Last night was a lovely night here in the hills. Seeing was as usual scratchy with highh level wind blowing over the top of the mountains.
I decided I would give tarantula nebula a bit of a go. I thought in the past I have always managed to burn out the core so thought I would use a range of exposures to blend the core properly. I took a series of 1 minute, 5 minute and a few 10 minute exposures for this process.
When I finally looked at the exposures I was a little surprised that the 1 minute exposures had still managed to burn the core so it looks like I will need some shorter exposures for the core.
I have included the total combined image and the 1 minute exposure combined stack to show the burnt core. No processing was carried out on the 1 min exposure except the stacking and combining.
Takahashi FSQ106ED at f5, QHY9 with QHY RGB Filters.
Hi res image:
http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/displayi...256&fullsize=1 (1.5MB)
Thanks for looking.