Rosette said the Pig in Lipstick!

[graham.hobart]

Had some friends over and cooked a nice roast, so was points up when the sky cleared! (Honey just going outside to check the sky etc!)
Here-my friends, and especially to you Adam, is the pig in lipstick Rosette! With home modded Canon 450D+ CLS CCD filter, iso 1000, three minute lights x 10 (clouds again spoilt the rest) plus flats and darks.
For those who don't know- the pig in question is a cheap 8" reflector with a bright red moonlite focuser.
This is my first (shared) Rosette so am inordinately proud of it-having had a go several times before and not getting it right.
Stacked in DSS and tweaked in StarTools and Paint.Net.
Cheers
Graham:tasdevil:

[rcheshire]

Nice one Graham. The Rosette came up well. Pity about the clouds.

[ZeroID]

The 'Pig' done good there Graham. Nice pic.
Congrats on getting it all together finally. :thumbsup:

( Cool name for a scope btw :lol: )

[adman]

fantastic graham - you even got the leaping cheetah, and can just about make out the donkey.

So, there was a pig, a cheetah, and a donkey....sounds like that start of a good joke! :lol: Can anyone finish it for me?

Having my cleanout, I came across the bahtinov mask for that scope. Its no good to me anymore, so I will try to get it in the post for you. It really does make focusing a whole lot easier.

Cheers
Adam

[irwjager]

That's a wicked image Graham! Easily your most promising data to date!

Small tip again. You forgot rule #1 before your start processing which is getting rid of stacking artifacts around the borders of the image (keep following tutorial #1 about preparing your data for processing). You'll find all the automation will produce much better results without such artificial data in your image - the green fuzz should disappear and the automated stretching will yield much better results.
You might also want to use to Lens module if you don't have a field flattener to fix the star elongation. Or if you stars are of a high enough resolution (can be problematic with a wide field like this) you could use the Repair module to fix them up.
There's heaps of intricate detail that I was able to recover, even from the JPEG.

Brilliant data! :thumbsup:

Cheers,

[graham.hobart]

Too true! was a bit early in the am when processed so will have another go later when fully rested....
Cheers
Graham

[graham.hobart]

edited-re processed again...

[irwjager]

Great stuff Graham - seemed to have sorted out all the issues! :thumbsup: