Two From Last Night

[leon]

Hi Guys,

I have been a bit unsuccessful of late when it comes to the imaging game, tried my hand at some very faint objects over the past weeks, but unfortunatly they didn't turn out so well, I feel it might be the direction I'm imaging, across the city light pollution.

Anyway, I decided to have another go at the LMC, and Tarantula Neb, even though I was dodging clouds from about half way through the session.

Here we have 16 exposures of the Tarantula and 12 of the LMC, all at 400 ISO, and both at 2 minutes and 30 seconds each.

They were taken through the Tak and Canon 5D on the G11, and guided with PHD, through the WO 80mm FD, and Phillips Toucam, and later processed in Image Plus, with darks and flats and touched up in PS2.

I'm not over rapt in them, but I have always had some trouble with the LMC, please feel free to comment, either way.

These two images are the full wide field, un-cropped

Leon

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Great wide FOV Leon. Lots of intricate detail in these shots. Well done.

Peter

[rat156]

Hi Leon,

Great shots, but the colour is off. There's a long discussion about DSLR colours elsewhere here, but suffice to say it needs more red or less cyan.

Cheers
Stuart

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

I think they're a lot nicer than my recent efforts leon!

[Hagar (Doug)]

Nice images Leon. Detail and depth is great. The colour may well be off but that is what the camera see's. Keep up the nice work.

[Ric]

Lovely images Leon, the level of detail is wonderful.

As the others have mentioned the colour I'll leave that as I'm no expert in that field.

Cheers

[Tamtarn]

Really nice wide fields Leon. The second one is very good. Like the colour as it's what your camera is picking up and when you try and change it it never looks as good as with the data captured.

A little bit of extra colour can be added just to enhance what you already have in your data using either colour balance which you can enhance individual colours or just saturation

Just basically process the data your camera has captured and don't worry about changing it too much. Your images are looking good

[leon]

Thank guys, yep I know about the colour thing, and the lengthy discussion about how to fix that, but I'm no computer expert, and I would never have know the colour was wrong until that thread.

This is what my camera picks up at the time of imaging, and with some other objects the colour is very different with plenty of HA in the image, so I expect I will just take what I can get, until I'm rich and buy an SBIG.

Thanks for your comments

Leon