Large Magellan Cloud 300d wide field

[xelasnave]

Had a go at the Large Magellan Cloud with the 300d zoomed out, guided on lxd55 mount sorry I cant find the exposure time. I cropped a little off the right of the photo to minimise the amp glow effect.
Alex

[xelasnave]

and cropped a lot more

[davidpretorius]

I like it!

It definately is a galaxy the old lmc, great work!

First time i have seem it like this, thank you!

[davidpretorius]

Alex, do i have your permission to download and play with noise removal software?

[xelasnave]

Dave (I presume or do you prefer David) I only get to use my wifes computer during visits with my daughter, therefore I dont get time to develope my processing sckills. If you would take the time to work on any of my captures I would be delighted.
alex

[davidpretorius]

Dave, Davo, David, I do not mind. I am learning also, so where i do not have access to tracking yet for my dob, i love to learn processing with great image captures.

Here is a quick run thru of your image in a program called neat image, it tries to detect noise and then removes it. I have just done a default setting, so a little more care on my behalf will make sure no detail is lost.

[xelasnave]

Thanks for having a go David. I think I can see the Big Spider's legs.
I too have a large dob (Bintel 300mm or 12 inch) and the views thru it are really very good. I long to have it on a equatorial mount and do fotos. We are building a fork equatorial for it but its taking ages and because of the changes during construction it is starting to look ugly even for a proto type... but looking at the prices of good equatorials that will carry the weight I cant see any other way than building one out of scrap.. the next one should be of a commercial standard we hope. However the fotos I get using the little 80 x 400 ar are very satisfying and the short f/l makes tracking less demanding..
alex

[davidpretorius]

I hope to have my dob based motorized before the end of october via my laptop. I can then start to see how well it will image, and then look at a eq6.

I have had a few plays with your orion shots, not much extra to do to that excellent blue orion. The red one i cleaned up a touch. Tried to play in astra image, into red, green and blue and then combining, but didn't seem to do too much - lots of stuff for me to learn here.

I know i said it before, but i really like that blue one.

I had a look at orion last night and it is really spectacular. Lovely night down here in tasmania.

Got some mars pictures and as happy with the result.

[xelasnave]

Here is one I took of the Small Magellan cloud and you can see T47 clearly
alex

[atalas]

Nice to see someone is getting the clear skies to work there cameras Alex !

Louie :thumbsup:

[xelasnave]

I think it was blue cause of the prescence of the Moon. I will be interested to hear how a motor set up on a dob goes... and mount wise Losmandy Titan with all the scopes I own on it experiencing only fraction of second error (if any at all)... saw a mount on the web...$100,000-00 can you believe that.
Here is the OTA I built for a 235 mm x 1800 fl reflector which I hope to instal a 12 inch mirror, this unit had a large fork mount with a 6 foot diameter polar disk.. it is this mount we are reconstructing.
alex,