8 hrs Ha + 4 hrs O3 for now with FSQ106 + PL16803 combo. 30min exposures. My first go at BiColor (R= Ha, G= O3, B= O3) with very little processing other than curves and saturation. Lack of O3 exposures ruins it a bit but overall quite happy
A nice image. Perhaps a bit too colourful and a tad oversharpened for my taste but it looks good.
Greg.
With you Greg. Hopefully some additional O3 will reduce the need to push the channels. No sharpening procedure was applied but I do find it sharper as well after uploading and reducing the size through photoshop compared to the original.
Thanks Mike , yes the area just asks me to go for a mosaic but the forecast says good luck with that
Oh yeah it's bovine faeces...I'm going stir crazy from lack of sky time the really annoying thing in Canberra lately is the number of nearly clear nights we have had recently, probably ok for visual by providing holes to look through but essentially crappola for imaging with lots of high cloud and haze
With you Greg. Hopefully some additional O3 will reduce the need to push the channels. No sharpening procedure was applied but I do find it sharper as well after uploading and reducing the size through photoshop compared to the original.
I looked again and I guess it was the tiny stars that at first looked like they may have been sharpened. But you just got tiny stars - which is a good thing!
Really good Raki, yes it's a great area, if only I could find it! Are there any DSOs nearby that I could use as reference to find? Or just simple coordinates?
Really good Raki, yes it's a great area, if only I could find it! Are there any DSOs nearby that I could use as reference to find? Or just simple coordinates?
Really good Raki, yes it's a great area, if only I could find it! Are there any DSOs nearby that I could use as reference to find? Or just simple coordinates?
Check here. Couple of NGC objects around as reference.
Well done Raki. I like the colour and the huge field of view. Having done just a small part of this recently too I would have really liked this field of view too. It is such an interesting and intriguing area. Perhaps it would be nicer to have a slightly bigger resolution image to view. At the largest resolution it appears to be about 2000 pixels wide by the same height. Maybe at 2500 it would just give that extra floating through space feel.
How many FSQs do you have? 
the really annoying thing in Canberra lately is the number of nearly clear nights we have had recently, probably ok for visual by providing holes to look through but essentially crappola for imaging with lots of high cloud and haze 
life is good.
