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Originally Posted by sil
good luck on adding to the image, you should be able to push it much more than that image , I was able to push a nice bright low noise shot with 24min of data in my astrobin gallery. Really pleased with even getting it and spent a bit of time tweaking my processing . Going to try to get an outing to add to mine this year, fantastic target, looking forward to seeing your results. |
Thanks sil, it all depends on the weather down here, the last few New Moon phases have been spoilt by cloud so maybe in a couple of weeks I'll get to take advantage with clear skies. One things for sure, to get the most out this object at such a low altitude, seeing and transparency have to be better than average.
Great effort with your low noise shot taken on just a tripod! Lucky you had f2.8 to gather those extra photons, mine was shot at f5.5 but stacking 453 three second subs must have given your computer a headache, it really did get rid of the noise. Were they shot at 3200 iso or higher?
Wallaroo, never been there but at 35 degrees south it would have placed Andromeda fairly low for you as well. I'm actually surprised this object doesn't get photographed more often by our members living in Queensland. I'd love to shoot it from there, especially the northern part.
Fortunately, being in the north, the Melbourne glow is behind me so the scope is pointing into basically dark skies.