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First ...I was losing my posts yesterday and had to retype on three occasions. I left out one important point.
The last image is perhaps where I would like to be but if you examine the edges you can see the noise is over the top, certainly it was very disappointing having done so much to process the image...the fact I was working without the data I needed made no difference and I guess seeing that noise left me disolussioned but I fell back on the fact that these exposures were at ridiculous gain and I did not take dark but rather than give up I worked to make the best of it and felt happy about one and two and realised if I do things right I could get something next time with lots of nebulosity like three and that dark and correct gain are things I can look at to improve.
The recent Lagoon photo was getting something out of nothing, framing was wrong, the guiding that I was excited about did not work even after passing all tests on trial runs, I lost maybe half my data to trailing or cloud. I near froze and yet nothing to write home about...
When the stack arrived two thirds of the frame was pure noise ...the whole experience left me feeling like I should give it all away..but even though the image is cropped colour is odd etc I really am happy with that image because it told me next time or that time at some point in the future where I do everything by the book, auto guide is working, long exposures at correct gain, dark, flats and dark flats and bias, on a clear dark night and I have the sofeware under my belt ..then and only then should I critise myself but in the time between play the cards that I have been dealt.
It is not easy for someone who was strong, very athletic, motivated and used to being the best at whatever I took on to accept being in effect cripple, weak and I suppose old my self image had to change or I could only give up and die...but I insist on moving forward and although probably thought of as an old incompetent fool by some I only care about doing the best I can with what I have...for me any result is going to be past the folk who have given up and gone to the old peoples home to await death...no doubt I will die at the scope snap frozen and preserved for if they ever find me.
Alex
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