Loretta and Lagoon 15x9min

[gb44]

Hi all
I was delighted with this one stacked and barely processed in ImagesPlus so I'm sticking it here before beginning to do a more advanced sort of processing!

15x 9min with my SW ED100 refractor, QHY410c on low gain, -10degrees, with a LPS filter. Some interesting artifacts are included... Some stars look like PNebs.

Cheers
Glennb

[Crater101]

You know, if I'd produced that, I wouldn't be tempted to do too much more to it at all, but I'm new to the photographic side of things.
Really nice result. :thumbsup:

[AstroViking]

That's a fine image, Glenn. Well done.

Lots of subtle detail in the nebulosity that's waiting to be seen.

Cheers,
V

[xelasnave]

Brilliant...your seeing makes me envious.
It will be hard to improve on your effort here.
Alex

[Dave882]

You should be very proud of such a fantastic shot! Well done!!
I find that when using an LP filter I get some chromatic rings around my stars if focus starts to shift during the session, so might be worth refocusing if you notice that is the subs. :thumbsup:

[gb44]

Thanks guys.

Dave, I do see the fringe too. Ive used it to achieve focus, the red fringe disappears through focus and a blue fringe appears on the other side of focus.
I thought it was the ED refractor... I'll have a go at rechecking focus. I try to settle at focus with the focusser on its way out.
Maybe its time for a better LPS filter. What do you guys use?
Mine is pretty old.

GlennB

[gb44]

Hi
I used StarTools to get to this from the same stacked dataset.
Still shows the artifacts and coma which I hadnt seen much of with this SW ED100 refractor.

Thanks for looking.
GlennB