test eta shot with new cooled canon40D

[h0ughy]

got my "new" camera yesterday and managed to get a quick 55 minute shot of eta to test the camera on the 127ED

11 x 5 min shots stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight

[Omaroo]

Nice result David. Quite a bit of otherwise hard-to-get detail sitting in the ditch down the middle, in between the shore lines. Very cool! (pun unintended..) :)

[jjjnettie]

Pretty in Pink Dave

[madwayne]

Have to be happy with that one David - I asusme there are no darks calibrated in it.

Nice shot

Wayne

[h0ughy]

did a tweak on the detail....sorry not the colour yet

[Jeffkop]

What a beautiful mess.

[gregbradley]

Nice and sharp and great detail. Green in the background needs toning down though.

Greg.

[h0ughy]

thanks

I like Pink ;) looks "nice" to me - might not be the correct colour but then what is ?

done with flats , dark flats, bias, darks and of course lights LOL


On a sad note - the camera failed tonight when i was testing it. ERROR99 - but it was the shutter control that failed. Better off to find it now then later. oh well back to the trusty cooled 350D while i send this back for repair:sadeyes:

[h0ughy]

will do that now Greg - it was a very quick lunchtime process and i did know that.;) stay tuned;)

[Hagar]

Nice image David. Sorry to hear it has failled already, bummer.

[gregbradley]

Tell me as I am out of the loop with DSLRs but it seems to me that the 40D was a new highpoint for Canon in astrophotography. Did the 50D get any better or was it only minor tweaks that don't affect astrophotography? And there's a later model out too I think.

Greg.

[h0ughy]

ok here is a repro - i hope it is better Greg

[h0ughy]

i had an inkling that it could - especially after Alan's. I did ask Yun to extensively test the camera - i am not sure if he did or no so i wont comment on that. The main thing is that it has travelled several thousand miles after the rebuild and anything could have happened?

[gregbradley]

Now that is a nice image. Wow, that is right up there mate.

Your 40D is going to extract more of the performance out of your 127ED which is obviously a nice scope.

Greg.

[h0ughy]

I hope that it does (when i get it fixed ;) ) PM me your email and i will send you the full framejpeg if you like - so you can see it at 1:1:question:

[multiweb]

Cool pic. Great details and nice contrast. :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

as for the colour - i was a tad rushed at lunch and didn't pay much attention to the tinge - though i knew it was there i didn't realise how bad it was until i saw it on an uncalibrated monitor. i processed this on a poor old Toshiba core solo Satellite - but it does have a beautiful screen and is calibrated.

[h0ughy]

thanks Marc - i was preparing to do it again tonight for 4 hours - but the camera failed

[h0ughy]

i might add that it was the power supply and not the camera that failed - i have since recitfied that problem

[strongmanmike]

Mate, aren't you just the imaging machine now :eyepop:

That looks good, for ANOTHER Eta shot :rolleyes: (I know t'was just a test ...:scared:)..lemmi see..:question:....maybe attack Cen A again? :D

Mike

[seeker372011]

ouch

[h0ughy]

look further on - it was the power supply - working well now

[h0ughy]

when it clears mike;)

[RB]

David, love that final version, lovely sharp detail and the colours look great.

Good to hear that the error99 was rectified on the cooooooled 40D.

:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks RB. It wood look even better attached to your door stop

[RB]

:P

Now you know the doorstop will be coming out to play soon. :whistle:

[h0ughy]

well after all i got an observatory - so there is hope yet for the doorstop

[acropolite]

Nice result Sir h0ugh, most impressive. :thumbsup: