Over 9 hrs of M33

[guyroch]

I’ve been very busy lately working on my BackyardEOS project and I haven’t done much imaging or processing. I rented a cottage last weekend about 2 hours out of town and oh boy was I ever happy I decided to tear down the NEQ6 off the concrete pier and bring it along with the EON 120. The skies where clear both nights and I could see the horizon all around – I had a blast.

I took close to 10 hours of M33 with the CLS clip filter and about 4 hours of IC434. I did not get the chance to process IC434, but here is my first rendition of M33.

Critical comments are more than welcome, I still struggle when it comes to stretching in PS, but I’m getting better, I think

Telescope: Orion EON 120mm ED
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding: Orion 80ST, SSAG, PHD
Camera: Canon Digital 40D (Modded by HyperCams – Brent Oliver)
Filter: Astronomik CLS Clip Filter
Temperature: 2 Celsius (35 Fahrenheit)

Exposures: 96 x 360 seconds @ ISO 1600
Calibration: 81 darks, 25 flats, and 25 bias

TOTAL: 9 hours 36 minutes

Acquisition: BackyardEOS - RAW
Processing: Nebulosity – Calibrated (Bap Pixel Map, Bias, Flats), Registered, Stacked
Post-processing: Photoshop, NeatImage, Carboni’s Tool

Location: Nangor Resort, Ontario, Canada
Date(s): October 10 & 11, 2010

[Octane (Humayun)]

Guy,

Excellent effort -- well done.

H

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Lovely detail, the Ha regions are well defined.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! That is very very nice indeed. Lovely colours, excellent details and processing. Top notch!

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Hi Guy....All this from a DSLR WOW!

Did you use the BackyardEOS Dither function?

Well done indeed.

[RobF (Rob)]

It just blows my mind when people succeed in capturing Ha regions in galaxies. To think of all those nebula in another galaxy.

Top work!

[guyroch]

Originally Posted by wasyoungonce

Hi Guy....All this from a DSLR WOW!

Did you use the BackyardEOS Dither function?

Well done indeed.

Did I use my own monster to Dither... you bet I did! Speaking of BackyardEOS, I have had great initial testing with the 40D, 50D, T2i, 1000D. The XSi and the T1i is currently in testing - A release is eminent

Yes, all this from a moded Canon 40D DSLR.

Guylain

[TrevorW]

top effort well done

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice image. Captured a lot of detail in the arms and ha areas well done.

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

Amazing the detail that you've pulled out there. So many hours. Well done.

Brian

[guyroch]

Anyone willing to take on a challenge. You are more than welcome to download the raw stack and process it. All I ask is that you post your result and your processing steps. I'd like to learn from them

http://www.sendspace.com/file/leonrv

Have fun tearing it down

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by guyroch

Anyone willing to take on a challenge. You are more than welcome to download the raw stack and process it. All I ask is that you post your result and your processing steps. I'd like to learn from them

http://www.sendspace.com/file/leonrv

Have fun tearing it down

Here you go. Had a go at it. DDP, Saturation and color balance in CCDStack. I used PS CS5. Noiseware for noise reduction. Levels, Curves, Sharpening and further color balance and saturation all done in PS. I've put a higher-res here. [2.3MB]. Very cool data to work with. Sure others can do much better process though

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Here you go. Had a go at it. DDP, Saturation and color balance in CCDStack. I used PS CS5. Noiseware for noise reduction. Levels, Curves, Sharpening and further color balance and saturation all done in PS. I've put a higher-res here. [2.3MB]. Very cool data to work with. Sure others can do much better process though

Very nice reprocess Marc, I like it!

Marco

[trent_julie]

Impressive.....

[guyroch]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Here you go. Had a go at it. DDP, Saturation and color balance in CCDStack. I used PS CS5. Noiseware for noise reduction. Levels, Curves, Sharpening and further color balance and saturation all done in PS. I've put a higher-res here. [2.3MB]. Very cool data to work with. Sure others can do much better process though

Very nice indeed, I like your re-process better than my original. You've managed to really pull out the HA and you've kept the overall color balance to a more realistic look, not blue'ish like mine.

Awesome!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by guyroch

Very nice indeed, I like your re-process better than my original. You've managed to really pull out the HA and you've kept the overall color balance to a more realistic look, not blue'ish like mine.

Awesome!

Oops... Did that two days ago on my laptop and just saw it on a calibrated screen on my desktop now. Looks like the reds (and noise) are really heavy. I've made a mental note never to process on a that laptop again. Sorry for butchering the colors on your lovely data!

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

nice dso! well done!

[irwjager (Ivo)]

That is an awesome example of what you can do with modest equipment - I can't believe that's a humble DSLR! I love your processing too. I guess I'm just a fan of the cooler colors...

Neat idea to put up your raw data by the way. I wish more people did it for all of us to learn from. I may toy around with it a bit and see what I can come up with.

Keep up the excellent work on BackyardEOS!

[guyroch]

Originally Posted by irwjager

Neat idea to put up your raw data by the way. I wish more people did it for all of us to learn from. I may toy around with it a bit and see what I can come up with.

Please do, my processing skills are mediocre at best, I need to practice a lot more and hints from others is where the learning stage starts

Originally Posted by irwjager

Keep up the excellent work on BackyardEOS!

Thanks, I made BackyardEOS my life lately, I don't think my wife knows who I am anymore, hidden in my man cave growing a beard I should be releasing it early November.

[irwjager (Ivo)]

Originally Posted by guyroch

Please do, my processing skills are mediocre at best, I need to practice a lot more and hints from others is where the learning stage starts

Thanks, I made BackyardEOS my life lately, I don't think my wife knows who I am anymore, hidden in my man cave growing a beard I should be releasing it early November.

Hahahaha
You wouldn't believe in how much of the same situation I am now (including the out-of-control beard). I just committed myself to StarTools full-time, in order to bring my 10+ tools to the big three platforms with a GUI.

I already know from experience that becoming an independent software publisher/vendor is a very risky thing to do and financially only makes sense if you have a unique product and the goodwill of a large enough user base (and an understanding partner ).

But if you believe you got something that sets you apart from all the other stuff that's out there, then you owe it to yourself to try!