Well, it's been a long time between drinks but I think my camera problems are now behind me
. I've also gone into semi retirement (as of Friday
) so plenty of time to image now!!! If the weather is kind this will be my first image in 12 months
!
Anyway, I thought I'd kick off again with a challenging target! NGC 1788 is quite a faint one and off the beaten track. So far it's only 5 hours of luminance. There's only a small amount of emission to see but I'm gathering Ha as well. I should probably get more Lum too since noise control was doable but challenging. I think I nailed the composition though!
Being early days, I'm only displaying at 50% res this time. Edge cropped only. Seeing was good but not great. FWHM for the combined 30 sub stack (over 2 nights) is 2.0 arcsec.
50% resolution:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/162135259/original
Cheers, Marcus
EDIT 22/12: BTW, I found out that Google Chrome wasn't rendering this image properly because it was a greyscale image (Profile in PS: "Working Gray - Dot Gain 20%"). Converting it to RGB (embedding an sRGB colour profile into the image) works around the problem so it will now render correctly in Chrome