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Hola M104, I did my best not to image you!!
Hello everyone!
Well on Friday night I set up my scope all ready to image the Sombrero Galaxy. I decided to take my time and make sure that all was in order. Good boy Mario! However at the end of the night and then during processing I realised that there were a few things that I'd overlooked and they were:
1. I output jpegs instead of raws - aaghh!!
2. My guiding was off - aaghh!!
3. I forgot to put the white t-shirt material across the front of my scope when taking my flats - aaghh!!
4. The upstairs bathroom light does affect the images when it's switched on - aaghh!!
5. These are not easy to fix in processing - aaghh!!
Anyway, taking all that into consideration I've tried to salvage what I could from the hours I'd spent outside. The attached image is 12 x 5 min subs, ISO800. There's elongation in the stars as well as a light glow gradient in the image which I had trouble dealing with. The only software that seemed to handle the gradient well was StarTools, however as I'm still trialling it I couldn't save the image. But believe me when I say it looked grouse!!
Oh well, there's always next time!
Cheers,
Mario
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