Omega Centauri 11/4/06

mick pinner · #1 12-04-2006, 07:11 AM

single shot with Zenithstar 80
350D iso 800 30 sec exp

iceman (Mike) · #2 12-04-2006, 07:15 AM

Nice wide field Mick! What's the full crop look like?

[1ponders] (Paul) · #3 12-04-2006, 08:30 AM

It looks like a good clean single frame Mick. Nice shot.

How soon before you get your autoguiding up and running and can do some longer exposures. I imagine you'll be over the moon when that happens.

Mind if I have a play with the single frame?

mick pinner · #4 12-04-2006, 12:30 PM

not at all Paul. What do you mean by the full crop Mike?
l will be putting it on the wedge over Easter so some long exposures next week l hope.

ving (David) · #5 12-04-2006, 12:38 PM

long exposures! sweet!

nice OC shot

[1ponders] (Paul) · #6 12-04-2006, 02:45 PM

Just a quick curves, levels and vignette removal using a mask and hey presto, heaps of stars in that single shot.

Looks very promising Mick.

ving (David) · #7 12-04-2006, 03:00 PM

i like curves paul... :drool:

mick pinner · #8 12-04-2006, 06:14 PM

thank you Paul, what software are you using?

djacko · #9 14-04-2006, 02:16 AM

Top effort Mick.

asimov (John) · #10 14-04-2006, 02:29 AM

Great shot Mick

[1ponders] (Paul) · #11 14-04-2006, 08:52 AM

Just Photoshop curves and levels for bringing out more stars Mick. And I subtracted a highly blurred copy of the original to remove some of the vignetting. I couldn't take it all out that way without affecting the image too much, mainly because it was a single shot very compressed jpeg without a full tonal range to work with.