[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by Virgs

That is extremely impressive

Thank you

Originally Posted by Ric

Blimey, that's a ripper Rolf.

Your work never fails to impress.

Cheers

Thanks very much Ric!

Originally Posted by rogerg

Love your tract of imaging something so different, great stuff.

And to top it off you've done this with a ToUCam at 30.5s exposures! That shows up those of us with CCD's doesn't it ... "get off your ass and do something interesting..." I hear the back of my brain saying.

Inspirational.

Thanks for your kind words Roger, glad you liked it. It is exiting to image these things that are off the beaten path

Originally Posted by Ken Crawford

Congrats on a fine result - it is always fun to push your equipment and processing to dig out such fine details.

Thank you very much Ken, indeed it is good fun to push the equipment to the edge.

Originally Posted by duncan

Hi Rolf,

Just wondering what programs you used with the Toucam and how much gain,gamma etc. you used?
Cheers,
Duncan

Hi Duncan, I use K3CCDCapture with brightness usually set to max, gamma 50% and then I adjust the gain to suit. Of course with more gain comes more noise so I try to keep it as low as possible, but it depends on the subject.
I do stacking in Registax 5 and my processing in PixInsight LE (love the DBE feature) and then fine tuning in Photoshop CS2.

Originally Posted by Octane

Rolf,

Just like each image you've posted in recent times, this is fantastic. I can't believe how much detail you've managed to capture using such short exposures and what essentially amounts to a web cam.

You should be well chuffed.

Well done!

H

Thank you very much Humayun. I see you're off to NZ, enjoy your trip!
Looking forward to see what you can do with your new CCD once you're back