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Originally Posted by iceman

I'm amazed that you can get any images from the middle of the city!

Keep at it, Paul! btw is was raining last night? How did you even take this image?

This image was taken the previous Friday i think. Normally I wouldnt post it because of lack of subs and dew but given the current weather I am bored out of my tree astro-wise and just wanted to post something

Originally Posted by spearo

There are nights like these...
not a bad shot at the end of it all though!
a little bit of distortion of stars in the two top corners due to focal reducer?
I think you should be able to remove some of the background gradient and get a better contrast because the the centre looks prettty sharp just a bit washed out a tad maybe?

I often us a gaussian blur of a copy of the image in PS and remove that from the image before setting the black point
might be worth a try

cheers
frank

Thanks Frank,

Usually the TV reducer/flattener works well. On this night any guide star i chose was just a jumping squirming mess and I couldnt work out why. When I checked the lens it was competely beaded up with dew so maybe that was the problem, the layer of dew unflattened the flattener?

Originally Posted by Ric

It's a very tidy image Paul.

Considering you location in the middle of the city nakes this quite s remarkable image.

Cheers

Thanks Ric,

I am thinking of going narrowband Ha plus RGB, if that works then LP in the city will be a thing of the past

Originally Posted by renormalised

Nice shot, considering what you had to put up with!!.

Thanks Norm,

Normally I sneak my car onto the park and park next to a concrete practice pitch. I am close to the car and have good visibility of drunks coming in all directions. The location that night is popular with drunken school kids and i had to leave the car in the carpark. The drunks really worry me as I am scared they may take a fancy to all my gear....


Paul