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Old 25-02-2010, 11:05 PM
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Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)
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Another QHY-9 first light

Well, I was too excited to get out there and try my new baby out - so...

1) No polar alignment whatsoever - apart from rough compass-augmented plonking.

2) PHD straining to keep the scope pointed somewhere near the target.

3) Only single 30 sec frames each of RGB, 45 on Luminance at -20 (only 38% cooler power). Will do another at -25 or so soon.

4) Sky-90's flattener hasn't arrived yet - so comets in the corners.

5) Rough focus - she'll be right!

Could I care? NO! I have COLOUR man! COLOUR!! Woohoo! This is my first combined colour image, and I'm tickled puce!

6) Rough processing (alignment and combining) in Maxim and re-sizing to 1024 px in Photoshop. No colour adjustment at all. As she comes. Quick 'n dirty with no regard to noise control or zone editing. LOL!

Here it is - no cropping, so all the corner nasties of the Sky-90 are left for your viewing pleasure. Please, please arrive flattener!!
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Last edited by Omaroo; 26-02-2010 at 08:11 AM.
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