At last a guided DS image: M8

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

Finally obtained all the right gear. Yesterday was the first time EVER I managed to get the guiding to work. Unable to contain my joy when I saw all the stars remain round after 5mins of exposure. Yeeeeesss! This is a big milestone for me and its from my suburban Sydney backyard!! If this is a dream I don't want to wake up. Bring them on DSOs!!

ED80 prime focus
canon 400D modified ISO800
EQ5 mount
WO 480mm refractor as guidescope
Philips900nc as guide cam
PhD
IDAS LPS filter
2 images of 4 & 5mins (total 9mins)stacked with darks in DSS

[bloodhound31]

Very nice Vincent, you are on your way.

Amazing what these consumer grade DSLR's can do hey?

Baz.

[h0ughy (David)]

Well done vincent

[M54 (Molly)]

Wow, that's so impressive!
Congrat's on your first image.
I know nothing of astrophotography but I feel your excitement.
I'd certainly be over the moon if I could take a pic like that.
Maybe one day, when I win tattslotto.

Tell me cookie, is that correct? A 480mm refractor as a guidescope???
Is that diameter? Sounds whopping!

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

Originally Posted by M54

Wow, that's so impressive!
Congrat's on your first image.
I know nothing of astrophotography but I feel your excitement.
I'd certainly be over the moon if I could take a pic like that.
Maybe one day, when I win tattslotto.

Tell me cookie, is that correct? A 480mm refractor as a guidescope???
Is that diameter? Sounds whopping!

Thanks Molly for sharing my excitement. It was a 3" refractor with 480mm focal length.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Well done vincent

Thanks David

Originally Posted by bloodhound31

Very nice Vincent, you are on your way.

Amazing what these consumer grade DSLR's can do hey?

Baz.

Thanks Baz

[Tamtarn]

Great to hear you have your guiding up and running Vincent, I know how we felt with our first guided image.
You have some good detail in this image. Well done.

The background does look a little green on our monitors, maybe some of this is due to area light pollution and there appears to be coma present for if you look at the stars in the corners of the image they are all pointing away from the center.
We had this when we were using our 8" Newt and corrected the problem with an MPCC coma corrector.
Hope the above comments help.

David

[Matty P (Matt)]

That is great news Vincent and a very nice image. Your images will really start to improve now that you have guiding up and running.

Like what David has said the background is a little too green. Watch the levels and make sure that they are balanced.

Great colours and great detail for only 9 minutes of exposures. Well done.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Vince ! Dewd ! Great shot !!!!
thanks

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nicely done

[Alchemy (Clive)]

well done , the first of many i suspect:thumbsu p:

[sheeny (Al)]

Well done! What a great start!

Al.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Superb first picture! Very nice details in there. Well done.

[TrevorW]

Good one Vincent now your really hooked !!!

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Great to hear you have your guiding up and running Vincent, I know how we felt with our first guided image.
You have some good detail in this image. Well done.

The background does look a little green on our monitors, maybe some of this is due to area light pollution and there appears to be coma present for if you look at the stars in the corners of the image they are all pointing away from the center.
We had this when we were using our 8" Newt and corrected the problem with an MPCC coma corrector.
Hope the above comments help.

David

Thanks everyone for your encouragements & comments. Yes David I should look into the coma corrector further down the track or heavily cropping my images. But for now I am pretty happy to push on with the current setup

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Fabulous effort there Vincent! Well guided and processed. Well done!

[justin8571 (Justin)]

Hello Vincent,

for a first guided image that is truly amazing, it looks like you've been imaging for years. Keep up the good work and have fun.

Justin

www.sussexastroimaging.co.uk

[jase (Jason)]

Great work Vincent. Now you've conquered this obstacle, its onward and upward from here. Looking forward to seeing your progress. Thanks for sharing and well done.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Great effort for just 9mins.
The guiding is working nicely by the looks of it too.
Bit of star elongation at the edges - probably due to the ED80 rather than the guiding. Flattener/Reducer down the track?
Couple of dust motes to the right of the nebula could be sorted out by taking some Flats - easy fix.
We are all greedy consumers of this stuff on IIS Vincent , so more please!!


Doug

[alan meehan (Alan)]

Hi Vincent very nice shot mate well done,imaging is such good fun when you start to get it right .
cheers Alan

[spearo (Frank)]

Well done Vincent!
Its very exciting when autoguiding stars to work well.
No end to what you can achieve now!
cheers
frank