Tarantula Nebula

[dugnsuz]

Tarantula Nebula…
ED80, Synscan EQ5 GoTo mount.
40x30 sec exposures at iso 200 and 640, unguided.
Stacked in groups of 4 x 10, stacked images aligned/ combined in ImagesPlus.
Processed in Photoshop CS.
Cheers
Doug:thumbsup:

[iceman]

Great image Doug! Is that cropped?
You've got some nice star colours too, I can't get any colour :)

[dugnsuz]

Thanks Mike,
Yes it is cropped, re colour - I know what you mean, I cant seem to get any reds in the neb to pop out!
Doug:thumbsup:

[Garyh]

thats very sharp Doug! great detail there.:thumbsup:
very impressed!

[h0ughy]

sorry guys the filters in the camera stop this. Nice image Doug:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Tamtarn]

Great image Doug good detail there.......Your equipment is certainly doing the job :thumbsup:

Look forward to seeing longer exposures

Nice to catch up with you last week :hi:

[leon]

Now your cooking Doug, very nice image, ;) and green as well, when i did one the other night i thought, gee that's green, but i must have been right after all.

Cheers Leon :thumbsup:

[dugnsuz]

Thanks guys, hope you enjoyed your trip down to SA.
The Yarra valley vino was much appreciated.
Hopefully I can do longer exposures now, and I can say bye bye to the 30sec specials!!:lol:



Thanks mate,
I actually really like the green of the Tarantula Neb' - one of my favourites.
A bit of red would be nice though:P

Cheers
Doug:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[2020BC]

Now you're cooking, Doug! Great shot. Looks like you could extract even more detail from that one with a tad extra processing in the fainter areas.. Try setting the black point a few clicks lower. Focus looks good, tracking is spot on. Way to go.:thumbsup:

[dugnsuz]

Thanks Bill,
I hope to get into the autoguiding side of things soon so that I may leave the safety of the 30sec exposure behind me in order to not have to squeeze the crap out of every photon/pixel in the image!!:lol:
I'll experiment with the black point - thanks for the advice Bill
I have had lots of great advice and feedback from many IIS astrophotographers - Thanks all.
Cheers
Doug:thumbsup: