Had a go at the Large Magellan Cloud with the 300d zoomed out, guided on lxd55 mount sorry I cant find the exposure time. I cropped a little off the right of the photo to minimise the amp glow effect.
Alex
Dave (I presume or do you prefer David) I only get to use my wifes computer during visits with my daughter, therefore I dont get time to develope my processing sckills. If you would take the time to work on any of my captures I would be delighted.
alex
Dave, Davo, David, I do not mind. I am learning also, so where i do not have access to tracking yet for my dob, i love to learn processing with great image captures.
Here is a quick run thru of your image in a program called neat image, it tries to detect noise and then removes it. I have just done a default setting, so a little more care on my behalf will make sure no detail is lost.
Thanks for having a go David. I think I can see the Big Spider's legs.
I too have a large dob (Bintel 300mm or 12 inch) and the views thru it are really very good. I long to have it on a equatorial mount and do fotos. We are building a fork equatorial for it but its taking ages and because of the changes during construction it is starting to look ugly even for a proto type... but looking at the prices of good equatorials that will carry the weight I cant see any other way than building one out of scrap.. the next one should be of a commercial standard we hope. However the fotos I get using the little 80 x 400 ar are very satisfying and the short f/l makes tracking less demanding..
alex
I hope to have my dob based motorized before the end of october via my laptop. I can then start to see how well it will image, and then look at a eq6.
I have had a few plays with your orion shots, not much extra to do to that excellent blue orion. The red one i cleaned up a touch. Tried to play in astra image, into red, green and blue and then combining, but didn't seem to do too much - lots of stuff for me to learn here.
I know i said it before, but i really like that blue one.
I had a look at orion last night and it is really spectacular. Lovely night down here in tasmania.
Got some mars pictures and as happy with the result.
I think it was blue cause of the prescence of the Moon. I will be interested to hear how a motor set up on a dob goes... and mount wise Losmandy Titan with all the scopes I own on it experiencing only fraction of second error (if any at all)... saw a mount on the web...$100,000-00 can you believe that.
Here is the OTA I built for a 235 mm x 1800 fl reflector which I hope to instal a 12 inch mirror, this unit had a large fork mount with a 6 foot diameter polar disk.. it is this mount we are reconstructing.
alex,
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