Horsey and Pleiades

[Osirisra (Ken)]

Had a rare and short couple of hours with clear skies last night. Certainly didn't last long but managed to get these couple of short shots.

600D on a 8" newt on EQ6Pro, stacked in DSS and then tweaked in Photoshop.

Only 6x2min for pleiades and 18x2min for horse/flame so lots of noise, Bloody weather...

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Nice colours

[gregbradley]

Its good to get an image under the clear skies.
Good one.

Greg.

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

Not bad Ken with the colours and tracking seems to be not too bad but in true DSLR fasion noise is a killer but we all know this anyhow!

The weather this weekend will be sterling so make sure you get out under the stars tonight

[Osirisra (Ken)]

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Nice colours

Thanks Malcom.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Its good to get an image under the clear skies.
Good one.

Greg.

Ta Greg, clear skies have been such a rare thing this year

Originally Posted by bmitchell82

Not bad Ken with the colours and tracking seems to be not too bad but in true DSLR fasion noise is a killer but we all know this anyhow!

The weather this weekend will be sterling so make sure you get out under the stars tonight

Thanks Brendan, I was hoping to use the QYH8L and guide rig but I knew that I only had a short amount of time with the weather so DSLR it was.

It total crap here this weekend, blowing 30-40km/h with cloud patches. I was even looking to driving out into to the bush and setting up but everywhere I looked the weather is crap without going more than 300km

[Ross G]

Great photos Ken,

I really like the colours in the Pleiades shot.

Ross.

[Osirisra (Ken)]

Thanks Ross,

Have done a bit more on the Pleiades and a shot of M42 as the wind ruined any new imaging tonight.

[Ross G]

Hi Ken,

Looks good.

A lot more nebulosity in the Pleiades shot.

I love all the detail in the Orion photo.

Ross.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Good collection Ken, That Orion is my favourite, less noise, the colors are great, a nice subtle appearance overall yet holding clear detail.
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