HA NGC 3324 Gabriela Mistral Neb

[desler]

Hi All,

Got in a bit of time through some high wispy cloud with the 7nm HA filter.

Ended up with 90 usable minutes of the Gabriela Mistral Neb, all in 10 minute subs. First go at imaging this for me, so comments etc appreciated.

Darren

[spearo (Frank)]

Very nice, sharp as a tack.
Well done.

Imaged through the 9.25? That's such a good scope
frank

[Hagar (Doug)]

This one has come up very nice Darren. Now for the colour.

[desler]

Originally Posted by spearo

Very nice, sharp as a tack.
Well done.

Imaged through the 9.25? That's such a good scope
frank

No, Frank, the Ed 120, with the qhy9. It came up a fair it brighter with 10 minutes subs than I expected, although processing in Ha is still a bit like dark magic to me! I am overall probably most happy with the focus, the starlight focuser and digital control is really helping me with auto focus routines.

Originally Posted by Hagar

This one has come up very nice Darren. Now for the colour.

Thank you Doug. I still need to capture the colour, although I did manage to get 75 minutes of Ha data to add to my Thor image, but after several attempts in ccd stack and cs3, I'm not having a great deal of success blending. I'm thinking it's a workflow error on my part!

Maybe another instruction lesson at SV is due!

Darren

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

She's beautiful!

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Some good detail!

[TrevorW]

Good effort on that one Darren the face is clearly decernable

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Very nice Darren. What workflow did you use to process it?

[DavidU (Dave)]

Nice work Darren

[Jen]

nice one Darren dont get too many good pics in at home or the Mrs will say you dont need to go to Snake Valley no more hahahah

[desler]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

She's beautiful!

Thanks JJJ.

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Some good detail!

Thanks Dr Paul

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Good effort on that one Darren the face is clearly decernable

Yes Trevor, Thanks mate, quite happy with how it worked out.

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Very nice Darren. What workflow did you use to process it?

Thank you Peter. Basically, I stretched it out using the white point slider in Levels, quite drastically to be honest. The the normal fine adjustment curves and selective sharpening using layer masks, a couple of different masks to get the different parts of the image to differing levels.

Originally Posted by DavidU

Nice work Darren

Thank you David.

Originally Posted by Jen

nice one Darren dont get too many good pics in at home or the Mrs will say you dont need to go to Snake Valley no more hahahah

Cheeky girl, now that isn't a problem, cause we are all now going just to get the first hand story of you new toy! What you had to do for that is anybodies guess. oh and by the way, leave those black clouds up there when you head down.

Darren

[Jen]

Originally Posted by desler

Cheeky girl, now that isn't a problem, cause we are all now going just to get the first hand story of you new toy! What you had to do for that is anybodies guess. oh and by the way, leave those black clouds up there when you head down.

Darren

lol Darren ok i will leave the clouds behind, yes i cant wait for my new toy to arrive woooohooo oh yeah there is a few stories about how i got this scope LOL Late night snake valley chats they will be revealed hahahah