Couple of Pics from Wiruna New Moon Week-end

[multiweb]

Hi all, here's a couple of pics I took last night at wiruna. Sky was awesome. Very dewy night [everything was dripping in water] but the seeing was very good. Tracking was "so..so...". I prioritised dinner over good polar alignment. Who can resist a call to the ASNSW lamb roast?

Both shots are 10x2min ISO800 *istD on ED80 at prime focus. No dark, no flat - stacked in CCD stack and noise reduction in photoshop. No level or curves. As advised and with some help from Barb and David for the camera settings, I managed to get some colours this time :) - Hopefully last pics from my Pentax. I'm getting a QHY8 delivered next week. Thanks for watching.

[renormalised]

Nice piccies, Marc. You'll notice the diff' with your QHY8!!!!:)

[Hagar]

G'Day Marc, Nice pictures. You will certainly notice the difference with the QHY8. Don't expect miracles on the first outing with it as it is quite a step up from the DSLR. With a little experimenting it will blow you away what can be achieved.

Good luck and dark skies

[AlexN]

Nice shots Marc.

The Omega Centauri shot is very very nice until you get right to the core, It seems a little over blown... Perhaps a few subs at ISO400 or less exposure at 800 would have helped in that respect.

Great pair of images in any event. :)

Well done.

[multiweb]

Thanks for the kind comments guys.


You're right Alex. I'll have to revisit that one. My subs are kind of burnt in the center :whistle:


Thanks Doug - When I see the stuff you've done with it lately I can hardly wait to play with it . Should arrive this week hopefully :D