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Hi all, I'm going to put in my little bit. Firstly, as I stated in another thread, I have been a film astrophotographer for over 50 yrs. I was also
an industrial, wedding, and portrait photographer; so I can safely say that
I know my way around the subject. Having said all that, I am going to say that producing TOP quality astro images IS daunting. I have Michael
Covington's DSLR book, and numerous others, and am still struggling.
With the advent of digital, the joy of astro imaging has gone. More
time is now spent staring at monitors , trying to get your images to
look the way you want them to, instead of trying to reproduce what they
actually would look like if you had eyes that could see the colours in the
objects. Instead of enjoying time under the stars, many regard their
scopes and cameras as merely tools, and leave their computers to
operate them, while they are somewhere else.
I downloaded DSS and it corrupted my computer, so I had to do a system restore. No matter what I try I can't get any joy out of
registax. The end results look like they were painted by a child,
reasonably sharp at the edges, but no trace of detail[Saturn].
I'm just fed up
raymo
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