Omega Centauri 11/4/06

[mick pinner]

single shot with Zenithstar 80
350D iso 800 30 sec exp

[iceman]

Nice wide field Mick! What's the full crop look like?

[[1ponders]]

It looks like a good clean single frame Mick. Nice shot.

How soon before you get your autoguiding up and running and can do some longer exposures. I imagine you'll be over the moon when that happens.

Mind if I have a play with the single frame?

[mick pinner]

not at all Paul. What do you mean by the full crop Mike?
l will be putting it on the wedge over Easter so some long exposures next week l hope.

[ving]

long exposures! sweet! :thumbsup:

nice OC shot :)

[[1ponders]]

Just a quick curves, levels and vignette removal using a mask and hey presto, heaps of stars in that single shot.

Looks very promising Mick.

[ving]

i like curves paul... :drool:

[mick pinner]

thank you Paul, what software are you using?

[djacko]

Top effort Mick.

[asimov]

Great shot Mick :thumbsup:

[[1ponders]]

Just Photoshop curves and levels for bringing out more stars Mick. And I subtracted a highly blurred copy of the original to remove some of the vignetting. I couldn't take it all out that way without affecting the image too much, mainly because it was a single shot very compressed jpeg without a full tonal range to work with.