[Hagar (Doug)]

Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

Hi Doug,

A very good image still!

Did you sell the QHY9?

Regards,

Gray.

Hi Gray, Thanks Mate, No I haven't sold the 9 and don't intend to. I bought the 10 so I have a OSC with reasonable resolving power which will allow me an image during the shorter summer nights. Work is a problem making imaging time short. I will continue to use both.

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Very similar to 6744, it takes a ridiculous amount of data to get much from it, even then it tends to be monochromatic.

Tough work, but we like a challenge , don't we.

Thanks Clive but it does give me something to work on.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Not bad Doug. NGC 300 is quite a tough one to do well as it has a pretty low surface brightness but you are certainly off to a good start with this data.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve, Low surface brightness is an understatement. I can usually see my targets with a 30 sec exposure to frame it but this one was just visible at 30 sec and then only at 2X2.

Originally Posted by RickS

Was that taken under dark skies, Doug?

Hi Rick. Reasonably dark from my backyard.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great result Doug, the noise doesn't bother me really, it has a nice deep galactic look to it with a nice bright glow

Mike

Thanks Mike, still a way to go with this one just short on time and weather.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

thats because we are photon starved Mike.

great to see how that camera works - did you capture under images plus?

i see you have two different gradients in the image - one green and one red

Thanks David, The gradients are something I am yet to get to the bottom of. Seems to be something to do with the way these sony chips are read into the computer. Interesting but still a bit to work out.