[planecrazy (Jamie)]

Hi all,

Bit of a closest viewer of this forum and the ability of the members who post here is fantastic.

Had an opportunity a couple of weeks ago to spend a fantastic evening at Stockport Observatory with some fellow ASSA members.

I just thought I would post my first real attempt at a layered image.
All my images to date have been comprised of a single exposure length. This is the first with multiple exposure times.

The evening was not intended as a imaging session; I was just out practicing my alignment and mucking around with guiding settings; so no dark, or bias frames were taken.

My setup is a Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80 as the primary scope.
Camera is a standard Canon EOS 700D. Mount Skywatcher HEQ5. Guide scope is an Orion short 80mm and the guide camera is the Starshoot Autoguider.
Image is comprised of:
Qty 10 600 sec ISO 800
Qty 5 180 sec ISO 800
Qty 1 15 sec ISO 800

Images were stacked using CCDstack 2 and processing done in Photoshop.

I know the image still needs work, but given the lack of calibration files I feel I have pushed as far as I dare. Has been a really good exercise in processing.

Regards,

Jamie