Thanks everyone for your help and encouragement, i'm off to bed now post nightshift but just a few words before i go to the land of Nod...
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
Great first light Paul!
Do you keep a log of your settings?
I used to keep like a Recipe Book for different objects to refer back to.
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I'm only just starting so this sounds like a great ideam thanks jjjnettie
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Originally Posted by tonybarry
Have you read Massy & Quirk's book "Deep Sky Astrophotography" ? It gives a fairly good rundown on some aspects of using Photoshop to good effect.
Regards,
Tony Barry
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It's on my wish list
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Being a GStar I assume that the exposure times where short like frames per second so all I can suggest possibly you need a lot more frames stacked and guiding would help improve the image overall but a good first effort and as JJ said you'll only get better the more you do
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The weather conditions were a problem i started out in 128 integration with 150 frames untill i noticed that something was going wrong and i was loosing my image. It was dew forming on the glass to such an extant that i lost the picure!! I then deceided to reduce my capture to 50 frames each R G B and 20 frames for the dark. Inbetween filters i wiped down the glass to keep it clear (i dont have a dew controll system yet just a dew sheild. So this became my overriding limit for this imaging session.
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Originally Posted by lacad01
Just my 2c worth but agree with Trevor that more stacked frames will make a good difference and perhaps reduce the integration time when imaging something like M42 otherwise as you can see the core gets blown out severely. I don't own a GStar but a cctv camera which to all intents and purposes is the same as a GStar
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It was my first time with this system and you have confirmed what i thought that if I reduce the frame intergration then i can reduce the overexposure. I took some initial images without the 0.5 reducer (so C9.25 @ F10) and at 128 frame integration the trapizium was separate and clear.
Thanks Guys
