My First Deep Space Photo's...with a bit of help

[bojan]

I guess it should.
However, please note I do not use any filters.
I tried to see if the filter would help (as it should..) but after playing with processing, I was not convinced it is worth the expense.. the colour shift etc was very similar at the end with filter and with no filter. So I abandoned the idea

Anyway, the best "filter" is to go out of town.. as far away as you find practical :-)

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Originally Posted by bojan

I found the pictorial description of how I treat LP..
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...se.php?a=62092

I gave it a shot..using CS3.

It's much better although I overdid it somewhat.

A few artifacts & graininess in this as a result of converting it to a small jpg.

Thanks for your help. I'm a little clearer now.

[cybereye (Mario)]

Originally Posted by wasyoungonce

Damn...that sucks.

I was on the pentax site and they indicated that there was a cable shutter release for the K-m. I looked up the specs & they do not mention a cable release socket...so they appear to be giving mixed signals.

Damn.

is there anyway to use the USB to control the camera?

The high end Pentax DSLR's you can (K10D) but not my entry level one.

I'm not too concerned about it just yet as my skill at drift aligning is not good enough to worry about any shots with exposures greater than 30s anyway!!! I'm still at the baby step stages...

Mario

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Originally Posted by cybereye

The high end Pentax DSLR's you can (K10D) but not my entry level one.

I'm not too concerned about it just yet as my skill at drift aligning is not good enough to worry about any shots with exposures greater than 30s anyway!!! I'm still at the baby step stages...

Mario

Thanks Mario.

I was unsure about what functions you had or could run.

As you can see. 15 seconds with Robs short FL scope worked pretty much ok but this depends upon your scope & its FL.

I liked his scope soooo much...it's got me an itch!

Brendan