Hamburger GX

Sarge (Rod) · #1 10-02-2013, 04:09 PM

Cen A - NGC 5128
127ED and Canon 60D
9x120sec subs, ISO 800 with darks and bias taken in Melb on 8/2/13. Stacked in DSS and processed with Gimp.
Still trying to get a handle on Gimp, keep finding new controls each time I use it.

Clear skies

Rod

Larryp (Laurie) · #2 10-02-2013, 04:58 PM

Great image, Rod!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 10-02-2013, 06:50 PM

Nice work for such short subs.

Sarge (Rod) · #4 11-02-2013, 05:50 PM

Thanks Larry and JJJ. I really need to get more confidence (also known as patience

) in my guiding to allow longer subs. I'll hopefully be out again later this week, so will try letting it run a lot longer.

Clear skies

Rod

Bendy777 (Australia) · #5 13-02-2013, 10:58 AM

this is cool man! has it been cropped already? or was this your field of view through the scope?

scagman (John) · #6 13-02-2013, 11:39 AM

Hi Rod,

Thats looking good. Your stars look nice and round.
Looking forward to more.

Cheers

alistairsam · #7 13-02-2013, 01:13 PM

Hi Rod,

Looks like there's some nice detail in there. are you able to post a bigger pic?
This one's a bit too small to view details properly.

Alistair

Sarge (Rod) · #8 13-02-2013, 10:33 PM

Thanks Bendy, John and Alistair.

Bendy - no not cropped. I tried cropping in processing but it started to look too noisy - I need to do longer subs.

John - I pretty happy with my guiding, using an Orion 80 mm with PHD. I use Alignmaster and it is getting my alignment pretty close. Not game to go over 3 mins subs yet.

Alistair - sorry had to shrink it down to get it posted. I am looking for a "free" hosting site to show the full photo.

Clear skies

Rod

alexV · #9 11-03-2013, 03:32 PM

Rod how come stars don't show any color?

Thanks

Sarge (Rod) · #10 12-03-2013, 01:09 AM

Alex,
Hard to see the star colours in the reduced photo, but they are there.

Clear skies

Rod

alexV · #11 12-03-2013, 01:44 PM

i see.

I wish one day ill be able to take images like yours

Thank you

alistairsam · #12 12-03-2013, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarge

Alistair - sorry had to shrink it down to get it posted. I am looking for a "free" hosting site to show the full photo.

Clear skies

Rod

Hi Sarge,

have you tried astrobin? thats specifically for astro images, but few others are flickr, photobucket, dropbox, etc.
all are free.

Cheers

Sarge (Rod) · #13 12-03-2013, 10:10 PM

Thanks Allstair, I'm leaning toward astrobin

Clear skies

Rod

Screwdriverone (Chris) · #14 12-03-2013, 10:27 PM

Nice work Rod.

The field of view really gives it some depth and some punch.

Nicely processed too.

Well done mate!

Cheers

Chris