others disagree, good luck to them. :thumbsup:

[EzyStyles]

not at all Ron. :) feel free to diss it in anyway you can find. I can only learn from other opinions. i just thought the original one colours were not balanced properly. The first one i think is abit over processed so i turn down the curves/levels abit which also heaps with the central details of M8.

[glenc]

Wow!

[bluescope]

It's a glorious image Eric. Equipment can almost always be improved upon ( SBig - Severely Big $'s ) but the dedication and patience required to make excellent images can achieve great results. I've seen many, many images made with expensive gear that are a load of expensive crap IMOH.

WELL DONE AGAIN ! :thumbsup:

Ofcourse if I had an unlimited supply of cash I would have it all .... perched on top of a mountain in Hawaii or Chile, heh heh heh !;)

[Mr. Subatomic]

Magnificent.

Question: I've never taken up astrophotography, but did you produce this image by stacking those 10 exposures in specialized software? If so, is this 'stacking' one of the fundamentals of astrophotography? Also, what is the advantage of stacking images? Does it produce more detail?

Thanks.

An again, a really beautiful shot you've got there.

[Carl]

Hi Eric
Excellent shot. You took a series of exposures and then stacked and processed. Mind telling me how you stacked? Any dark, flat and bias frames? and i presume you finished it off in photoshop.
I'm just starting out with an unmodified Canon 350 using deepsky stacker and photoshop CS

REgards
Carl

[Dr Nick]

I like the 1st one better, the second one looks a bit dark and gloomy.

They are both fantastic though! ;)