hi guys,
since getting back into astrophotography this year, i've pretty much been concentrating on saturn and the moon. i haven't given the (new) camera a go at anything else. whilst i have somewhat of a handle on processing planetary images (considering its been a couple of months) i really am at square one on the 'deep space stuff'. to be honest i've read a few articles trying to understand DSS, darks and flats etc. I now think i understand the purpose of darks, although i'm haven't quite got my head around flats. hopefully i get there soon.
i was out checking for aurora activity last night down in flinders vic (didn't eventuate) and decided to give the canon 600d a work out with its standard lens (as opposed to the 12" dob). i had some ok seeing (in that it was dark) when the cloud wasn't around. i actually think i learnt more about how to use the camera settings last night than i have with hours looking at the planets. Noise is now makes a lot more sense to me
and im hanging to get back out there with my new found understanding and aim the scope at saturn.
anyway here is scorpius, canon 600d, 25 sec, iso 2500, the picture is unprocessed. I had a crack at DSS (1st time) and i didn't have any luck in it stacking a collection of 10 similar images. I had a play around in photoshop but couldn't really bring out the clouds more without turning space unblack.
cheers
rusty
ps probably go to flickr, the file is so small you cant see anything on here!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8033665...in/photostream