M8 & M20

[browndog]

This is my fist attempt with my new 6.3 focal reducer on the C8 SCT. I am still only using 30 sec exposures but stacked about 40 of them in DSS and then processed in PS.

I have ordered a guide scope - hopefully it will arrive next week so I can try out longer exposures. :D

Any comments on processing are appreciated.

[leon]

Ian not a bad effort for such short exposures, well don, take it rfom me, once you are guiding you wont look back, I have just learned the art and it is fantastic.
Makes such a difference to your images.

Leon

[Ric]

Nice sharp images Ian and nice details as well.

A fine effort

cheers

[[1ponders]]

Nicely done Ian:thumbsup:

What are you using to resize your images for upload? If you have control over the eventual size, my suggestion would be to keep them a bit bigger and not to compress them so much. There appears to be quite a few compression artifacts in both the images. In your version of Photoshop do you have under the file menu "Save for Web"? This is the best option around as you can exactly compress your image to keep it under the site image size limit yet maintain the best size and quality.

[Dr Nick]

Nice shots, i'd like to see more colour though ;)