desler
07-10-2010, 01:17 PM
Hey all,
Let my start with a disclaimer, this is nothing special. Just trying to figure out what I'm doing with a mono camera and trying to compehend what I've actually done to my mental health :P
Well I took the plunge and acquired a used qhy9 and filters (Thanks Hagar)
So with my new feather touch focuser on the ed 120, I figured, How hard can it really be................
Needless to say over the last two nights I have been literally fighting my way through the dark! First, focusmax seemed to be doing it's own thing and after an hour of various failed V curves, it then decided that best focus was when stars were fury white Halo's.
I figered it was operator error and I was just to excited to play with my new toys.
Decided to maually focus and then guiding played up! turned out to be a cable, no problem, just another hour or so to diagnose the problem and find my spare in the garage!
Back to getting it going, Oh no, clouds...................End night 1 at 3.50am..... the story continues..
Night two, fresh head, ah sleep, after a dusk thunderstorm, up at midnight..... "there's no reason I can't get focus max to run" An hour and half later I'm getting pretty good V curves, guiding works ok.
The result is a pretty average M 42.
It's my first mono image and the first time I've blended variouos exposure times. Combination of 10, 60 and 120 sec exposures. 10 x lum and 3 x RGB, each.
Hours later, with eyes hanging out of my head, things seem to start to make sense in CCD Stack, and behold, something that looks faintly fimiliar. The normal stuff in CS 3 and here we are.
I can say that I am happy, just to have got something out of the last two full nights, and I figure the only way from here is up.
Comments/Criticsims and tips always appreciated.
Darren
Let my start with a disclaimer, this is nothing special. Just trying to figure out what I'm doing with a mono camera and trying to compehend what I've actually done to my mental health :P
Well I took the plunge and acquired a used qhy9 and filters (Thanks Hagar)
So with my new feather touch focuser on the ed 120, I figured, How hard can it really be................
Needless to say over the last two nights I have been literally fighting my way through the dark! First, focusmax seemed to be doing it's own thing and after an hour of various failed V curves, it then decided that best focus was when stars were fury white Halo's.
I figered it was operator error and I was just to excited to play with my new toys.
Decided to maually focus and then guiding played up! turned out to be a cable, no problem, just another hour or so to diagnose the problem and find my spare in the garage!
Back to getting it going, Oh no, clouds...................End night 1 at 3.50am..... the story continues..
Night two, fresh head, ah sleep, after a dusk thunderstorm, up at midnight..... "there's no reason I can't get focus max to run" An hour and half later I'm getting pretty good V curves, guiding works ok.
The result is a pretty average M 42.
It's my first mono image and the first time I've blended variouos exposure times. Combination of 10, 60 and 120 sec exposures. 10 x lum and 3 x RGB, each.
Hours later, with eyes hanging out of my head, things seem to start to make sense in CCD Stack, and behold, something that looks faintly fimiliar. The normal stuff in CS 3 and here we are.
I can say that I am happy, just to have got something out of the last two full nights, and I figure the only way from here is up.
Comments/Criticsims and tips always appreciated.
Darren