Eagle - first attempt

[taxman]

Inspired (okay, I copied :D) by JJJNettie's first shot of m16 posted a week or two ago, I had a crack of my own.

Mind you, at my level of (in)experience, pretty much everything is my first go :lol:

Best 80% of 120x75 sec calibrated (darks & flats) shots through an Atik 314E and FS60CB on an unguided EM11. Levels and curves in GIMP.

Any comments, criticism and suggestions gratefully accepted...

[TrevorW]

Great first attempt
what did you use to stack
find something better than GIMP
try IRIS it's free

[jjjnettie]

awwww, thanks, glad it got you motivated to have a go yourself.:)
You've done a great job of it too.
You may need to back off with the levels, the background is a wee bit too dark and you're missing out on valuable data.

[Iceaxe]

Matt
looks good
Joe :)

[taxman]

Thanks, JJJ...

I see what you mean about levels - I tend to treat my computer like a drunk monkey with a power tool sometimes. I couldn't put my finger on what wasn't quite right - It's funny how it often takes someone else to see what is wrong.



I use Deep Sky Stacker to calibrate, stack, and align RGB. Also, I know GIMP is probably not the best, but I have an upgrade to Photoshop (hopefully) coming around tax time and I wanted to use something with a similar interface so my inner drunk monkey with flippers for hands would not get confused...

[spacezebra]

Excellent Matt

Cheers Petra d.

[jjjnettie]

A couple more freebie image processing programs you might be interested in.
Irfanview
and
Image Analyzer