The skies have finally cleared in my part of the world so it was time that I gave the QHY 9 that I bought in July a try. I picked a nice easy target to start with. This is a very quick process and I know that there are some issues including the blue halos. I will have more of a go at processing this in 2 weeks when I have a bit more time. I am very happy with the star colours.
The image was taken with the equipment in my signature. I aligned and stacked the RGB data in CCD stack and also aligned the RGB data with the lum data and saved them separately. I then had a quick play in PS doing curves and levels before a little selective unsharpening. Data as follows:
Lum 8 x 300secs binned 1x1 (I had to throw away 2 due to guiding errors)
RGB 7 x 180secs binned 2x2 in each channel
Looks really good Rob. Only thing it looks a bit flat in the contrast.
A bit more work in the processing would make this image even better.
Have attached a very quick contrast enhancement of your shot..
Hope you don`t mind....
cheers Gary
Lots of detail there, well done on a great image! What was the brand of the RGB filters used?
I am using the QHY filters that came with the camera and filter wheel. I was pleasantly surprised that there are no reflections around the brighter stars.
Very nice image, although im just starting to get into astrophotography and dont know much about image quality. I personally think thats a bloody nice picture you have taken!!
I am having a bit of a play today and revisited this as promised. I prefer this version. The nebula is not quite as bright but the colours are better and the stars a bit tighter. Thanks for looking.
Now for that M33 image that keeps on beating me!!!
