its been a while since i put up an image, the weather has been much what you expect in a southern victoria winter.... mostly cloudy
the pics here are in a somewhat unfinished state as i hope to get more data, that wont happen for a couple of weeks with the moon back so here tis
first image. the helix, it thought i had done pretty well with the outer neb extension til i saw the effort by marcus, i will try to add a few more hours and see if i can stretch it that hard, i could stretch this a little more but at the expense of being overwhelmed by noise. currently at 290 min at 10 min exposures.
Second image, yet another rendition of dave and barbs nebula, the Ha came out lipstick pink, i changed it to a redder version, although now ive seen another pink one maybee thats how it really is. this was a complete cow to process, i found the insane number of stars overwhelming and getting the color just right
this one 180 mins again at 10 min exposures i pushed it fairly hard so its a little grainy, even through the artifacts
third image and fourth, M16 sorry about the jpeginess, but thats 200kb, this one 270 min also at 10 min exposures. i can go 20 min but i find stars over mag 6 completely blown out when processing and looking very unnatural. i think the focus was just a tiny bit out, this scope seems very sensitive to temp changes... more attention in the future.
the last deep sky image ngc 253 100 min. i would like more resolution , but 5 inches of scope wont dish it up unless i go mono, ive spent enough on the gear for now so not sure what extra time would do for this image
lastly a face to the name.
cheers
clive