Leo Triplet

[jjjnettie]

One hour and 50 minutes of some quite ordinary data.
I was wondering why my guiding was up the creek, the cables from the guide cam had managed to get wrapped around the draw tube. (trailing in every single bleeding sub ):rolleyes: Thank goodness for the Star Rounder plug in.;)
So...
5x5min and the rest were just 3min @ iso800.
Canon 20d ( modded )
HEQ5Pro
ED80
This is my first time using a modded cam, and it was an interesting but fun learning curve re. colour balancing.
I'm sure everyone is bursting at the seams to tell me a simple one step method to doing it right first time every time. :)

[Octane]

Hey, that's great Jeanette!

I reckon you can go a bit harder in Photoshop and stretch a bit more.

You have relatively clean blacks there, too, so, it can withstand a bit of levels and curves work.

Great field of view and gives me ideas to try of my own. :D

H

[jjjnettie]

It's still a work in progress H, aren't they all, until you capture new data?
Thanks for looking.

[alan meehan]

nice shot jjj you have done well
AL

[batema]

Love the Leo triplet. Looks good. How good is this weather?

[jjjnettie]

I know, I should be out there again tonight. The mount is all set up, but the heat and humidity have sucked the energy out of me. LOL

[adman]

ditto - plus I didn't get home from work till 7pm, then dinner and kids to bed. No fun setting up at 8:30 in the dark...:sadeyes:

Nice image btw!

[leon]

Great image JJJ, tangled wires and all, well done indeed.

Leon

[peter_4059]

Nice start JJJ. The stars have turned out good!

[gregbradley]

A great result there.

Did you setup a custom white balance for your modded DSLR?

If you do the images come out almost colour correct and only a slight red bias instead of a massive one.

Greg.

[danielsun]

Coming along nicely there JJJ!:thumbsup:

[jones]

I think that's a wonderful job you're doing that. But next time I recommend dithering and see if you can crank some colour out of them stars :)

[strongmanmike]

Excellent Jeanette, nicely framed and a good recovery it would seem :thumbsup:

Mike

[marki]

Wonderful shot JJ very nicely framed and some good detail there.

Mark

[TrevorW]

Well done JJ

[Stigandi]

Very nice JJJ. This came out much cleaner that my early attempt at the Triplet..... :) I just got the dome set up but still trying to get the &^%&$ thing polar aligned. Had the cable snaffu myself a couple times..

[astroron]

Nicely framed Jeanette,Just a bit closer together than in my 17mm Nagler:thumbsup:
Cheers

[Stevec35]

Nice looking image for only one hour 50 minutes. I agree with the observation it could be stretched some more though. I think that would make it even better.

Cheers

Steve

[Lester]

Very nice image jjj, plus the tracking looks good= good on ya. Thanks for the view. All the best for more.