well late last night early this morning Scott snd I set out to capture a few happy snaps. I was building a few PC's late and invited Scott to come over and image with Berts 300mm lens. As it turned out the sky was not great, lots of high cloud and light pollution. But we did manage to get this, and a few other shots (badly processed by me, just wait for scott to load up the better versions!)
Howdy all
heers my processing efforts, with Iris, and masking in Photoshop for both M42 images.
Was luxury, heated antidew system on the lens even on the guiding eyepieces, thanks Houghy
Its the first time ive got a good go at the Pliades, as the house is in the way at my place.
Scott
Howdy all
heers my processing efforts, with Iris, and masking in Photoshop for both M42 images.
Was luxury, heated antidew system on the lens even on the guiding eyepieces, thanks Houghy
Its the first time ive got a good go at the Pliades, as the house is in the way at my place.
Scott
Tony did you know I added auto guideing to the system - Scott!
how the hell did you get that out of those images scott, i coud barely make out the blue?
Howdy
If the sky was darker Id not have needed to stretch the levels as much, I think thats why the images are a bit grainy. I might have a play with noiseware later on to see if it can smooth it out a bit.
Did a lot of fiddling to coax the detail out. Iris has this "white" function where you draw a small rectangle over the sky background and it automatically brings it to a neutral colour balance, its very handy for modded DSLR's
I can only imagine what we would have got had we been at Kulnura instead
Scott
great team work guys well done. ! very interesting to see the differences in processing skills.
thats right, i have none! BTW I didnt fully process it out I just wanted to post something quickly, you will see that I didnt even crop any of my images
Somehow I was involved and I was not even there. Now you be good hOughy and give Scott one of your autoguided mounts to use. Great to see a pooling of resources and expertise. The results speak for themselves.
Only excuse we will consider is if your too busy building your observatory.
Umm will try, but how about you send down that camera of yours , you wont be needing it for a while while it rains up there . I am sure with that and Bert's lens, my mount and scott autoguiding and a dark site life the universe and everything will be justified
, and legends live everywhere
