[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah Kev, this is a great rendition of this baby, while it is correctly coloured red you also have some subtle colour variation too which is good to see, great field too

Mike

Thanks Mike! The Baader filter seems to allow a good balance of Ha and OIII for my camera, while the CLS is mostly Ha. Sometimes it helps to mix them.

Originally Posted by MGTechDVP

Great result... one on my to do list, never attempted the cat's paw yet....
I said it before and I'll say it again.. who said DSLR is no good and you need a CCD to do astro imaging....

Awesome image, well done, especially on a unmodded camera.

Thanks Marius! I know my DSLR will never match a CCD but I like the thing lol. It's compact and, well... cheap.

Originally Posted by andyc

This image is almost astonishing. I'm quite conscious of the value of many subs in smoothing noise levels, but this is a brilliant demonstration. I'm seriously tempted to try doing lots of 2-minute exposures rather than my usual 5 minutes, simply to up the number of subs and get closer to this level of noise smoothing for a similar imaging time. Though the eyes water at the thought of anywhere near 448 RAW files! Very impressive indeed for 30 second subs.

Thanks Andy! 448 RAW files do tie the computer up for a while, but I can still browse while is crunching away. I'm only using an i5 laptop as well.

Originally Posted by rmuhlack

very nice work there Kevin!

Thanks Richard!