My first CCD Image Tarrantula

[Octane (Humayun)]

Tony,

A great start.

Regards,
Humayun

[Ric]

Hi Tony, thats a great looking image the Nebula is quite detailed, looking forward to the colour version.

cheers

[jase (Jason)]

Nice "first light" image Tony. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Garyh]

I agree with everyone!
Its a great first shot Tony, only uphill from here!!!
Cheers Gary

[Striker (Tony)]

Thanks for everyone support and tips,

Also thanks to Roger

I did get the internal guiding working by applying autodark..that seem to help a lot....managed to do some 5 minute exposure's last night..I have yet to process them...things are moving along nicely now...I think

Another 3 months of trialing and playing and I may move onto color images....lol


Tony

[tornado33]

Many years ago A mate bought round a then new SBIG7 I think it was, to try on my scope, heres the results
http://cust.idl.net.au/josiah/SBIG.htm
back then he software was DOS based, but surprisingly easy to use. Focussing was a breeze using a Heartman mask, draw a box round a star and the camera will just keep sending small images with that star in the centre, and highly magnified, so focussing is done in real time.
I cant remember how we did the darks, I think we just took a dark and set the software to automatically subtract it from the light images then and there. I only had one night with it on my scope,would loved to have had more.
Scott