Another one from last night. Shot until dawn
18x10min with the hyperstar. Bit soft as I didn't refocus all night. The CF tube is working a treat but I'm pushing it.
Bigger version here and of course a version with stars here.
Thanks for looking again.
Nice one Marc, it seems to me that one side is softer, perhaps there are some collimation issue with the hyperstar?
I like the starless version, it makes the nebula looking as you are floating in the sky somewhere closer to it
Both pictures are nice, cant quite decide which I like the most, both have merits. Still some remnants of stars visible in the starless version..... If they were not there I'd probably pick the starless version.
Nice one Marc, it seems to me that one side is softer, perhaps there are some collimation issue with the hyperstar?
I like the starless version, it makes the nebula looking as you are floating in the sky somewhere closer to it
Clear Skies
Marco
Thanks Marco. Yes the focus was progressively getting worse by the end but I wanted to maximise the amount of data I got before sunrise. It's very noisy next to full moon so I coped a fair bit a sky background. I'll definitely revisit it and do it properly as I want to do a mosaic of the whole orion area.
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Originally Posted by Octane
Marc,
This might be the best image you've taken to date (second only to NGC 6188).
It's like a painting. I really dig that.
Well done!
H
Thanks H. Yes that was the idea. The starless version has some depth to it.
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Originally Posted by Alchemy
Both pictures are nice, cant quite decide which I like the most, both have merits. Still some remnants of stars visible in the starless version..... If they were not there I'd probably pick the starless version.
Thanks Clive. Yes I'll need more data to make them both smoother.
Man, how did you fit all this imaging in, in a single daylight savings night?
This is a great FOV, but... Marci Warki, I think you could tidy it up a bit though, that amount of work deserves some careful processing, there is a sensational image in there somewhere the potential is obvious.
Man, how did you fit all this imaging in, in a single daylight savings night?
This is a great FOV, but... Marci Warki, I think you could tidy it up a bit though, that amount of work deserves some careful processing, there is a sensational image in there somewhere the potential is obvious.
Mike
Thanks Mike, it just needs a lot more data and no moon. As you said I had to fit as much imaging time as I could between 2:00am and sunrise so the focus went south. Now I know what to fix. I will revisit and redo it but this one is good enough. I'm happy with what I got out of it so far.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Very nice Marc, it has an ethereal quality about it.
You could always try a bit of deconvolution to tighten the stars a tad if you wanted.
Greg.
Thanks Greg. My image scale doesn't allow for much deconv with the hyperstar I'm at 3asp already.
Really nice Marc, Loads of detail in this image to work with. The overall size of the image is fantastic, it's huge. Very nice capture for so little time. The hyperstar certainly bring the SC to life.
Really nice Marc, Loads of detail in this image to work with. The overall size of the image is fantastic, it's huge. Very nice capture for so little time. The hyperstar certainly bring the SC to life.
Well done.
Thanks Doug. When I got it in PS I took the stars out to process them separately otherwise I would have had to throw half of the subs which I would have normally done if I wasn't suffering from serious imaging withdrawals. When I started stretching the data it looked really cool and deep so I thought I'd keep that one starless then add better data down the road for my mosaic. The HH clears my roof east around 2:00am so I haven't much time to get as much in as I can.
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Originally Posted by philiphart
nice image marc.. that is deep. hyperstar working well for you there with promise of lots more to come.
Thanks Phil. Yes I'm enjoying it a lot .
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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Top work Marc, seems to be fairly deep, nice to see the dark clouds below the horse that are oft missed.
Thanks Fred. It should all pop up nicely as I add to it, hopefully soon.
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Prefer the full star version, you did a good job with Alnitak
Thanks Trev. Didn't do anything with Alnitak. I think the offset and the dense Ha filter killed any potential halos and my OTA is flocked to hell too which helps a lot.
