Hi,
Last night was the first time in two months I have had my scope out basically due to the prolonged wet season on the sunshine coast. I shot these using my W/O Flt 110 and Canon 400d at ISO 800. It was a great night just to be out there. All guided with PHD and stacked in DSS and photoshop.
1. Omega Centauri - This is a stack of a single 2,3,4,and 7 min shot.
2. Omega Centauri - I layered a single 2min on top of single 7 min and blurrred out centre so to speak to get more outside stars while hopefully keeping core stars resolved.
3. Eta Carina - 8 x 4 min 40 sec lights with 5 darks
4. M 104 cropped - 4 x 7 min 40 sec lights with 3 darks
5. Leo Triplet - 3 x 8 min lights and 3 darks
You know the saying, "Pictures....or it never happened"
Glad you have the pictures to prove that we did actually have clear skies. It's been a long time between drinks.
I think you've done a great job to get all these in one night.
Well done!
That's making up for lost time!
I agree with Marc, your second version of Omega is very nice.
Great going Mark - you had better luck with weather than we did in Brissy by the looks of it! Like Jeanette says, you've got great proof a night well spent prowling.
I saw you ask in Mike's thread about the blues in his Omega. I think your data has got a lot in it but a bit of a cololur cast from lights and sky. Hope you don't mind me having tweaked the green and reds back a tad and blues up a little along with some more saturation and a bit of masked saturation reduction to tame the background noise. Most cameras have some colour bias and unless you have a truely dark sky there is always some colour cast to combat. Its not easy getting the colour cal right unless you have a galaxy core or G2V star to go by sometimes.
(not saying mine's perfect mind you - just another interpretation....)
No problems Rob. I read somewhere that the final image is about 90% processing so I think I have about 85% to go on my learning curve. Thanks for the advice.
