Helix

spearo (Frank) · #1 01-09-2006, 05:31 AM

Hello/morning

just finished taking and processing this. one single shot (for some reason the MANY othewr shots i took at shorter exposure turned out not so great...

20 min autoguided with ok-ish result is a record for me.

cheers
frank

Robby · #2 01-09-2006, 05:39 AM

Very nice Frank. I really do like the results I've seen from the 20Da
Cheers

spearo (Frank) · #3 01-09-2006, 05:43 AM

Thanks
it's a great camera there's no doubt about it
cheers
frank

h0ughy (David) · #4 01-09-2006, 07:21 AM

wow great image! well done. how long were the others?

Lester · #5 01-09-2006, 07:41 AM

Hi Frank,

very nice Helix.

Striker (Tony) · #6 01-09-2006, 10:17 AM

This target is not as easy to image as I first thought...you should have seen my raw files...they look nothing special.

This is 1 of my single Raw files looks like at 4 minutes of the helix.....but times that by 20 exposures stacked.

spearo (Frank) · #7 01-09-2006, 11:38 AM

Hi Guys,
thanks for the feedback.
I've had a couple hours of sleep not so I'm back to my abnormal self again...
Houghy: the other ones were a series of 8 minutes shots and a series of 10 minutes shots.
Tony: thanks for sample, actually that helps a lot because most of my other shots look similar to that, there may be hope in them yet. I'll try to process them a bit better and see if I can select and stack a few. I'm afraid I probably wasnt doing the processing at 100% last night/this morning cuz I was so tired but I was sooo keen to have a look!
I'll be away a couple of days too so wont be able to reply but will be back Sunday me thinks.
I'll try to repost Monday (possibly Sunday) if I can process the other images.
I've experimented last night with all my shots being without "in-camera" noise reduction so i could get more and then try my hand at subtracting a dark frame (i've taken a dark at end of each series to match temperature and iso/duration of exposure.
thanks again
frank

RB (Andrew) · #8 01-09-2006, 11:44 AM

20 minute single shot.......

It's already a beautiful image.

I can't imagine how good it will look if you add more.

Hurry up and come back, I can't wait till sunday/monday Frank.....

spearo (Frank) · #9 03-09-2006, 11:42 AM

Thanks Andrew,
that was the only long frame I shot (a record exposure time for me)
I think I'll be targetting M42, Flame and Horsehead this month mostly
frank

rogerg (Roger) · #10 03-09-2006, 02:00 PM

Frank, that's a very nice result. Good contrast and vibrant colours, I really like it. Congrats.

Roger.

tornado33 · #11 03-09-2006, 02:41 PM

Thats a lovely shot especially for a single long exposure.
Scott

spearo (Frank) · #12 03-09-2006, 06:12 PM

Thanks everyone
frank