Carina

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Hey guys, I haven't had much time for this hobby over the busy season, hence why I haven't been on the forum a lot lately, but I have found more time over the past couple of weeks, which is a great feeling!

I received my stepper motor kit, and managed to learn SGP. I must say, the autofocus routing is amazing. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to work as well as it did. I noticed the TOA-150 would drop out of focus quite quickly, which made it impossible to head inside whilst imaging. With the autofocus it stayed in focus the whole night:eyecup:

Rounds stars all the way in the corners too with the 67 Flattener, and my piece of cut drain pipe as a spacer!

I have imaged this one before, but I wanted to test everything on a bright easy target.

It's 5.5 hours at 600 seconds each with the QHY10

I know in my last image i burned out the stars when processing, I tried not to this time, still not good at using the star mask.....think they turned out ok though?



http://www.astrobin.com/full/239224/0/

[Rick Parrott]

Stunning! Well done!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Super scope and supeb results. Outstanding colors and details.

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Originally Posted by Rick Parrott

Stunning! Well done!

Thanks Rick.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Super scope and supeb results. Outstanding colors and details.

Thanks Marc

[Regulus (Trevor)]

A really lovely set of photos Erik. It must have been satisfying to finally get the time.
Well done.

Trevor

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Wow...nice Perhaps juuust a touch brownish looking but rather Davies-esque

Mike

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Nice wide field with crisp detail. Very nice Erik. To me the colours are a bit muted, but then I'm one of those people that always likes to crank up the saturation.

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Originally Posted by Regulus

A really lovely set of photos Erik. It must have been satisfying to finally get the time.
Well done.

Trevor

Thanks Trevor, yes it was amazing haha.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow...nice Perhaps juuust a touch brownish looking but rather Davies-esque

Mike

Cheers Mike, yes, haha you're right, a tad brown, how's the edited version for you Tried to pull as much brown out of the background as I could....

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice wide field with crisp detail. Very nice Erik. To me the colours are a bit muted, but then I'm one of those people that always likes to crank up the saturation.

Thanks Geoff, yeah now when I look at it I know what you mean, boosted the saturation, and pulled the brown out of the background. Still maybe a little to vibrant for me, but I'm undecided.

[gregbradley]

Nice images Erik. I like the drainpipe spacer. Bit of bush engineering that we sometimes have to do!

Greg.

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice detail, Erik! Vibrant is good

[Ru1s (Chris)]

Fantastic images Erik!

Glad to hear your getting some use out of that scope now

what program are you using to stack / process ?

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice images Erik. I like the drainpipe spacer. Bit of bush engineering that we sometimes have to do!

Greg.

Thanks Greg, yes, much cheaper option haha. I'll just paint it black and no one will ever know

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice detail, Erik! Vibrant is good

Thanks Rick, I know you like vibrant

Originally Posted by Ru1s

Fantastic images Erik!

Glad to hear your getting some use out of that scope now

what program are you using to stack / process ?

Cheers, I'm using PixInsight for stacking and processing.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Beautiful Erik love the details and the vibrancy

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Looking pretty good Erik!! I'm with Rick as far as vibrancy goes. Even your repro is too samon coloured IMO - so bring on the red!!

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Beautiful Erik love the details and the vibrancy

Thanks

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Looking pretty good Erik!! I'm with Rick as far as vibrancy goes. Even your repro is too samon coloured IMO - so bring on the red!!

Thanks Marc This repro is for you then Although now when I look back at the original, it is very pale... I think I ruined the star colours though
Erik