Slack a stack

[xelasnave]

Well I thought some long exposures stacked may be the go.

Using the 70/300 ($200 cheap lens as in the twin lens pak) piggy back unguided on an eq6 thru canon 300d and 800 iso.

I meant to do everything right with 300 seconds per frame:) well they came in all over the place:D 320 , 340 that sort of thing cause I was doing something else:whistle: and kept forgetting to close the shutter:eyepop: .. so you will forgive me adding a near 400 second dark frame..to the five frames at approximately 300 seconds...I did a flat field but lost it..not really but it would not stack last time so I left it out..it stacked so its here:thumbsup: .


All hail to deep sky stacker ..mind you I tried to get it to stack these and others about 2 weeks ago and it would not...

Took the best result I could manage from Deep Sky Stacker and put it in photo shop..did auto levels, and auto colour, brightness blurr shadows thing;) ..and downsized it to this...lost a bit but there you go:)
alex:) :) :)

[strongmanmike]

Apart from the "TV tube about to blow" look, it's great! :)

Lots of signal there and well, it is of the hub of our galaxy so you can't go wrong really :thumbsup:

Mike

[Doug]

Alex, wadayamean about stacking a flat??

a puzzled,
Doug

[xelasnave]

Thanks Mike.
Doug I dont know other than there is a section in the Deep Sky Stacker program that says flat... I figured thats where you put it.
alex

[xelasnave]

Here is my M7 attempt with 160 second exposures but it seems to lack color to me even if it is the right color..I dont know what I can do with it.
alex

[Terry B]

Loks pretty green to me. Not much other colour. Not sure what has happened.

[Doug]

Oh. Ok Alex, I guess I just didn't understand what you meant.
Nice enough images bytheway. Keep them coming. But about the green cast............I'll PM ya.
Doug

[jjjnettie]

Deep Sky Stacker, you're right, it's a great program, very forgiving.
You got heaps of detail there Alex. Thanks for posting.

[Astroman]

Yep looks too green, after stacking try adjusting the RGB slider values so they are more even. I usually only saturate up to about 16%, anything more than that tends to look fake to me.

[Garyh]

Nice one Alex!!
What Andrew says about RGB sliders to get a nicely balanced color image.
Make sure to tick to apply your changes to your image when you save it.
cheers Gary

[xelasnave]

Thanks everyone for the help, advice and encouragement.
I am not trying to make excuses for me rather than point out to anyone thinking of having a go how much fun they can have with something they may already own..many folk have the canon twin pak and that with a basic eq mount can get these... needless to say most should be able to do better because they most certainly will manage to process better.. I play with the dials and pick something after 50 attempts approach..but I like the arty side so some gallaxies end up with a couple of super nova bursts and resolvable planets.
I have found a fairly good m7 at 400iso and although a single frame I will see if I can come up with the right color.
Thanks again
alex

[Dr Nick]

Nice work! Secong image is very greean... ;)