Full Moon Eta.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Desperate is the word!!

The weather has been lousy for a while now, so imaged eta knowing I would at least get something!

I stuck to one minute exposures so not to saturate with moon light.

Telescope 8" f/4 astrograph on a HEQ Pro 5 mount, orion mini guider.
Unmodded Canon 1100D at ISO 800.
55 x 60 sec subs ISO 800.
11 dark frames, 11 flat frames and 11 bias.
Stacked in DSS and post process in Phototshop.
Cheers,

Justin.

[Ross G]

Hi Justin,

I know your desperation!

Photo looks really good.

Colours very nice, especially considering the moon light.

I am still amazed at the great tracking and stars you get with an 8" on an HEQ5.

Ross.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi Ross,

Thanks for the comments.

The tracking is good for the HEQ pro 5 mount, especially with the orion mini guider. My main advantage is that it's setup in the obsevatory so no realignment needed.

There is a neat trick in photo shop for cleaning up stars, I use the median noise filter set to one pixel. Then gausian blur and unshrp mask, this makes the stars a little tighter.

Cheers,

Justin.

[atalas]

Nice work again Justin.

[strongmanmike]

Hey, very nice colours there Justin :thumbsup:

Mike

[tornado33]

Yes I agree its not monochromatic but shows definate differences in colour across the Nebula. very nice.
Scott

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Louie, Mike and Scott.

I'm slowly learning not to kill the image in moon light conditions.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35]

Nice one Justin. I think that would rate as a very good Eta picture even if the full moon wasn't there.

Cheers

Steve

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Steve,

I find Eta so complex to process, so many variations!

Cheers,

Justin.

[Forgey]

Very nice Justin, there are so many variations of Eta but your colours look lovely !

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Paula!

Cheers,

Justin.