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cruiser
06-03-2009, 12:04 AM
Hi,

I finally got around to processing some shots of Lulin from last Friday night.
First one is a crop from a wide view taken through a 40D with 100mm lens piggybacked. 16x60sec + darks & lights.
2nd shot is through a 100ed. 20x30sec + darks & lights.

Stacked in DSS then photoshop (learning curves and levels etc as I go :screwy:).

Brett

iceman
06-03-2009, 04:37 AM
Nice work Brett, well captured.

jakob
06-03-2009, 08:54 AM
I'm impressed! Very nice images.
How do you manage this dark sky from your location?
I was looking at Lulin last night, but all I saw was a smudge!

Jakob.

cruiser
06-03-2009, 09:28 AM
Hi Jakob,

Its the light pollution that kept me to the short exposures (just more of them). Attached is the stacked but unprocessed wide 60sec wide angle shot that I took that night. Its brighter at the bottom of the image which I am putting down to not getting good flats which is why I cropped it. My photoshops skills are not good enough yet to fix it. But I'm still working on that.

I tried longer exposures but the shot became very washed (white) out.
Maybe time to look into some filters.

Brett

Quark
06-03-2009, 10:17 AM
Nice images Brett,
Good effort from your location, like the wide field shot.

Regards
Trevor