My first proper DSI image

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

See, you're climbing up the learning curve already!
You've done wonders on that second image.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

See, you're climbing up the learning curve already!
You've done wonders on that second image.

Thanks Jeanette,

All I did to it was a slight Gaussian Blur, reduced star size (in PS Actions), then sharpened once and finished off with Brightness/contrast.

Thanks all for the Yahoo groups suggestions. I'll have to join some of them

[ving (David)]

well done ken. the blur has worked wonders. nice and smooth.

[higginsdj]

All you need is to take a dark then subtract it to get rid of the hot pixels. Although the ambient temp may have been 1.3c, the temp of the electronics may have been considerably higher. Even with my ST-8E mechanically cooled to -45c I get plenty of hot pixels - it's all relative.

Good job on your first image though. I still have trouble putting together colour images.

Cheers

[dcalleja]

Ken
Its a great start! Nice image and an interesting target. Is it the DSI single shot colour model?

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by dcalleja

Ken
Its a great start! Nice image and an interesting target. Is it the DSI single shot colour model?

Yes Dan, the DSI-C

Originally Posted by higginsdj

All you need is to take a dark then subtract it to get rid of the hot pixels.

Yep, done many images that way with the Toucam, but the DSI was supposed to subtract them 'in camera' but it didn't.