Flame and Horse Head

[jjjnettie]

:) This is a true first light for the new camera, (a cooled and modded Canon 1100D), using the ED80.
It performed wonderfully, keeping to a pretty steady -14 all through the session.
A total of 3hrs and 45min of exposure time, using 5 minute subs.
It's mainly captured at ISO 400 with about an hour of ISO 800 thrown in. I'm still experimenting to find out which setting is best.
I had taken darks and used them initially, I found that they made no difference to the image so decided to process the image without them.
I did use flats though. You've gotta use flats. :)
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS3.

As the season progresses I'll be adding more data. :)

[cometcatcher]

Outstanding image there J.

I'm afraid with summer here in the tropics, all I'm shooting are hot pixels with my non-cooled camera.

[E_ri_k]

Wow, that has turned out really nice! Well done :)

[lacad01]

That turned out very nice indeed, good job :thumbsup:

[DavidU]

Your best image yet:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[allan gould]

Saw your camera at Astrofest and loved the look of it. It's really turned out a great image in your hands. Well done JJJ and enjoy all it's potential.
Allan

[wayne anderson]

Very nice shot jjj one to keep for sure, that cooled camera is very cool, now you have inspired me to think of a cooling mod for mine it can get hot and noisey at times.

[Poita]

Lovely!
I find with the QHY8 I rarely need darks either. Makes things easier.

That is a massive halo, any idea what is causing that? I kinda like it though.

[alistairsam]

That's really nice jjj. Do you have any pics of your modded camera and setup?

[cybereye]

Very nice! :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

That would be Alnitak causing the halo. It's a hot blue supergiant and the bane of anyone imaging the region. The little star right next to it is one of it's 2 companions. :)

[cometcatcher]

I even get flare from Alnitak when shooting M42!

[pixelsaurus]

Nice job jjj.

[Kunama]

Great image, well composed, I hope to get a result like that...... one of these days.

[Larryp]

Great image, JJJ!:thumbsup:

[naskies]

Wow, looks very nice :) Out of curiosity, how did you end up choosing a cooled 1100D over an astro CCD?

[Screwdriverone]

Holeee cow JJJ.

Fantasmagorical.

That is all.

Chris

[jjjnettie]

I was looking into getting an OSC CCD but after doing a bit of research I figured that this camera could produce comparable images, with the added benefit of being able to utilise my existing camera lenses for wide field work.

[Paul Haese]

Nice colour and smooth image. I would be suggesting it needs nothing more. Saturation is sensational

[Rod771]

Very nice Jeanette :thumbsup: love it.

[RickS]

Very nice work, JJJ! The new camera is working very well.

[Martin Pugh]

A quantum leap in your imaging JJ.

Very, very nice.

cheers
Martin

[strongmanmike]

Yes, a nice result JJJ, it seems to lack colour variation:question: though... but even so it looks quite wowy :thumbsup:

Mike

[Gem]

A classic look. Well done. :)

[jjjnettie]

:rofl: It went through some pretty funky colour variations while I was trying to balance the damn thing. :lol:


Thanks for the kind comments everyone.

[Osirisra]

Very nice! That cooling mod works a treat.

Using the RC8 much? I'm still trying to get mine working how I want with the OAG.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

That's good jjj!

Great colour balance.

Do you know what temp your modded 1100D runs at?

Cheers,

Justin.

[blink138]

ermegerd woooo very nice nettie!
i was out imaging the other night and captured that flame nebula but wasnt sure what it was called and i thought the horsey was near there somewhere
pat

[Stevec35]

Looks pretty good to me.

Cheers

Steve

[jjjnettie]

Backyard EOS stamps the temp onto the file name of every sub. At the beginning of the session it was running at -11 then it got cooler as the night progressed. At the very end it was at -16.

[jjjnettie]

:rofl: you're crackers Pat.

[stardust steve]

Superb. Love the detail in the flame and the star colours. Especially those little orange ones :)

[Nortilus]

A+ nettie...

[beren]

:thumbsup: well done looks great

[naskies]

Thanks for explaining. I'm in a similar position (wanting to upgrade from a stock DSLR) and seriously contemplating a OSC camera. I look forward to seeing lots of great images from you!

[astronobob]

Very nice Jeanette :thumbsup: Wowsers even , , , been a while since i seen your work, You have progressed really well : ) Great stuff ! !

[David Fitz-Henr]

Great image Jeanette! Lovely detail and colour - must be one of the best DSLR images I've seen; if you hadn't have mentioned it, I would have assumed it was taken with a CCD camera.