Bad M33 from Astrofest 2013

[h0ughy (David)]

this would have to be one off the worst images I have from astrofest. nowhere near long enough, lack of detail and the guiding gave me eggy stars. I remember the night I got this and I was having no end of problems with the mount and PHD, no I found out the mounts firmware had a bug - so has my image. its lack of detail and crispness, no spiral arms, no Ha regions - ah the list go on. Oh how I envy Peters M33 ;0

this target deserves more respect, but I am posting to show the image I got

weapon of photon destruction - celestron nightscape ccd OSC ,hyperstar3 and Celestron C11 on a eq8 - stacked in Astrofx, processed in Pixinsight then cropped in PS and saved to ruin your vision for here

[Lee]

That doesn't look too bad to me Dave, you've resolved details in the arms.... needs some more contrast??

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Lee

That doesn't look too bad to me Dave, you've resolved details in the arms.... needs some more contrast??

its blurred sue to the movement, and no where near enough signal Lee, might try the extra contrast?

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

...nah it's not that bad Man, with the new kit you were trying to master in the field, sheesh, I take my hat of mate

Mike

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

this would have to be one off the worst images I have from astrofest.

I disagree mate, there's quite a bit of detail hidden in there.
Had a quick play with PS Elements (hate using that program) because I haven't got access to my usual computer atm.

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

...nah it's not that bad Man, with the new kit you were trying to master in the field, sheesh, I take my hat of mate

Mike

that kid looks like he is passing an opinion mike

it was exactly 12 months since I did any deep sky stuff, and yes I had new gear but I should have been able to get something better than that