Two new images with the 40D

[Tamtarn]

Two images taken on Sunday night. We think they are up there with the best we have taken with the 40D.

Centaurus A ... Stack of 14 Lights - 7min ... ISO800 .... No Darks ( there's a story to the reason why )

Trifid ... Stack of 18 Lights - 7min ... ISO800 ... 10 Darks ... ISO800

40983 ... 40984

Higher Res Images here - http://barb.david.1.googlepages.com/home

[Alchemy]

fantastic images, lots of light frames brings up the goods.
centaurus a looks great and no darks ? ok.... spill the story:D

lovely detail in the triffid, nice vibrant colors too, im getting jealous of that camera of yours;).

[Tamtarn]

When I started the imaging run on Cent A, the temp was 13deg and I knew I had darks in storage at temps of 13-12deg and another lot at 12-11deg. and was counting on using either of these as darks for Cent A.

Then all of a sudden the temp dropped to 9deg. DSS would not accept the temp difference.

That will teach me to keep a closer eye on things. :D

Anyway the image turned out reasonably well considering no darks - really like this camera Clive, the background comes up very smooth and I am impressed with the overall results it is giving us.

Thanks Clive for your comments on these images and advice you have given us on processing over the past few months. :thumbsup:

David

[RB]

David and Barb, they are up there with the best that I've seen from any DSLR.

I congratulate you both.


:)

[Lester]

Top images, well done.

[sjastro]

Very fine images.

Steven

[Bassnut]

Excellent. Clean, sharp and nice colour balance.

[gbeal]

Yep, add me to the list of believers, very nice, and as has been said incredible to think a DSLR can return this sort of result.
Gary

[Garyh]

Excellent results you two! The trifid is a beauty! and the Centaurus A is very nice as well considering there is no darks!

Just curious but does the camera store details on the temperature in the raws? just wondering how DSS would know?
cheers Gary

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for the kind words Andrew that's high praise indeed


Thanks Lester


Thanks Steven


Thanks for the comments Fred



Appreciate your comments Gary. It's sure easy to improve when you have a good DSLR to work with

[EzyStyles]

great shots guys. fantastic images. Although i dont want to think about 40d's right now from my bad experience ...

[dugnsuz]

Love em, love EM!!!!!
Jeez, they are very nice indeed!
I'm going back for a 2nd look!!!
Sweet!!

[dugnsuz]

Really beautiful detail and colour - very nice!
That Triffid is exquisite!!
Centaurus A is A-mazing too!
Jeez!!!!!
Absolutely Beautiful Images (ABI's)

[Ric]

A big well done to the both of you they are two very excellent images.

The colours are very natural looking and the sharpness and level of detail is spot on.

Cheers

[Tamtarn]

We feel for you Eric. Everything is not going well for you.

We're extremely happy with our 40D unmodded and won't be considering modding it at all at this stage.





Had a twin peek Doug :lol:



Thanks Ric. We were really happy with them and are pleased with the response here

[marc4darkskies]

Both outstanding images! Well done!

Cheers, Marcus

[Tamtarn]

Gary just not sure but when we try and stack darks with a large difference in temp DSS doesn't want to do it. :shrug:

Maybe there's some other reason. We're still trying to work it out ourselves

[leon]

Hope I'm not to late to add my congratulations they are great images Barb and Dave, you are doing some beautiful work of late, well done.

Leon

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for your encouraging comments Marcus and Leon. Much appreciated.