So I am back in my holiday flat opposite Lismore Hospital and treatment is going very well all things considered
... but on Sunday night I had a go at capturing the Swan Nebula as I went home for the weekend
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I know I am always complaining but my imaging session was somewhat depressing
in so far as it went from thick cloud to thin cloud such that I ended up with less than an hour for the night..some Ha, some oxy, and some green was all I had to play with and not much of then either.. more experiments with wild gain and 30 second subs because yet another night where there was little point in being serious..I was sorting out other stuff in the observatory so I was not worried and just let it run to see if I ended up with anything...but the 80mm espirite and the zwo 2600 mm went well although the eq5 is still playing up badly and feels like it needs lubrication
as it is very stiff..but that must wait ...so today I went thru the mess and worked real hard to produce this image using it as an exercise to further investigate Star Tools and what tricks I could use to produce a result in Photo Shop
...this is perhaps the first image that I have ever submitted here that I expected will actually have benefited from the downsize which I hope will hide a few more problems..
. I included a huge crop to show the noise.
But I once would have just not bothered as the seeing was terrible and the subs were lucky that I have plenty of spare time on my hands while getting my treatment.
Thanks for looking
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alex