Hi Guys, last night turned out pretty reasonable, but the clouds did roll in at about 1 am.
It took me ages to get a guide star, and wasted at least 45mins of good imaging time but I was determined to have a crack at this one, however only 5 frames into the run the clouds appeared.
So here we have a full widefield, and a half crop of the same image.
It was captured at 400 ISO, @ 7 min's each, through the Tak and modded 5D, auto guided with the WO 80mm FD, and the G11.
Processed in Image Plus, flats applied, and touched up a little in PS2.
Please feel free to comment either way, thanks for looking.
Thanks Guys, much appreciated, Yea I know where you are coming from Matty, I reckon I spent 45 minutes, up down, to the left, to the right, four times i had to slew back to the original coordinates as I lost it completely.
In the end I found the faintest little star, a thought, well, that is all Iv'e got and it seemed to lock on pretty good.
A lot of trial and error Paul, and a bit of determination to get it right, trust me, I have had many failures, and like I mentioned earlier, am only getting it all together with the help of all the good folk on IIS, many thanks for your comment.
Yes, yes...nice image, looks good blah, blah, blah ..... NOW can I have that telescope????
Mike
Go on Leon do a swap!! Mikes ready for a TAK...
Good widefield image of this Leon, colors are good etc...you are improving with every image... and this is no easy target to image....Have done 6 hours of this sucker and I am still battling noise etc...
Well done!..
Bloody shame Leon, this image has the hallmarks of something really good given a bit more data ... heres hoping you can get some more and complete it ... I cant wait
