First Light

RockHound · #1 16-03-2014, 08:38 PM

Hi All

After a few months away due to work/being made redundant/having to move i have finally got round to giving my RC8 and Atik 314l+ camera a run. After a few hours of trouble shooting i finally managed to image something (m83). So the results are below. Both are 23x 4min. exposures taken with a full moon in the sky. Normally i use DSS for the stacking but this time i used PIX for everything.

The first looks over stretched and bit and the second looks a bit under but i can't seem to find the right combination

Cheers
Paul

Retrograde (Pete) · #2 18-03-2014, 05:48 PM

That's a very nice looking image of what is far from an easy object.

As far as stretching goes I don't have enough experience to suggest what to do. Are they completely different images or the same one with different processing?

RockHound · #3 19-03-2014, 12:40 AM

the same one but with different processing (mainly different histogram stretches)

Retrograde (Pete) · #4 19-03-2014, 10:41 PM

Well you've got some good data there. I prefer the second one on the whole so maybe use those settings as a starting point?