Last night I tried to use my planetary camera for deep sky imaging, I picked the easiest target, the trapezium and surronding nebulosity. I figured I should make my first deep sky image as easy as possible :-)
No filters, and the slowest video mode I could set - one frame per second.
Prime focus, f/5.5 and focal length 1800mm.
This is a stack of 500 frames, with some dark drame subtraction etc, but there's clearly some artifacts still present. Not too bad considering the camera is not cooled.
i have now seen it all.....this is all very sad......
see weather gods, this is what bad seeing can do to great planet imagers.........yes that is right...drive him to....i can't say it.....yes ..... it is very difficult to mouth that dirty word.........DSO
there i said it!!
next those weather gods will drive him to look through an eyepiece .............dear god no!
Nicely done Anthony! You should take some shorter exposures to reveal the trap stars better without overexposing them, and use layer masking in photoshop to merge the layers together.
Nicely done Anthony! You should take some shorter exposures to reveal the trap stars better without overexposing them, and use layer masking in photoshop to merge the layers together.
Nice work!
I thought about doing that, but it sounded too much like serious work, not something for a spur of the moment shot :-)
I would like to see the trap at the same conditions you use for planets. Should seperate all the component stars with ease.
Bert
Sure does, I've looked at it but it would be hard to see any nebulosity. If I was just after the stars then I can *just* fit the trapezium into the FOV with the 5x powermate in there as well...
) it became easy to use.
