It's all unofficial anyway so I'm calling mine the Angry Dragon Nebula, and that's that.
20 x 300s guided (Total integration time 100 minutes) over 2 nights before moonrise.
C 9.25" SCT @ F2 (Hyperstar)
QHY12 CCD OSC @ -15C
Stacked in Nebulosity 4
Last edited by dylan_odonnell; 13-05-2015 at 12:31 AM.
It's all unofficial anyway so I'm calling mine the Angry Dragon Nebula, and that's that.
20 x 300s guided (Total integration time 100 minutes) over 2 nights before moonrise.
C 9.25" SCT @ F2 (Hyperstar)
QHY12 CCD OSC @ -15C
Stacked in Nebulosity 4
It has never looked like chicken to me,even when people draw a supposed outline of it.
All I see is different shades of red in a big splotch of nebulosity.
Cheers
One thing that is bugging me is that the stars on the left are sightly larger than the stars on the right. I thought this was collimation at first and tried to adjust but I believe it's because the CCD chip isn't perfectly perpendicular to the incoming light so isn't 100% flat on the focal plane.
I think there is an adapter I can get from QHY for this, I'll have to look into it.
That's pretty nice Dylan!
I think the resolution on the uploaded image brings it down a bit though ( at least on my monitor ) but never the less, I like it .
That's pretty nice Dylan!
I think the resolution on the uploaded image brings it down a bit though ( at least on my monitor ) but never the less, I like it .
Thanks, here is a larger resolution version if you like !
This is a really nice image Dylan!
I really like the colours, very pleasing
But I think the stars look maybe a little over sharpened or something though? Some of the bright ones have a little black ring like you've used deconvolution without a star mask?
This is a really nice image Dylan!
I really like the colours, very pleasing
But I think the stars look maybe a little over sharpened or something though? Some of the bright ones have a little black ring like you've used deconvolution without a star mask?
It's true, I'm not a fan of the little rings. They come from the "edge enhancement" in the "DPP" stretching dialogue in nebulosity. The difference is very good, in that the stars become small and sharper but the ring is an unwanted artefact of that. The slider for Edge Enhancement only appears to have a few stops.. and this is on the first one... as low as it can be applied!
It's probably not necessary though as I usually do a median inverted-layer-mask to smooth the background and sharpen the stars anyway.. but it does work very very well otherwise!
That's a cracker Dylan, well done now what's it doing in the beginners section
Hah! Thanks man. You know when I got here about 12 months ago I was very very intimidated by the beginner section. Took me a long time to post anything. There is some amazing work here. Technically I'm a beginner (at least, I still feel like one). Moving over to the regular image boards would be a good next step, I'm glad you think I might have a chance!
C11 with hyperstar must be a nice Fov! Image looks great. Still looks like a bad ass dragon to me though
Thanks. The F2 is nice. I should check your post fully. You are also using a Hyperstar and CCD. Mine was done with the QHY10. I will have to upgrade my Nebulosity to 4.0 soon. Got the Email but haven't got it yet.
Yep, what they look like is very subjective. Some have very strange names and others look OK.
Maybe all the data you have captured makes it look less like its name. That happens with running man. The more detail the less it looks like a running man.
Most of these were named with very old scopes that didn't capture much detail.
The more I look at your image the more I realize how good it is.
Maybe all the data you have captured makes it look less like its name. That happens with running man. The more detail the less it looks like a running man.
That's true, the same object can look wildly different depending on how much of the outer details are resolved.
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Originally Posted by Mosc_007
The more I look at your image the more I realize how good it is.
