Eagle - first attempt

[taxman (Matt)]

Inspired (okay, I copied ) by JJJNettie's first shot of m16 posted a week or two ago, I had a crack of my own.

Mind you, at my level of (in)experience, pretty much everything is my first go

Best 80% of 120x75 sec calibrated (darks & flats) shots through an Atik 314E and FS60CB on an unguided EM11. Levels and curves in GIMP.

Any comments, criticism and suggestions gratefully accepted...

[TrevorW]

Great first attempt
what did you use to stack
find something better than GIMP
try IRIS it's free

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

awwww, thanks, glad it got you motivated to have a go yourself.
You've done a great job of it too.
You may need to back off with the levels, the background is a wee bit too dark and you're missing out on valuable data.

[Iceaxe (Joe)]

Matt
looks good
Joe

[taxman (Matt)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

awwww, thanks, glad it got you motivated to have a go yourself.
You've done a great job of it too.
You may need to back off with the levels, the background is a wee bit too dark and you're missing out on valuable data.

Thanks, JJJ...

I see what you mean about levels - I tend to treat my computer like a drunk monkey with a power tool sometimes. I couldn't put my finger on what wasn't quite right - It's funny how it often takes someone else to see what is wrong.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Great first attempt
what did you use to stack
find something better than GIMP
try IRIS it's free

I use Deep Sky Stacker to calibrate, stack, and align RGB. Also, I know GIMP is probably not the best, but I have an upgrade to Photoshop (hopefully) coming around tax time and I wanted to use something with a similar interface so my inner drunk monkey with flippers for hands would not get confused...

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Excellent Matt

Cheers Petra d.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

A couple more freebie image processing programs you might be interested in.
Irfanview
and
Image Analyzer