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Old 30-12-2005, 03:27 PM
beren
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Adventures in Imaging

Metaphorically speaking I feel a little like Columbus sighting the New World.....overwhelmed , excited , pleased ..... this week with some forays in image capture and processing using Image plus and the equipment I have.Mon and Tues night I experimented with capturing Images in a automated fashion in Jpeg format of Flame&HH/M45, conditions were pretty haphazard with wind preventing good guiding/polar aligning and high level thin cloud but persevered.Wednesday night looked promising after a clear day but by evening both cloud and wind had moved in {check the radar image for Perth that night }but I had everything ready to go which was fortunate because i had a hour and half window of opportunity where I took for the first time 20 RAW images of the HH region and M42 . I was able to get the scope to guide {through the LX with the Orion 80mm as imager}with the conditons using Guidedog and the LPI , even though all 20 images where 170sec everything worked well and was stoked how smoothly everything went. Having all the exposures and camera functions controlled from the laptop is pretty cool , a vast improvment over a stop watch and camera remote control.Anyway capture is the tip of the iceberg , the processing bit other then a little tweaking in PS is a little overwhelming but using the Images plus vid tutorials is pretty nifty.With my untrained eye at the moment I dont really see any great improvement over using RAW files over fine JPEG from the D70 camera nor did I see a greater degree of processing latitude . With some more experiance I might , anyway heres M45 from a JPEG colection and M42 from RAW.

Ps: noticed a lot of decent shooting star action this week , all have been very bright, minimal trains and probarly 100degrees of arc with no particular radiant source
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