[ejcruz (Eddie)]

Originally Posted by dpastern

Thanks for the link Eddie - price looks not too bad. I don't know much about CCD imagers yet, so will need to read up more and compare to see how it stacks against the competitors. It'd be a long term purchase anyways, not in the next X amount of months, especially if my current job goes South.

Dave

When I did my research on 8300 chip QHY was maybe still is the best priced.

Originally Posted by Rhino1980

Stunning!

Thank you, I've reprocessed feel it's much better.

Originally Posted by rat156

Looks great, but I think you've clipped the black point in the image. Adjust it to about 90%K in PS, that usually give a nice result. Also might have just pushed the data a little bit too far and have lost some contrast in the middle of the lagoon in favour of the edges, stars might be saturated as well (they all look very white).

Do you have "The Zone system" book from Wodaski? There are some great processing tips in that.

Other than those minor processing things, the image is tops, nice pinpoint stars, smooth nebulosity.

Cheers
Stuart

Thanks Stuart very good points, unfortunately I don't have Wodaski book must look into that. I've reprocessed as suggested, I really must learn more about PS, here is the reprocessed image.
http://ejcruz.smugmug.com/photos/532742725_JhmcD-X3.jpg

Cheers
Eddie