Tarantula Nebula

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Tarantula Nebula…
ED80, Synscan EQ5 GoTo mount.
40x30 sec exposures at iso 200 and 640, unguided.
Stacked in groups of 4 x 10, stacked images aligned/ combined in ImagesPlus.
Processed in Photoshop CS.
Cheers
Doug

[iceman (Mike)]

Great image Doug! Is that cropped?
You've got some nice star colours too, I can't get any colour

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Great image Doug! Is that cropped?
You've got some nice star colours too, I can't get any colour

Thanks Mike,
Yes it is cropped, re colour - I know what you mean, I cant seem to get any reds in the neb to pop out!
Doug

[Garyh]

thats very sharp Doug! great detail there.
very impressed!

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

Thanks Mike,
Yes it is cropped, re colour - I know what you mean, I cant seem to get any reds in the neb to pop out!
Doug

sorry guys the filters in the camera stop this. Nice image Doug

[Tamtarn]

Great image Doug good detail there.......Your equipment is certainly doing the job

Look forward to seeing longer exposures

Nice to catch up with you last week

[leon]

Now your cooking Doug, very nice image, and green as well, when i did one the other night i thought, gee that's green, but i must have been right after all.

Cheers Leon

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Great image Doug good detail there.......Your equipment is certainly doing the job

Look forward to seeing longer exposures

Nice to catch up with you last week

Thanks guys, hope you enjoyed your trip down to SA.
The Yarra valley vino was much appreciated.
Hopefully I can do longer exposures now, and I can say bye bye to the 30sec specials!!

Originally Posted by leon

Now your cooking Doug, very nice image, and green as well, when i did one the other night i thought, gee that's green, but i must have been right after all.

Cheers Leon

Thanks mate,
I actually really like the green of the Tarantula Neb' - one of my favourites.
A bit of red would be nice though

Cheers
Doug

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

Now you're cooking, Doug! Great shot. Looks like you could extract even more detail from that one with a tad extra processing in the fainter areas.. Try setting the black point a few clicks lower. Focus looks good, tracking is spot on. Way to go.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by 2020BC

Now you're cooking, Doug! Great shot. Looks like you could extract even more detail from that one with a tad extra processing in the fainter areas.. Try setting the black point a few clicks lower. Focus looks good, tracking is spot on. Way to go.

Thanks Bill,
I hope to get into the autoguiding side of things soon so that I may leave the safety of the 30sec exposure behind me in order to not have to squeeze the crap out of every photon/pixel in the image!!
I'll experiment with the black point - thanks for the advice Bill
I have had lots of great advice and feedback from many IIS astrophotographers - Thanks all.
Cheers
Doug