Quick Eta

[bluescope]

Hi All

Last night was the first relatively calm night here for weeks so I set up on my temporary slab observatory and did a quick shoot ( 30 mins ) of Eta before moonrise and windshift.
We had terrible smoke blanket the valley from bushfires in the Perth area during the day and I suspect there was still some in the air last night .... there certainly is today as I post this. Anyway I hope you like it ... could have done with at least another 30 mins but the wind started to blow and I had no protection without my obs



5x360sec exp @ -7 degrees ( warm night )
WO FLT110 F7 Triplet Apo with Flat68 on EQ6 Pro Mount
ST2000XCM ( no filters ) self guided with CCDOPS v5
Stacked DSS edited in PS CS3

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice pic, considering the conditions

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by renormalised

Nice pic, considering the conditions

Cheers mate !

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Great effort given the condition indeed! Wind, smoke, moon... time. Anything else?

[TrevorW]

Me likes too any processing tips !!

[jase (Jason)]

Not bad Steve. Dynamic range looks a little suppressed to me...to short a distance between highlights and midtones. Perhaps repro is on order or wait until you acquire more data with better conditions.

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

Great effort given the condition indeed! Wind, smoke, moon... time. Anything else?

Well it was about 24 degrees ambient temp .... that never helps either

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Me likes too any processing tips !!

The first thing you need is good data Trevor otherwise all the processing in the world won't help. Unfortunately in this game good data usually comes at a price i.e. expensive equipment to shoot the image.

Originally Posted by jase

Not bad Steve. Dynamic range looks a little suppressed to me...to short a distance between highlights and midtones. Perhaps repro is on order or wait until you acquire more data with better conditions.

I tend to agree Jase ... the image looked better on the laptop that I processed it on ... I was disappointed when I posted it from my desktop and viewed the pic. So repro could be on the cards and definitely more data.

[AlexN]

Yep... bit more data and a bit more depth and it will be very nice...

I like the colours you're getting out of it.. Looks fantastic..

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by AlexN

Yep... bit more data and a bit more depth and it will be very nice...

I like the colours you're getting out of it.. Looks fantastic..

Thanks Alex !

[bloodhound31]

Holey moley Steve. Nice 'Quick" shot.

It's all so much fun isn't it?

Out here again tonight trying to get in before moonrise. We have the best hobby don't we folks?

Baz.

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by bloodhound31

Holey moley Steve. Nice 'Quick" shot.

It's all so much fun isn't it?

Out here again tonight trying to get in before moonrise. We have the best hobby don't we folks?

Baz.

I won't be outside tonight Baz .... we've gone from smoke to complete cloud cover with the added joy of humidity and no breeze after a daytime temp of 39 degrees. I hope you have a good night mate !

[AlexN]

Baz - You couldnt be more right... No other hobby I've ever had even comes close..