NGC 4945, Keep digging!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Trying to improve my PA resulted in taking a few test shots. It seems that I can get 30 secs now which is still pretty bad, but useable.

NGC 4945 was near were I was testing so I took a few quick subs and they looked quite yuk and noisy at ISO 8000 but they cleaned up surprisingly well after stacking 20. Always amazes me what you can find if you keep digging!

8" f5 newt, Sony a5100, 20x 30 second subs at ISO 8000.

Astrobin link Here.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers
Jo

[raymo]

Brilliant, Jo.
raymo

[chuckywiz (Ben)]

thats awesome.. nice shot.. id love to know how you clean it up soo much. im soo still in the learning process

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Awesome shot Jo! I've discovered a lot can be done with 30 second subs. Especially if you have a lot of them.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by raymo

Brilliant, Jo.
raymo

Thank you Raymo!

Originally Posted by chuckywiz

thats awesome.. nice shot.. id love to know how you clean it up soo much. im soo still in the learning process

Thanks,

Processing takes a lot of practice. I have been doing a lot of it for around 3 years now and am only just now feeling like I know where to start. I treat each image as pretty much as a process of elimination. Identify what in your image you don't want and find a way to get rid of it.

It is sometimes hard to know what 'good' looks like, but watching the masters in the Deep Sky section is the best way I have found to get a visual picture of what you are working towards.

If I can help in any way with a particular image of yours I would be happy to.

Cheers
Jo

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Awesome shot Jo! I've discovered a lot can be done with 30 second subs. Especially if you have a lot of them.

Thanks Kevin, glad you liked it. I have really enjoyed seeing your 30 second sub images. You have a very nice compilation.

Cheers
Jo

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

really nice result there Jo,

cheers

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Geez Jo, for only 10 minutes that's damned fine looking!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thanks very much Russel and Cam!

Cheers
Jo

[BruceG (Bruce)]

Very nice work Jo. Always good to see your work on these pages. Inspirational for me really. Anyways I'll stop there before you get too red faced. All in all I do very much look forward to seeing your work.
Cheers,
Bruce.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Wow Jo, that's a cracker

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by BruceG

Very nice work Jo. Always good to see your work on these pages. Inspirational for me really. Anyways I'll stop there before you get too red faced. All in all I do very much look forward to seeing your work.
Cheers,
Bruce.

Gee, thanks Bruce. Glad you liked it!

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Wow Jo, that's a cracker

Thank you Dunk!

Cheers
Jo