Gienah and the Veil complex from Queensland Astrofest
just nudging 4 hours taken with canon 300mm lens and the cooled canon40D, this is the deepest shot i have done on this area of sky. May be worth redoing again and reprocessing the data again but i will bounce this result of you guys.
I think you've done really well on the processing David. It's always going to be difficult teasing out nebulosity in such an intense star field.
You've got some lovely colour going on in both the Veil and the Stars.
I think you've done really well on the processing David. It's always going to be difficult teasing out nebulosity in such an intense star field.
You've got some lovely colour going on in both the Veil and the Stars.
Looks very good to me h0ughy. Most people have to resort to HA and O3 filters to get a decent signal of the faint nebulousity. I assume this was taken with Scott's lens?
A blend of colour and HA and O3 would come up beautifully with this lens and your cooled camera.
Looks very good to me h0ughy. Most people have to resort to HA and O3 filters to get a decent signal of the faint nebulousity. I assume this was taken with Scott's lens?
A blend of colour and HA and O3 would come up beautifully with this lens and your cooled camera.
My that must be difficult to get enough signal. Great effort Dave !
yep its faint, its sparse area but i had fun getting it - i enjoy Astrofest as you can have a chat to the people around you as the camera sucks in the photons - who cares if its 2 or 4 in the moirning. it would be much better to have 4 or 5 nights worth of data as i could only get a few hours due to the position it was in and the location. I will be setting up in a slightly different spot next year so i hope to get more of it for a lot longer.
Indeed that area is extremely hard to process & produce results, and you've produced nebulosity in both Complexes of Veil very well without any overbearing noise results.
This is a definite milestone achievement award winner!!
Congratulations, lovely shot.
Indeed that area is extremely hard to process & produce results, and you've produced nebulosity in both Complexes of Veil very well without any overbearing noise results.
This is a definite milestone achievement award winner!!
Congratulations, lovely shot.
David I echo what others have said, well done, beautiful FOV, not an easy target to process and you've done a fantastic job bringing out the lovely colours and faint detail.
David I echo what others have said, well done, beautiful FOV, not an easy target to process and you've done a fantastic job bringing out the lovely colours and faint detail.
Yep - top shot.
Wonderful FOV with that lens, but its always going to take a while to suck down enough photons. Then again, plenty of time to yack at AF as you say
Yep - top shot.
Wonderful FOV with that lens, but its always going to take a while to suck down enough photons. Then again, plenty of time to yack at AF as you say
thanks - i often wonder if it would be better imaging at a higher F stop ratio - an experiment for another day
. it would be much better to have 4 or 5 nights worth of data as i could only get a few hours due to the position it was in and the location. I will be setting up in a slightly different spot next year so i hope to get more of it for a lot longer.
