Orion to Monoceros with the D800

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

While out observing last Saturday with Barry and Curt I had the Polarie with the Nikon D800 and a 50mm lens going for 60 x 1.5 minutes at iso1600 and f4. I'm reasonably pleased with the result, as it shows most of the interesting features in the region.
However, 60 x 74Mb raw files sure put a strain on the processors!
Thanks for looking, hi-res version at
http://www.astrobin.com/76378/
cheers,
Andrew.

[DavidTrap (David)]

Looks nice Andrew.

I shot some Ha of this region with a 50mm lens on my QSI on Saturday. Yet to be processed, but the Individual subs looked OK. I was amazed I could actually see definition in the horsehead with a 50mm lens!

DT

[gregbradley]

Very deep. It looks like you picked up a lot of green airglow there.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Superb Andrew. You've got all the main candidates in one. Love it.

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

Originally Posted by DavidTrap

Looks nice Andrew.

I shot some Ha of this region with a 50mm lens on my QSI on Saturday. Yet to be processed, but the Individual subs looked OK. I was amazed I could actually see definition in the horsehead with a 50mm lens!

DT

Thanks David, I look forward to seeing that. I lost a fair bit of detail with denoising, but was similarly impressed with what a good 50mm could show.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very deep. It looks like you picked up a lot of green airglow there.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I took a couple of wide fields at 14mm as well and there was plenty of it about. It was also doing damage to the contrast in the eyepiece.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Superb Andrew. You've got all the main candidates in one. Love it.

Cheers - I was kind of hoping I could just crop them out of the final image to save mucking about with the bigger AP setup, but unfortunately not even the mighty Nikon is that good :-)

[IanP]

That is a very impressive wide filed.
Yeah, you can see the 43mm sensor size.

If you have PixInsight, try to use SCNR-G(green), roughly 0.8, and I’d also use col-saturation to boost the pink-reds …

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

Originally Posted by IanP

That is a very impressive wide filed.
Yeah, you can see the 43mm sensor size.

If you have PixInsight, try to use SCNR-G(green), roughly 0.8, and I’d also use col-saturation to boost the pink-reds …

Thanks Ian, I had tried the SNCR but not at 80%. I think 5 minute subs might deliver the best improvement though.

[Ross G]

Great looking widefield Andrew.

The high resolution shows so many objects.

Ross.