[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice fine resolution Andrew. The stars look fine shapewise. Are you able to get some more colour out of it as it appears to be a bit monochrome.
DSLR's have a tendency to display stars as white. Not 100% sure why that is except perhaps small wells (D800 wells are bigger than a KAF8300 though).

Data is probably there and needs some extra saturation. Nice detail of the whole LMC.

Greg.

Thanks Gregg - I've spent a bit of time using excalibrator to balance the colours before giving the saturation a hefty kick. Although there's now a pleasing amount of yellow stars in there now, the overall green/blue colours just don't seem right. I suspect without H-alpha sensitivity on the chip the nebulosity is never going to be the right colour, although I might just leave the thing running all night next time and see if it improves with more data. Here's the astrobin link to the full-res version.
http://www.astrobin.com/62545/
Otherwise, I'll just have to stump up for a camera-lens compatible front for the QSI and go after this properly too!

Originally Posted by DavidTrap

I'm pretty impressed with the detail too!

Might have to try a mosaic with my FS-60 and QSI583 in due course...

DT

I'm going to have to go the wide angle route with my QSI too I think. I'm certainly not modding my D800...

Originally Posted by renormalised

Nice

Thanks Carl!

Originally Posted by IanP

Nice shot Andrew
Roughly, how far away is your dark(ish) site

Hi Ian - it's about 90 minutes (legal!), 120km drive from near Murdoch out towards York. Not bad for imaging, but is a bit limited for visual due to local seeing. We have mains power, kitchen facilities and toilets. Let me know by PM if you want to come out!

Originally Posted by Larryp

Thanks Larry!