First Light (well almost)

[Paul K]

Had a go at the Triffid neb... Thought I would get in while there no clouds about.... I'm just trying to learn the art of Photon collection and I have been reading posts and looking at the wonderful images that are posted here on this site. I captured about 45 minutes worth for this image using a SW 12" guided on EQ6 with a 450D unmodified in prime focus...I as yet do not possess much in the way of processing software, so I used Gimp to play with the curves a bit...and it said that it would reduce the images to 8 bit... so I guess thats a negative....I was reasonably pleased with the result, I was suprised to see the dust show up in the image...

I best be off to bed ...it's 4 am....zzzzzz

Kind regards

Paul

[TrevorW]

Probably colour a bit wrong but a fine image none the less, tracking appears ok as does focus but sometimes hard to tell with the displayed image size

You can post a larger scale say 1000x600 which can be depressed in jpeg under 250k limit and still be presentable

[renormalised (Carl)]

Colours in the neb are a little too intense, but it's a nice piccie

[Paul K]

Thank you for your comments... I forgot to say in the original post...the 45 min of exposure were made up of 12 lights ICNR and then DSS... and of course tweaked in Gimp.......again I appreciate the comments...

Paul

[Hagar (Doug)]

Just beginning, just great first light Paul. Looks like you are well on the way. Good data like this will allow you to play with the processing quite a bit and learn how to get the best from your software.

Nice.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Paul,

Great result for your first attempts!

JPG images are saved in 8-bit format. TIFF's (and, others) are saved in 8 or 16 (and, higher, depending on the file type) format.

Regards,
Humayun

[Paul K]

Thank you for your comment....now if these clouds would only clear....