Many many thanks for your kind words of encouragement everyone!
The family is pretty sympathetic to the cause, but don't always understand the obsession and excitement.
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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon
A very cool image! Great focus and detail! 
Do you have to use dark frames with the QHY9?  |
Hmm - I suspect its not essential, but I don't have any experience on just how necessary they are yet. The KAF8300 chip is supposed to have a bit of noise over the Sony in the QHY8s, but its so easy to set the temp and let the camera and laptop run overnight collecting darks you can reuse, why not give it your best shot....
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Originally Posted by CoolhandJo
Nice detail! Very good framing dead centre! What nm is your Ha Filter?
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That's through the Baader 7nm filter Paul. QHY says they will sell a narrowband set eventually, but not available yet.
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Originally Posted by AlexN
Great work Rob... You'll have to figure out that balancing and get your tracking nailed down, with Ha in the burbs you can image up and indeed over 30 minute exposures!
I really love the tight stars a newt gives in NB images.
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Cheers Alex. I'd like to be able to open her up more, but its a delicate balancing act. I probably need to bite the bullet and pull down the HEQ5, but don't have the time currently, and would like to have quite a bit of PE data on hand first to check if I actually make it better!
I don't think this is as crisp as your spectacular 20mins subs through Peter's 127Apo either dammit! Filtering out the dodgey frames made quite a difference though.
Actually playing with this made me realise I've got work more on masking my stars during processing - the brighter ones started out a lot finer and less blown out than what I've finished up with here. I'm still getting used to pulling the Curves down rather than up in PS for mono.
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Originally Posted by ozstronomer
Rob,
Great Image and fine detail 
Look like all those hours at Peter's is paying off
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Thanks Geoff - seemed a shame to use up such a nice night playing and learning, but you have to start somewhere.
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Originally Posted by mill
Looking good and it is very sharp.
I am expecting my QHY9 on tuesday next week  |
Happy for you Martin - you're in for a quite a happy ride!
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Originally Posted by Mighty_oz
Very nice indeed looking at getting one of these 2. Was this done on your Skywatcher 8" F/5 Newt ? on the heq 5 pro ?
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Yep - shot through the Newt. I've never wanted to cut the tube down though, so I can only get focus using an MPCC (which is pretty important anyway to fight off coma). Can't quite get 2 filters in front of the MPCC though to shoot RGB + IDAS pollution filter from the burbs.
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Originally Posted by Jeff
I want one.  |
There's still another month before the current camera plus filterwheel deal ends though Jeff....
