Hi all
Had a great night on Wednesday. Several reasions but mainly we had wonderful skies here in Colac, my gear all worked without a hitch and I managed to do a nice imaging run on M8 as well as trying out the Infinity and did some visual as well.
The run I managed on M8 was such that it was 2 hours and it just worked so I was able to wander off and use my eyeball. It can be done.
Anyway, below is is my result from the Lagoon.
Details are:
Scope: Stellarvue SVR102T IS at f5.6
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ G with EQMOD vis Bluetooth
Camera: Atik One 6.0 with Astronomik LRGB Filter set
Guiding:Orion SSAG Pro in an Orion ST80
Image details: 10x 180s unbinned through each of LRGB at -20degrees
Darks and bias frames applied, no flats s I had not yet received my lightbox (it arrived today thanks Peter!!)
Stacked in DSS and processed in PS CC2015
I think I have finally figured out stacking LRGB images!! I think there may still be some haloing in blue around the brighter stars that is possibly focus related. I still have to try some stuff to bring out some of the fainter stuff in the outer regions but overall quite happy with this result.
Still a bit of work to go on getting some things sorted out but getting thee I think!!
Thanks Simon
The stars I am quite happy with, the matched flattener on this scope seems to work OK.
I have another version that I am working on with some variation. Used some layer masking to try and lighten up the background a bit and bring out some nebulosity without blowing out he brighter parts too much.
One more thing on this. At the last SV camp John Glossop did a short presentation on image processing. Thanks to John taking that session and walking myself and a few others through his workflow, I am finding processing images much easier.
