Hi guys
First of all I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Christmas and new year. I was lucky enough to grab the lodestar from the classifieds yesterday and my adapter to my OAG came in the mail at the same time. The last image I posted was of the dark clouds in a sea of hydrogen emission in Orion. Over Christmas I attempted to capture some colour for it from Pauls dark site. I got 6 hours of colour but high clouds caused gradients that were impossible to deal with, I only knew they were there when I watched Pauls time lapse. I decided that with 28.5 hours of Hydrogen alpha data I would move on to another target from home.
A few things had been bugging me about my images, bright stars were flaring at 45 degrees to the diffraction spikes which is evident in the ldn1622 image. I eventually worked out that the bolts holding the focuser on were protruding into the light path ever so slightly. I took the whole thing off while waiting for my Lodestar to arrive and replaced them with shorter bolts.
My next image is a little more run of the mill than my last one. I will be doing a narrow band rosette image. So far I have 7.5 hours of hydrogen alpha. I am contemplating binning the O3 and S2 data and just using the HA as luminance but I will cross that bridge when I get to it. This is a quick and dirty processing effort, stars are over sharpened but I will fix that when I complete the data set.
I hope you all enjoy them
Ldn1622 Big
http://www.astrobin.com/72067/
Rosette Big
http://www.astrobin.com/72070/