Over 9 hrs of M33

[guyroch]

I’ve been very busy lately working on my BackyardEOS project and I haven’t done much imaging or processing. I rented a cottage last weekend about 2 hours out of town and oh boy was I ever happy I decided to tear down the NEQ6 off the concrete pier and bring it along with the EON 120. The skies where clear both nights and I could see the horizon all around – I had a blast.

I took close to 10 hours of M33 with the CLS clip filter and about 4 hours of IC434. I did not get the chance to process IC434, but here is my first rendition of M33.

Critical comments are more than welcome, I still struggle when it comes to stretching in PS, but I’m getting better, I think :shrug:

Telescope: Orion EON 120mm ED
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding: Orion 80ST, SSAG, PHD
Camera: Canon Digital 40D (Modded by HyperCams – Brent Oliver)
Filter: Astronomik CLS Clip Filter
Temperature: 2 Celsius (35 Fahrenheit)

Exposures: 96 x 360 seconds @ ISO 1600
Calibration: 81 darks, 25 flats, and 25 bias

TOTAL: 9 hours 36 minutes

Acquisition: BackyardEOS - RAW
Processing: Nebulosity – Calibrated (Bap Pixel Map, Bias, Flats), Registered, Stacked
Post-processing: Photoshop, NeatImage, Carboni’s Tool

Location: Nangor Resort, Ontario, Canada
Date(s): October 10 & 11, 2010

[Octane]

Guy,

Excellent effort -- well done.

H

[Alchemy]

Lovely detail, the Ha regions are well defined.

[multiweb]

Wow! That is very very nice indeed. Lovely colours, excellent details and processing. Top notch! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[wasyoungonce]

Hi Guy....All this from a DSLR :eyepop: WOW!

Did you use the BackyardEOS Dither function?

Well done indeed.

[RobF]

It just blows my mind when people succeed in capturing Ha regions in galaxies. To think of all those nebula in another galaxy.

Top work!

[guyroch]

Did I use my own monster to Dither... you bet I did! Speaking of BackyardEOS, I have had great initial testing with the 40D, 50D, T2i, 1000D. The XSi and the T1i is currently in testing - A release is eminent :)

Yes, all this from a moded Canon 40D DSLR.

Guylain

[TrevorW]

top effort well done

[Hagar]

Very nice image. Captured a lot of detail in the arms and ha areas well done.

[Miaplacidus]

Amazing the detail that you've pulled out there. So many hours. Well done.

Brian

[guyroch]

Anyone willing to take on a challenge. You are more than welcome to download the raw stack and process it. All I ask is that you post your result and your processing steps. I'd like to learn from them :)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/leonrv

Have fun tearing it down

[multiweb]

Here you go. Had a go at it. DDP, Saturation and color balance in CCDStack. I used PS CS5. Noiseware for noise reduction. Levels, Curves, Sharpening and further color balance and saturation all done in PS. I've put a higher-res here (http://www.astropic.net/guy/M33-V002b_f.jpg). [2.3MB]. Very cool data to work with. Sure others can do much better process though :thumbsup:

[marco]

Very nice reprocess Marc, I like it!

Marco

[trent_julie]

Impressive.....

[guyroch]

Very nice indeed, I like your re-process better than my original. You've managed to really pull out the HA and you've kept the overall color balance to a more realistic look, not blue'ish like mine.

Awesome!

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Oops... Did that two days ago on my laptop and just saw it on a calibrated screen on my desktop now. Looks like the reds (and noise) are really heavy. I've made a mental note never to process on a that laptop again. Sorry for butchering the colors on your lovely data! :P ;)

[CoolhandJo]

nice dso! well done!

[irwjager]

That is an awesome example of what you can do with modest equipment - I can't believe that's a humble DSLR! I love your processing too. I guess I'm just a fan of the cooler colors... :)

Neat idea to put up your raw data by the way. I wish more people did it for all of us to learn from. I may toy around with it a bit and see what I can come up with.

Keep up the excellent work on BackyardEOS!

[guyroch]

Please do, my processing skills are mediocre at best, I need to practice a lot more and hints from others is where the learning stage starts :)



Thanks, I made BackyardEOS my life lately, I don't think my wife knows who I am anymore, hidden in my man cave growing a beard :) I should be releasing it early November.

[irwjager]

Hahahaha :lol:
You wouldn't believe in how much of the same situation I am now (including the out-of-control beard). I just committed myself to StarTools full-time, in order to bring my 10+ tools to the big three platforms with a GUI.

I already know from experience that becoming an independent software publisher/vendor is a very risky thing to do and financially only makes sense if you have a unique product and the goodwill of a large enough user base (and an understanding partner ;) ).

But if you believe you got something that sets you apart from all the other stuff that's out there, then you owe it to yourself to try! :thumbsup: