Hi
I posted my first image with my new ML8300 last week and after getting back from the Kelling Heath star party I managed to get out last night and take some RGB data to go with the Ha. The transparency wasn't very good last night due to a thin haze but nevertheless I am happy with the way this turned out.
It was taken with my Takahashi FSQ106ED at f5, FLI ML8300 (cooling set to -35c) on a Paramount ME, autoguided by a Lodestar and OAG.
It is 8x30 minutes for Ha and 12x10 minutes each for RGB
After full calibration with 24 darks and 50 flats/50darks the processing consisted of:-
Levels
Curves
Gradient removal
Contrast curves
Ha added as a luminance layer at 50% opacity
Colour balance
Further contrast curves
No sharpening or noise reduction/smoothing was used
One thing I have really noticed so far is how noise free this camera is
The Ha version can be seen on the 'Nebulae 2' page of my website
http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk and a full size high resolution version of the final result can be seen at the following link
http://www.pbase.com/imaging_the_hea...29553/original
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon
