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Originally Posted by graham.hobart
Had some friends over and cooked a nice roast, so was points up when the sky cleared! (Honey just going outside to check the sky etc!)
Here-my friends, and especially to you Adam, is the pig in lipstick Rosette! With home modded Canon 450D+ CLS CCD filter, iso 1000, three minute lights x 10 (clouds again spoilt the rest) plus flats and darks.
For those who don't know- the pig in question is a cheap 8" reflector with a bright red moonlite focuser.
This is my first (shared) Rosette so am inordinately proud of it-having had a go several times before and not getting it right.
Stacked in DSS and tweaked in StarTools and Paint.Net.
Cheers
Graham  |
That's a wicked image Graham! Easily your most promising data to date!
Small tip again. You forgot rule #1 before your start processing which is getting rid of stacking artifacts around the borders of the image (keep following tutorial #1 about preparing your data for processing). You'll find all the automation will produce much better results without such artificial data in your image - the green fuzz should disappear and the automated stretching will yield much better results.
You might also want to use to Lens module if you don't have a field flattener to fix the star elongation. Or if you stars are of a high enough resolution (can be problematic with a wide field like this) you could use the Repair module to fix them up.
There's heaps of intricate detail that I was able to recover, even from the JPEG.
Brilliant data!
Cheers,