Another Orions sword First light with new 40D

[DavidU (Dave)]

What was the scope Gaz?

[Lester]

Excellent image Gary, thanks for the view.

Is this taken with your 8" astrograph?

[StarGazing (Alex)]

Great one Garyh, you should very happy with the result. Keep up the great work mate.

Alex.

[Paul Haese]

Very nice image Gary. The 40D as I well know produces very good images when cooled. You have captured lots of detail and lovely colouring. Perhaps a little more green, but not much.

Nice work.

[Garyh]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

First class image there Gary - great depth & detail and the colour balance is very good. You've exposed some really good detail in the core too! Excellent!

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus, Mike S version really inspired me to put more work into the core. The core on his image is unreal!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! I love the processing. Definitely the best trap/core blending I've seen around to date.

cheers Marc! I did put a little work into it! Didn`t come out too bad.

Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

Very cool piccy mate! Great colours and detail.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Originally Posted by AlexN

Pwoah!! Niiiice work Gary!

That looks fantastic.

Thanks Alex, M42 is always a must redo as each time one can do better!

Originally Posted by leinad

That's a beauty!! Gotta be proud of that process


The random banding with the 40D appears to be common problem with them all.
More noticeable with sudden fades in bright to dark areas; and during high temps.
Unfortunately I could never get rid of it, even with darks; as the banding seems to randomly flow through the image. You can see this more noticeably when viewing stacking flows in CCDStack; or timelapsed photos(avi movies).

cheers Leinad! thanks for dropping by.
I have a feeling alot could be the 12v power supply I got from Jaycar.
On one frame when I actually turned on the supply there was some really wicked banding..\after that it wasn`t so noticeable except the last two frames for the night which also had bad banding....that`s got me a bit stumped?
thanks for that info...

Originally Posted by Hagar

Gary, this is a ripper, you have to be happy with results like this one. The overall illumination and colour give a very nice 3D effect.

Looking forward to seeing some more like this.

Thz Doug, much appreciated!

Originally Posted by richardo

Top shelf Gaz!!
Huge swath of sky.

Looks as though the cameras a real winner.
Impressive.

Rich

Hi Rich,
Thanks I am quiet happy with the 40D, but if the 20D had the pc control and liveview it would be sweeter!
Thanks for dropping by

[Garyh]

Originally Posted by DavidU

What was the scope Gaz?

David, used the 8" f/4.6 newt for this one.

Originally Posted by Lester

Excellent image Gary, thanks for the view.

Is this taken with your 8" astrograph?

Thanks Lester, yes with the 8" scope, produces nicer stars and tighter focus after the refiguring

Originally Posted by StarGazing

Great one Garyh, you should very happy with the result. Keep up the great work mate.

Alex.

Thanks Alex I shall try to!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Very nice image Gary. The 40D as I well know produces very good images when cooled. You have captured lots of detail and lovely colouring. Perhaps a little more green, but not much.

Nice work.

Hi Paul, well probally needs some green in it as I always worry that it`s not red enough and forget all about the green hues..
Thanks for looking

[leinad (Dan)]

Hey Gary,
I don't think it's the power supply, as the banding can be seen even with dark frames or bias frames at room temp, using the canon battery.

If you ever manage to conquer this problem please let me know.