4 August 2012 Sunnage from the doghouse

[h0ughy]

Got some sun this arvo, the last until astrofest on friday

60mm lunt DS dmk41 stacked in autostakker2 and the inti registax and then onto ps

still learning and experimenting

[RB]

Wow David, to me, that looks like your best yet.
It looks great on my lappy screen !

Gorgeous detail.

I think I need some lessons from yah dude.

:D

[RB]

BTW, Sue and the kids love it too.......

hahaha Sue said "Is that with his newest filter (diagonal) purchase?"
Sorry mate I have a big mouth.

:lol:

[h0ughy]

geez RB thanks. as for the lessons - i am still in kindy :rofl:

[h0ughy]

you bugger - no it hasnt arrived at the maryland mail facility yet. hopefully before wednesday.

Thanks Sue:thumbsup::help:

[gbeal]

It's a comin' Huff mate, it's coming. The reduction in contrast is much more pleasing, try a bit more still I reckon.
Gary

[trent_julie]

Nice one David!

[sheeny]

Getting there Dave!:thumbsup: I like the processing of the proms. I didn't spot the lower one in your image when I captured mine yesterday.

Looks to me like you have a little bit of uneven brightness. There's a hot spot just and right of centre (like you had a spot light shining on a ball from above and behind your right shoulder. I think that is just a matter of tuning the Ha filter to get a even brightness. That's help when it comes to mosaics;).

Your images also look to me like you are just slightly overexposing and losing the highlight detail on the disk. Do you use the histogram to set your exposure? I set mine so the white point on the histogram is about 225 say. Always have zero intensity at the RHS of the histogram.

Al.

[h0ughy]

ok will look at that later Gary, but i don't mind this - even if its not in the perfect colour range

[h0ughy]

no Al i have just been doing it by eye where is the histogram in the image source software? i suppose i did deliberately line up the hotspot to try and make a pseudo 3d effect. hey how about when you doing some sunnage today you get a screen grab of your settings and such so i can compare to what i did?

[h0ughy]

:thanx:

[sheeny]

Sorry Dave, it won't be today. I've missed any opportunity to get any sunnage today.

FWIW the histogram is the 5th button from the left on the toolbar.

My IC Capture settings are: Y800 uncompressed, Gain - 380, adjust exposure time to suit.:)

Al.

[multiweb]

Yeah really nice. :thumbsup:

[Matt Wastell]

Hi David
Your best one to date? Congratulations!

[Derek Klepp]

Dave nice pic

[h0ughy]

yes i use the y800 and the gain was around the 300 odd mark - maybe the exposure was 1/125 or something similar?

thanks Marc

- i would have to agree - will have to do the repro of the others

thanks Derek

[sheeny]

With the SM40, my exposures varied from 1/54s low in the sky in winter with inactive sun to 1/90s higher in the sky and more active sun. I can't exactly remember my exposure with the LS60F but I think it was about 1/180s:shrug: at 600mm FL. Bummer... no clues in metadata, I just checked.
Al.

[h0ughy]

thanks what i found with my videos. the only thing really recorded was the time and date i started the vid and that was in the name of the file.:help::shrug:

[seeker372011]

Really nice result

[Deeno]

Lookin' really good!
You must be a quick study........

[iceman]

Hey now you're talking Dave, easily your best processing effort.

[sheeny]

Yeah, the only meta data I found was frame rate and duration.

Al.