Finally got focus! M42

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #1 29-09-2009, 01:21 PM

Well finally, everything is getting finely tuned. I was out at ASWA's Tammin site on the weekend for some awsome clear dark skies.

M42

2 x 10min iso 200
9 x 2 min iso 200
9 x 1 min iso 200
9 x 30 sec iso 200
9 x 15 sec iso 200

Taken though a SW 10" dob mounted on a eq6pro guided with a trusty DSE 114mm reflector and DSI 2. Canon 40d-Modded Astronomik UV/IR screwin filter, Baadar MPCC (thankyou greaham).

any words of improvement gladly taken. Hopefully the colouring is right, as im not 100% cirtain of the colour management of the monitor.

Brendan

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #2 29-09-2009, 01:32 PM

Wow, there's an awful lot of detail there!
The colours are a bit too vibrant for my taste, but to each their own.
Great job Brendan.

supernova1965 (Warren) · #3 29-09-2009, 01:33 PM

What a GREAT SHOT it is now in my wallpaper slideshow

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #4 29-09-2009, 01:34 PM

They arnt ment to be so "neon" or vibrant as you say, its the monitor that im working on, its not colour matched, hence i cant see when its just right. I think ill just wait untill i can get ahold of the spyder and colour match my laptop monitor again.

Thankyou very much for the words though

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #5 29-09-2009, 01:44 PM

It's a right pain isn't it, trying to get the calibration right between puters.
My images always end up looking too soft and under saturated.

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #6 29-09-2009, 01:52 PM

JJJ are you in a position to do a little bit of colour management aka can you give it a tweek just so i have a image to base my colour matching off.?

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #7 29-09-2009, 01:54 PM

I'll give it a go.

I dropped the saturation down. Not too far I hope.

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #8 29-09-2009, 01:55 PM

thankyou

troypiggo (Troy) · #9 29-09-2009, 01:58 PM

Very nice detail! One to be proud of. Look forward to seeing the "calibrated" version.

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #10 29-09-2009, 02:54 PM

Round 2.

thanks JJJ for that, gave me a bit of a baseline, then i found where the colour matching spyder was

hazzar, hopefully this is a bit better, pulled a little bit more detail out near the tendrils.

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #11 29-09-2009, 03:01 PM

Thats a fantasic image Brendan, you must be made up after the hassle of getting it all to focus

very vibrant, and lots of details.

great post

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #12 29-09-2009, 03:09 PM

hehehe im nearly there with the Collimnation (

hehehe) its still just a little bit off, but i wasn't going to fiddle too much with it, all i knew is that the focus was hitting close enough for the night!

Its amazing how much i have learnt since march of this year remembering i got the scope in november 08, mount in jan 09, and the cam march 09 and its just been modified a month or so ago.! heres a photo of my previous best shot of M42