Dumbell Nebula

[Zuts]

Hi Guys

This is taken from 100 km out of Sydney, so darker skies

I boosted the saturation a fair bit to get some more detail.

6 by 300 sec subs, darks plus flats, UV/IR block
TV85, TV 0.8 reducer on EQ6, self guided with SBIG 2000 XCM
Levels and Curves PS2, Sum combine in Maxim, Neat Image
Reduced to 1200 pixels, 40 % compression.

Thanks for looking, any comments appreciated.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Looks good Paul. The sky and some of the stars look to have a bit of a red cast on my monitor.

Peter

[Ric]

A great image Paul, You've brought out some nice detail in the Dumbell itself.

It looks like you have found a nice dark sky spot as well.

Cheers

[leon]

Great effort Paul heaps of detail in that one, and the colours are spot on, well done.

Leon

[Zuts]

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Looks good Paul. The sky and some of the stars look to have a bit of a red cast on my monitor.

Peter

Thanks Peter. I cant see the cast on my monitor; but it wouldnt surprise me as I pushed it a bit.

Originally Posted by Ric

A great image Paul, You've brought out some nice detail in the Dumbell itself.

It looks like you have found a nice dark sky spot as well.

Cheers

Not sure it's nice, but it is reasonably dark. About an hour and a half down the F5 and pulled up in a rest area. Much better than Glebe, but this week I may try your trick and do some narrowband in Glebe.

Originally Posted by leon

Great effort Paul heaps of detail in that one, and the colours are spot on, well done.

Leon

Thanks Leon. Since I am a demons fan, I reckon the colours are spot on too

Paul

[JohnG (John)]

Hi Paul

I can't really comment on the shot in a lot of detail as I am just getting used to the ST4000XCM but there is a bit of noise there on my monitor, did you set the Set Point Temp to well below ambient, that eliminated a lot noise from my shots. The shots I did on Sat night were at -20c, the camera was running at 65% power so I could have dropped the temp a bit more.

Other than the bit of noise, a good shot.

Cheers

John G

[Zuts]

Originally Posted by JohnG

Hi Paul

I can't really comment on the shot in a lot of detail as I am just getting used to the ST4000XCM but there is a bit of noise there on my monitor, did you set the Set Point Temp to well below ambient, that eliminated a lot noise from my shots. The shots I did on Sat night were at -20c, the camera was running at 65% power so I could have dropped the temp a bit more.

Other than the bit of noise, a good shot.

Cheers

John G

Thanks John,

I usually set the temp to -15. I could go lower in winter but i can usually reach this temp in summer as well. Maybe I should see how low I can go, but my darks are taken at -15.

Paul

[JohnG (John)]

Hi Paul

The way I understand the one shot colour camera's should be run is to set them so the camera is operating around 80% power, on mine, that would drop me to about -25c or so depending on ambient, might be worth a try.

Cheers

John G