Another Horsey from Hobart

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Hi folks. This is 7 hours 47 minutes from a cooled canon 60da and a vixen Rs200 Newt. Five minute exposures at ISO 400 mainly, with some 800 and 1200 thrown in. Its taken me weeks to collect the data due to weather/work etc.
Have some collimation issues to sort and really don't know how to tame Alnitak down a bit. Processed in Star Tools.
Thanks for looking/tips etc
Cheers
Graham

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice work Graham, a nice late season Horsey! I like the red coming through.
how is your 60da cooled? was it CDS?
alnitak yes that's a toughy! lots of masking!

cheers

[britgc (Bret)]

Hi Graham,

Nice image. Not sure if you've tried it yet, but the HDR feature in Startools has a tame highlights tool that should help tone down Alnitak and reveal a bit more detail around the star HIP 26816 as well.

Hope that helps.

Bret

[ralph1]

I like it with Alnitak 'untamed' so to speak. It makes it look bright, like it does at the eyepiece. There is a great contrast between an untamed Alnitak and the nebulae around it.
Ralph

[blink138 (Pat)]

giddyup! great horsey graham, great result from the cooled 60da mate!
pat

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Thanks chaps! I will look into that HDR tool Brett - cheers
The canon was cooled by central ds in s. Korea. It's great. Cools to about 15' below ambient. The exif temp was about 2-3'c on a hot night recently.
Thanks for the comments again
Graz

[kosh]

Nice one Graham! I like the colour, and pretty clean too.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

A nice result Graham and I really like the luminous red.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Awesome shot Graham!

[Eden (Brett)]

Excellent work, Graham! Very impressive.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very good indeed. Nice colours and beautiful field.

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Thanks all!

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

very nice Graham.