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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Terrific images Nik. The Tarantula area really looks great with a widefield view.
You must have stayed up late to catch the Tarantula. Its really only now just rising.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg
I did stay up late for that one to begin with then went to bed
The helix I started at 8 pm and finished that up at midnight then started on tarantula around 1 am (school holidays so had more time) I set up the asiair to finish after 3 hours then it returns to home position and switches itself off. I got up after 4 and went outside and covered the scope with a bbq cover till the morning. I think in total got 4 hours sleep.
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Originally Posted by AdamJL
These are both fantastic!!
The core of that Tarantula looks perfect. Did you stack multiple exposure times to get that core exposed correctly, or just one exposure time?
And the Helix is amazing. That is so hard to shoot!!
You need to give an image processing tutorial, please. I use that same filter and can't get anything like that Tarantula image. And your stars aren't blue or red in the Helix?! Seriously, please give a tutorial  Join the ranks of YouTubers sharing knowledge!! |
Hahaha thanks Adam that Helix needs lots and lots of hours but as it passes the meridian near my place the city is towards the west so the city lights don't do it justice. I need consecutive nights to do this target justice. I will work out how to do a processing video just not with the amount of work in lockdown currently
for the Tarantula core I did it selectively each stretch, then a layer mask to paint over the core, further stretch then another layer mask and paint over this way the core is balanced, you can then feather the details in to balance it all out.