My Rose

[Meru (Michael)]

Hello forum!

A little late given how quick everyone is to image the eastern horizon these days but here's a 1 hour rough n dirty attempt at the rose nebula. Managed to frame it nicely I think thanks to the reducer I actually had planned a solid 6 hours on it but most my subs went to s&*t for one reason or another while I slept grrrr!!!! Oh wells thats the nature of this game

Mount: NEQ6
Imaging Train: Orion 80ED - CCDT67 Reducer - OAG - FW - QHY9M
Guiding: Lodestar used with a TSOAG9, 3sec guiding
Ha - 1200sec * 3 Subs
Image processing: Captured in Maxim 5, Stacked in DSS, Edited in Startools, Slight touch up in Photoshop CS6

I was quite surprised how much detail and little noise I got given three subs for a total of 1 hr. The reducer works like magic on refractors, though not many targets that require a 80ED working at 400mm! As always any constructive criticism (abusive is also fine I suppose ) is appreciated

Clear skies!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Man Alive I'm impressed, have you done any noise reduction at all?

Jo

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

That is awesome mate, you have done a terrific job with it. I shot this lastnight but could only do 60sec exp, damn equipment.. Are you planning on adding colour to it?

Sorry for the lack of abuse, I just couldn't do it....

[Meru (Michael)]

Thanks Jo
Yup there is dark subtraction (3 subs are relatively noisy so need to get all the help I can!) using 12 dark frames. I also binned the image ~2x2 and lastly used the noise reducer in Startools. I honestly spent about 20-30min from stacking to posting, Startools is super duper turbo amazing

Haha Andrew!! Thanks for letting me off easy thank you, how come you could only get 60sec? I am planning on doing a HOS image but far too tired to image last few days I feel like I have let down my 'family' that is my equipment and stars