Yet another M8 ... yes its the Lagoon again

[toryglen-boy]

Several subs of 3 mins, forgotten how many, with darks, taken on a Canon 1000d,stacked in DSS, taken on 200mm F5 with Baader MPCC, with ST80 guided with an Orion SSAG, on an EQ6 mount.

[Hagar]

Hasn't come up to bad Duncan but the biggest improvemnt will be extending the legth of the subs out quite a bit. This will raise your signal to noise ratio and make processing a lot easier.

I meant to ask what happend to your HEQ5? Remember our discussion a while back!

[multiweb]

Duncan, your data acquisition is now impeccable. You just need to focus on processing to bring the best out of it. That's a great picture you've got there. A bit burnt out though. You might want to look into the trial version of CCD Stack. It has one of the best DDP implementation around. Give it a go, compare and see if it works for you. Again you've captured some superb data there. Keep it up :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[toryglen-boy]

Thanks Marc, coming from the the people who post some great images on here, thats praise indeed.

Again, when i processed it on my laptop, there was ALOT more to see. But on here, its really quite dark, i think i will put CS4 on my HTPC, and just work on my pictures on that.

again, thanks for the encouragement.

:thumbsup:

[multiweb]

From what you've displayed here and looking at the equipment it was taken with IMHO it's as good as it gets. :thumbsup: Now there is a lot you can do in processing. DDP being one of the most important thing to bring out smoothly the whole dynamic range. I used Neb2, DSS, tried importing FITS directly in PS CS3/4. In my experience CCD Stack is on a league of its own that's why I said give it a go you've got nothing to lose and if it doesn't knock your socks off then you can come back to this thread and give me a hard time :lol:

[toryglen-boy]

Cant say any fairer than that !!

:P

[jjjnettie]

Wow, you have done well haven't you.
Lots and lots of detail.
Are you going to keep adding data to this one? It would be worth it.

[toryglen-boy]

yeah, go on then!! i might as well, and i think i might have to proces it again, it looked far better on my laptop, than on here ...


:screwy:

[Martin Pugh]

Looks like that newly acquired autoguider is working well for you Duncan

Any particular reason why you limited your subs to 3minutes?

well done....keep it up.

cheers
Martin

[toryglen-boy]

Thanks Martin.

Noise and fogging, although i have recently been messing around with settings, and can now get 6 min subs with just about the same noise. I also use an Astronomiks CLS clip in filter for EOS cameras, and i find that it does a great job of blocking LP, but if there are any brightish stars near by, then the whole background gets over exposed, again i am tackling this by shooting objects when they get near the zenith.

its a work in progress, that frought with learning things, and coated with a healthy does of frustration.

:thumbsup: