No Laughing you lot....

[Shawn]

After subtracting my flats from my bias,s my darks from my flats, combining that and adding it to my lights, :D I ended up with this. what is it, Its in Leo...
I know that much...

Still learning...

Somebody once told me this was easy, "Ive taken them off my xmas list"...

:lol:

Shawn

[DobDobDob]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: come on, show us the real one :P

[Shawn]

Ron, Come on , I honestly dont know what it is, I was hoping somebody was going to say its an internal reflection, ... Its an under exposed/ mutilated collection of images...:D

I goofed got all my proccesing procedures arse about face. This learning is fun though, this system could reveal results , if only I knew how to drive it...


:lol:

[DobDobDob]

Mate you are a million years ahead of me, I just wanted to make you feel lousy just before Easter :P

Seriously, the guru's on this list will sort you out as soon as they get home from work, if they can't help you no one can :thumbsup:

[Shawn]

I need a live in Guru, for about a year I think Ron, i built this thing installed all this stuff, It all works how its supposed to , but the operator is cranially challenged...

The only reason I know this is Leo because by fluke the scope was pionting at it, I was playing with the Guide scope, and fired off the wrong camera, thought Ill take a few more of that thingo, combined them , got my darks and biases confused, had real trouble with the Raws, software speaking. Was going to keep taking images but the clouds came over, and the moon was giving me the willies...So I called it a nite...I had not set the scope up so I had no idea where is was pionting , except for leo...You gotta laugh...

:lol:.

[DobDobDob]

Mate, as long as you're having fun :whistle:

I'm not starting my astrophotography until 2008, because I [a] need to improve my equipment and [b] learn the sky better.

[Shawn]

Run Leap hurdle and skydive, all before you crawl...:D

[mill]

Whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D :lol: ;) Looks like you have a internal galaxy in your equipment.
I am jealous, give it to me pls.
All joking aside , it does look like an galaxy.
However, i have had that kind of picture too in registax and that happened when i substracted a darkframe.
So if you are using registax then something like this could happen.
Or it is a nice way of registax to tell you that you have done something wrong.
? darks from my flats ? Aren't you supposed to substract the darks and the flats from the image files?
I just begun imaging but that is the way i have been told to do it.

[Shawn]

Visually I couldnt see it, but it does look like a galaxy with a satelite. i didnt use registax, all the images were combined in Maxim, there are cloud lanes in it, I think. It probably looks completely different taken by someone that knows what they are doing...:lol:

[glenc]

You have captured NGC 4631 in CVn. (http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4631.jpg)
http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4631.jpg

[mill]

Aha so that is it.
See there is alway's someone smarter than us :)

[DobDobDob]

I'm with Glen, I reckon he has named it correctly :thumbsup:

[Shawn]

Taken on the same image scale as this one...

[Shawn]

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou, Now I know what its supposed to look like....:D

[Shawn]

Well Its not too bad then I guess, It looks similar...:D


S

[DobDobDob]

Shoot it again tonight, don't quit now :P

[mill]

You know you want it :)

[Shawn]

Clouds still here Ron, and besides , how do find something twice by accident,,My pionting is still off, I dont know why....:(

S

[Shawn]

Hey Mill thanks too matey, but didnt the thread read, "dont laugh you lot"

;)

[DobDobDob]

Fumble around in the dark and make exactly the same mistakes again, you could get lucky, lightening strikes in the same place many times you know :whistle:

[Phil]

I like it you have got some detail in there keep up the good week practice practice practice
Phil

[Shawn]

Just about broke my neck last time I tried the fumble in the dark approach, Im going to adopt a more scientific approach,,,ie : ask someone....:D

[Shawn]

Thanks Phil, Ill try. the gear can do much much better. Im the weak link...
Could anyone who has imaged this on similar gear post it here. It would help me immensly...

S

[Phil]

What gear are you useing camera software etc.
Phil

[Shawn]

Phil
14" Lx200R, 350D unmodded, maxim. 100ED guide, though not used for this image. plus a liberal dose of inneptitude...


This one
:)

[Astroman]

Nice shot of the galaxy Shawn, brilliant.

[Shawn]

Thanks Astro,

Ive searched the forum for an image of the same, to no avail, Ive searched the net too, but not found anything of the same image scale, I have no idea what can be done with this machine , but Im sure with guidance and tuition, great things...

Its all fun..

S

[Astroman]

So that is full frame with the 14"? One thing you might be able to try is take a heap more of them, and stack them, if you have in camera noise reduction use that too. would clean the image up quite a bit I reckon. you have a great tool at your disposal, cant wait to see what you can come up with next :)

[bluescope]

It is indeed NGC4631 also known as the " Whale and Pup ".

Here's a pic I downloaded some time ago .... not sure who 's image it is. I think I may have found it in the galleries of Ritchey-Chretien Telescopes website but maybe not. Here's a link anyway .... there are lots of great images in the galleries.

http://gallery.rcopticalsystems.com/index.html

Cheers !
[/URL]
Here's direct link to the galaxy in the NGC gallery. Different image.

[URL]http://gallery.rcopticalsystems.com/gallery/ngc4631block.html (http://gallery.rcopticalsystems.com/gallery/ngc4631block.html)

[acropolite]

Nothing to laugh about with that effort Shawn. Looks like you could do with a little more exposure, higher ISO or both. The 350D also has a setting which allows you to take Raw + jpg, if you intend using the RAW at a later date you will need to manually take a dark of the same exposure, as the in camera long exposure noise reduction is only applied to the JPG. If the 350D is anything like the 20D the long exposure noise reduction is in the custom functions menu.

[ballaratdragons]

Shawn, that is superb mate!

You realise now that I have to go find that sucker and see if I can get it with the Toucam :lol:

[Shawn]

I didnt know that Paul, thankyou. and thankyou to Ken...Ill have another go at it when the weather clears, now I know what it is I can find it again....:lol:

[huckabuck]

gravity rain causes that. just ask alex:lol:

[Astroman]

Hey Shawn, since you got the Whale, why not try for its neighbour the "crowbar"

check out this image, taken with an 8" f5 http://web.telia.com/~u18524382/ngc4631_3lo.jpg

[ving]

its lipstick, and thats what you get for kissing your camera :P

nice try tho :)