The Running Man and my QHY8's first night out

[pmrid (Peter)]

Goaded into action by AlexN, I ditched the DSLR last night and gave the new cam it'smaiden airing. This is a crop from an M42 that I got a bit carried away with in the processing. The image is 16x10minutes through an 8" Newtonian with MPCC. If I can reprocess the mauve out of the M42, I'll post it a bit later. Right now it's just a bit psychadelic.
Peter

[AlexN]

Nice Peter! great definition, theres a slight hint of guide error, but focus is spot on!! Colour balance can be a pain when you move from a standard DSLR to either a modded dslr or something like the QHY8.. there will inherently be a lot more red/pink/purple hue to the image.. At least you've got some data to play with!

Good on you for pulling the camera out of the box mate! and a nice image as a result!

[alan meehan (Alan)]

Very good shot Peter lovely and smooth,well done.

[allan gould]

Amazing how well the QHY8 are going these days. Nice smooth shot. Well done and hope to see more.

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by AlexN

Colour balance can be a pain when you move from a standard DSLR to either a modded dslr or something like the QHY8.. there will inherently be a lot more red/pink/purple hue to the image..

You're not kidding. Here's the rest - and I tried to tone it down. But what they heck. I'm a child of the 60's - psychaaedlic pink is the new grey!!

Peter

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Peter,

I must admit that I like it and am itching to have a go at monochrome CCD.

Frank

[TheDecepticon]

Congrats on the QHY8 outing! Great Running Man image. Definitely the Orion one has had too much acid, dude!!

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by telecasterguru

Peter,

I must admit that I like it and am itching to have a go at monochrome CCD.

Frank

Now there's a compliment: my colourful image has turned you to monochrome. I am not entirely sure whether that's a good thing or not!!!
Peter

[AlexN]

woah somethings a miss there.. In dss, under fits/raw settings, make sure camera is set to qhy8. Also, in your capture program, make sure its saving raw data. We'll have a look in a couple of weeks!

[Ric]

Nice captures Peter.

Orion is definitely funky

Cheers

[Gama]

Keep of my lawn you HIPPIE.

Theo

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

Originally Posted by pmrid

You're not kidding. Here's the rest - and I tried to tone it down. But what they heck. I'm a child of the 60's - psychaaedlic pink is the new grey!!

Peter

did you set the x and y offset, before debayering?

[marki]

I love your M42, thats the most original version I have ever seen . Who cares if it is not colour perfect .


Mark

[Tandum (Robin)]

Pete, see how out of balance this is ... no wonder it has crazy colours.

[AlexN]

That would explain it!

I'd try enabling "Per channel background calibration" in Deep Sky Stacker. This will align the red, green and blue histograms once stacking is complete.. it makes life a lot easier when it comes to colour balance at the end of the day...
Alex

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

did you set the x and y offset, before debayering?

Hey Duncan. Good question. Debayering?? Isn't that something you have done to your cat? I'm afraid the extent of my sophistication in terms of processing is "Open DSS. Load images. Press big button that says 'Stack' then go to PS and have a play with levels, curves, colours and a bit of saturation followed by an unsharp mask. I was recently introduced to the "Shadow/Highlight" option in the PS image menu and that is what led me down the garden path of psychadelic colours. But I must say in defence of the wild colurs, that it did bring out a level of detail that I wasn't getting otherwise.
Now back to your question, no my cat is OK thanks.
Peter

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

Tandum... 2 27AM.. wow looks like we all keep the same kind of hours