Barambah Images

[Tandum]

I got home late this afternoon after spending a couple of nights under very dark skys at Barambah and thought I'd post a couple of the images.

The wide field is my first attempt with this crappy 90-300 lens of the M6 region. 4 x 3minutes @ iso400. The sky there really looks like this, except in better focus :)

M8 is 6 x 5minute @ iso400. Just levels and curves so far.

I have some images to process that were 15minute subs and don't appear to show a hint of skyglow, simply amazing.

[edit] added Orion . 10 subs at 5min, 1min, 30sec, all 3 combined.
[edit] added horse head. 8 x 15minute subs with guiding errors.

[jase]

Looks like your dark sky adventure was very successful. I like the structure forming in M8 - for a basic levels/curves job, it will show real promise when you spend more time on it. Look forward to seeing the remaining images - certainly the 15min subs renditions. Thanks for sharing.:)

[Hagar]

Looks like some very nice images Robin. I hope the other images work out and wait to see them. Nice.

[RB]

Very nice shots Robin, especially for a quick process.
Can't wait to see the 15 min exp set.

:thumbsup:

[Tamtarn]

Good results from your dark skies at Barambah Robin.
Will be great to see your 15 min exposures under such good conditions.

[Tandum]

It certainly is a dark site but it looks like I had alignment issues on the second night.
This is a single raw unprocessed 15minute frame and I see star trails :(

[AlexN]

looking at the stars in that image, it looks like field rotation... towards the right side of the image they arent so bad... and the top left and bottom left, the trails are on different angles... Regardless of that, its brought out a damn lot of data, and is still very pleasing to look at..

[Tandum]

Been plugging away at all that orion data before that one.
Spent 1/2 a night getting orion from every aspect I could think of after all :)
This is as good as it gets for now ...

[jjjnettie]

It's such a shame about your Horse Head, but it's beautiful just the same.
You captured a lot of detail with Orion. Great to see the finished image.
Those skies are so darn dark.

[Tandum]

I'm sure it can be fixed jeanee.

Looking through the individual images I see that the guiding was too agressive as the stars move back and forth between images. It may not be an alignment issue at all. We changed every setting available in phd that night to make it work :) That will teach me for bringing a new, out of the box mount.

And nothing is ever finished :)

[spearo]

nice images,
i especially like the M42 one. Beautiful nebula structure revealed in ti
well done
frank

[Tandum]

Not happy with this one at all but I don't have time to screw around with it so here it is.

[jjjnettie]

I still like it though. It's the colour!
I wonder if Star Rounder would help or not.

[strongmanmike]

Fantastic images Robin! I really like your final M42 it's really good. I like this orientation too as it shows the crest of a wave about to break look the nebula can have - great work!

It does appear that you had some image rotation, quite obvious in your 15min shot of the HH, so your polar alignment must have been quite off..?

How do you guide..?

Mike

[winensky]

Wonderful colour in all images. I would be terrified to try to align in the bush. It takes me weeks to get right just doing repeated set ups in my back yard.

[Tandum]

Yep looks like alignment issues to me, even the 5minute subs of crab show it. I did have guiding issues as well. The eq6 seemed to run away and looking at the graphs from phd, it was churning out bags and bags of guide commands but not enough to hold the star. Resetting the mount fixed it for a while. The sky has finally cleared here so I have a chance to practice drift aligning and that wierd guiding issue with this new mount.

Had to really cut down the size of that orion shot to get it under 200K. It must be full of data.