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Originally Posted by Crater101
Mate, not too shabby at all, although where you found the clear patch in the sky to achieve this is beyond me. No Cloud? Some people have all the luck.
How did you process the image? Photoshop? Gimp? I'm curious as to if you used any noise reduction.
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I opened the RAW in PS and changed the black and something else, maybe a little change in exposure/contrast and small amount of clarity, nothing else much, saved it and cropped the smaller straight through camera image.,More than 2 minutes ago in lightroom or PS and I don't remember what I've touched. I don't really do noise reduction, I tend to blur images too much.
I'm really not good with these programs either, my son is good but I'm a useless old twit.
We had a beautiful day of sunshine Monday (9c all day, winter high here) and a beautiful clear night if not cold.
Yesterday cold, wet and miserable all day with a 6 degree high. I assumed since it was -5 Monday night we'd get a beautiful Tuesday and quite shocked to wake up to wet miserable day. Today however is clear again.
If I didn't have a big hole where my mount is meant to sit I'd take a decent mount and scope out tonight though the moonrise will be a little late for me to want to stand out and imitate a brass monkey. I am going to find gloves, I thought my fingernails were going to explode after coming in from the cold and putting my hands in cold tap water, it was too hot for them.
I may get my Astro-trac out while the moonrise is late and play with the Milky Way if clear skies persist, depending on how much headache medication I've taken by that time, I'm about to start now with the strong stuff (MS Contin).
I hope you have a beautiful clear day today mate!
I did find the culprit of the slight focus problem, it was actually camera shake which I shouldn't get in mirror up mode using an intervalometer but also the rotating base on top of my tripod below the 25Kg capacity Cambo gear head, it can't hold it's locked position. It's centre is only very soft grade of alloy and the pointed locking pin just tears it out and the thing rotates with ease when locked, not good, it's in pieces at the moment and I may head up to the shed and turn a new rotating centre out of steel that won't have the locking pin tear through it. If I score identical spaced marks down it I can have recesses for the pin to lock and not move.
Similar to this one, not camera plate lock or this brand, same concept:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005223199551.html