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kinetic
10-01-2009, 10:28 AM
Hi,

Late night last night, first go at M104 Sombrero Galaxy and Centaurus A radio Galaxy
with the new scope and new camera.
Again, more excuses....windy, high cloud, stars not that sharp,
dark frames leaving artifacts...but a promising indication of what I can
get if I eliminate all these things.


Steve

peeb61
10-01-2009, 10:36 AM
Hi Steve,
Nice images mate! Captured well.
Who said you can have clear skies? Can you send some to the East coast?

Great work
Paul

Hagar
10-01-2009, 12:19 PM
Hi Steve. The images are coming along very well. Lookout when we finally get some weather conducive to good imaging.

I have taken the liberty of just removing the dark frame artifacts from your images. Hope you dont mind.

JohnG
10-01-2009, 12:41 PM
Good stuff, Steve :thumbsup:

Well done considering the conditions and how bright the moon was last night, coming along nicely.

Cheers

AlexN
10-01-2009, 12:47 PM
You're beating me in the galaxy capturing game thats for sure.... about 2 months ago I trusted my GOTO and ran 10x10 min subs of NGC253... Missed.. No galaxy present!! lol..

These look really nice considering the conditions, and you're definitely on your way!

kinetic
10-01-2009, 08:58 PM
Thanks everyone for the encouragement.
It's quite a workload with a mono camera and RGB filters.
And that's before you even get to process them ! :)

Thanks Doug for the artifact tweak.
I think I know what's causing that one bad spot now.
(there are others but not quite as prominent as that)

Every night I get to image now is such a pleasure.
With the DSI, things are so much easier. No glitches,
no on again/off again nights like with webcams, just
pure stability.

Hardly award winning Pic Of The Week stuff I'm getting,
but when you consistently get a best ever,
night after night it's immensely satisfying.

I must have said to myself and others a dozen times lately, why
the heck did I spend 8 years messing with modded webcams!



Steve B.

Ric
10-01-2009, 09:50 PM
A good start Steve, I think you've done really well capturing galaxies on a moonlit night.

I'm looking forward to seeing more.

atalas
10-01-2009, 09:58 PM
Nice catches steve.