QHY 9 first light - M45

[OzRob]

The skies have finally cleared in my part of the world so it was time that I gave the QHY 9 that I bought in July a try. I picked a nice easy target to start with. This is a very quick process and I know that there are some issues including the blue halos. I will have more of a go at processing this in 2 weeks when I have a bit more time. I am very happy with the star colours.

The image was taken with the equipment in my signature. I aligned and stacked the RGB data in CCD stack and also aligned the RGB data with the lum data and saved them separately. I then had a quick play in PS doing curves and levels before a little selective unsharpening. Data as follows:

Lum 8 x 300secs binned 1x1 (I had to throw away 2 due to guiding errors)
RGB 7 x 180secs binned 2x2 in each channel

[sheeny]

I like it, Rob. I think that's most nebula I've seen in an M45 shot.

Al.

[Alchemy]

Stars are beautifully crisp and clean, it gives it nice depth with the nebulosity.

[TrevorW]

Good job OzRob

[Astroman]

Lots of detail there, well done on a great image! What was the brand of the RGB filters used?

[Garyh]

Looks really good Rob. Only thing it looks a bit flat in the contrast.
A bit more work in the processing would make this image even better.
Have attached a very quick contrast enhancement of your shot..
Hope you don`t mind....
cheers Gary:thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Wow! Very cool Rob. Got plenty of neb in there and nice colors too. Really well done. :thumbsup:

[OzRob]

Thanks everyone for your kind words.



I am using the QHY filters that came with the camera and filter wheel. I was pleasantly surprised that there are no reflections around the brighter stars.

[Lester]

That is a very nice image Rob revealing a lot of this faint nebula. Thanks for the view.

[Cosmic]

Very nice image, although im just starting to get into astrophotography and dont know much about image quality. I personally think thats a bloody nice picture you have taken!!

Cos

[Hagar]

Very nice Rob. The QHY has done you well on this image with lots of nebulosity and dust.

Well done.

[jenchris]

Stunning - like someone's been doing burnouts up there

[OzRob]

I am having a bit of a play today and revisited this as promised. I prefer this version. The nebula is not quite as bright but the colours are better and the stars a bit tighter. Thanks for looking.

Now for that M33 image that keeps on beating me!!!