Helix Nebula 2 scopes and cameras 17 hours

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Meru

Good god that is amazing. Wow!!!!

Thanks Meru! I was happy and I think I may have stumbled onto a good formula here. It will be up and running shortly as I iron out the last details of the dual setup.

Greg.

[Harel_Boren]

Deep and breathtakingly beautiful!
Cheers,
Harel

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Excellent rendition Greg, very deep and detailed at the same time!
Regards
Marco

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Harel_Boren

Deep and breathtakingly beautiful!
Cheers,
Harel

Thanks Harel. I just got a colour calibrator and a new monitor and realised OMG my laptop was way off in colour. It showed everything very muted that was actually quite saturated so I think I have been posting images that are oversaturated in colour thinking they were spot on. Ooops.

Originally Posted by marco

Excellent rendition Greg, very deep and detailed at the same time!
Regards
Marco

Cheers Marco. I plan on doing more of this type of image.

Greg.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

very deep there Greg - even got some detail in the very faint outer regions

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

very deep there Greg - even got some detail in the very faint outer regions

Thanks Ray.

Its an interesting object.

Greg.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

That is a magnificent image with lots of fine detail Greg!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

That is a magnificent image with lots of fine detail Greg!

Thanks Slawomir.

Its certainly made me aware of a potential formula for other images. I am about to start taking joint images at the same time with 2 setups. The CDK17 and Proline and the Honders and Trius or something else.

Greg.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Your astrophotography equation sounds very exciting Greg:

CDK17 x Proline + Honders x Trius (or ML50100) = sky is the limit!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Your astrophotography equation sounds very exciting Greg:

CDK17 x Proline + Honders x Trius (or ML50100) = sky is the limit!

Yes it does sound good. I haven't been able to find any sample ML50100 images. I was told by one person its not out yet. I thought it was. 6 micron 60+%QE would be perfect for the Honders except for the processing. Can you imagine processing a bunch of 100mb files? Bad enough with 32mb 16803 files.

Greg.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Yes, a large screen, lots of RAM and a fast hard drive (maybe SD drive?) would be needed to process a stack of 20-30 100mb subs...per filter...wow, that's a lot of gigabytes!

Imagine creating a master bias from say 200 bias frames....

[astronobob (Bob)]

Far-out Greg, That is some awesome captureing. what dont I like, nothing

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Yes, a large screen, lots of RAM and a fast hard drive (maybe SD drive?) would be needed to process a stack of 20-30 100mb subs...per filter...wow, that's a lot of gigabytes!

Imagine creating a master bias from say 200 bias frames....

I wouldn't. I don't now. Also it needs 65mm filters like an STX16803 and I am not sure if that means another filter wheel which I just got. I think it does. I'll have to check the opening of the filter wheel. New 65mm filters if you went Astrodon are very expensive as well. So it would be the camera, new filters and perhaps a new filter wheel or at least a new carousel for the filters plus an SSD drive. Although the time spent processing 16803 images is not in the read and write of files but in CCDstack, registering, data rejection etc. A stack of 30 images at 1x1 binning takes quite a while to do data rejection with an I7 computer.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Far-out Greg, That is some awesome captureing. what dont I like, nothing

Thanks Bob. I was excited I got so much faint nebulosity.

Greg.

[Rex]

Holy COW! Greg that's awesome. The detail in both the interior and the exterior extension is superb!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Rex

Holy COW! Greg that's awesome. The detail in both the interior and the exterior extension is superb!

Thanks Rex. I am happy with the outcome and plan to use that formula more often.
Greg