Last night was a mixture of high cloud and a reasonable wind, but as everything was set up, and gave the tarantula a go.
Ended up with 60 min of Lum in 10 min exposures and 20 mins in RGB in 10 min subs. Processed, aligned and stacked in CCD stack and edit, slight crop and general processing in CS 3.
Not bad Darren from the scale I'd say you used the 120 (attached is one I did with the ED80 a while ago using a 350d, 15X3 min), colour looks good, some star elongation appearing in corners much like in my first attempt.
This has come up very nicely Darren. The only thing I would do to make it pop a bit is to lift the red channel a little and maybe the blue using a selective hue and saturation increase.
The big mass of stars surrounding the nebula are quite blue and the rich Ha base of the nebula appears a bit more red.
Looking good though. Looks like the camera is a winner in the 120.
Thanks all, appears a little over cooked Leon, but I was shown a couple of new blending tips tonight, so hopefully the clouds will go away and I'll get some more data and have another go at processing tomorrow!
Looking good Darren, make some short exposures to get the core not burned out and blend that in
The tarantula is pretty hard to process and easy to get the core burned out.
PS: the next best thing to get is a HA filter
Lovely!
