LMC and 47TUc Quickies

[avandonk]

The cloud finally got out of the way late last night and it stayed clear till dawn.
Took some sets of images at 2,4 and 8 minutes with the Canon 5DH and modded 100ED. Used a Hutech LPS filter and at an ISO of 500. It was 2.2 deg C at dawn.
Used EasyHDR to produce LDR images from the data. The Moon was up for the 30Dor data at the last quarter and gave me some gradient problems but sort of eliminated it with GradientXterminator.
This is a bit of a practice run as I am getting rusty.

30Dor 1.5MB
http://avandonkbl.bigblog.com.au/dat...0807154851.jpg

47 Tuc 1.5MB
http://avandonkbl.bigblog.com.au/dat...0807154851.jpg

Bert

[jase (Jason)]

Bert, Thoroughly enjoyed the Tarantula nebula and surrounding region. Plenty of intricate knots of nebulosity captured. Would appear you have the HDR processing very well under control. Well done!

[tornado33]

Excellent shots. Looking at the tarantula at full res. it looks almost as big as imaged with my 10 inch scope! Electronic imaging like this 10 years ago would be unheard of outside the most expensive professional observatories
Scott

[avandonk]

Shhuussss they all think we are geniuses. I think we are all on a very steep learning curve as really good equipment both optics and computing becomes comparatively (gulp) cheap. The real trick is to become adept at this image processing caper. I am still surprised what I can squeeze out of earlier data. I think I would still be in the dark ages without interacting with other people especially at IIS.
I think my report card should read 'will do better with more effort and less cloud!'

Bert

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Amazing clarity!