We'd love you to take part in the July Imaging Challenge. Please post your deep-space images of M20 in this thread. Discussions about the images can also be in this thread.
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While it would be nice if the image were taken in the month of July, it's not essential so feel free to post older images if you're unable to take some new ones.
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Hi all
heres last nights effort on the Triffid, this time using a Lumicon 1.25 inch Deep Sky filter. 1 x 9 min ISO 1600 shot with the 10 inch F5.6 scope and EOS300d, badly light polluted sky with smoke from fireplaces. http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp...%20deepsky.jpg
Wow Scott, you've really got that 300D humming. Every shots a winner Did you reduce noise using Neatimage? Looks a touch soft, not blurry or soft focus at all, it just seems to me to be short a bit of crispness. Or is that from the smokey skies?
Many thanks. No I didnt use any noise reduction. However I now reprocessed it, adding a 2nd 400 sec. shot at ISO 200, stacked them, dark subtracted and then used Noiseware community edition to smooth out noise. http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp...%20deepsky.jpg
I uploaded it as same file name so the link in my first post will lead to this new improved version
Amazing what you can do with astrophoto's from a light polluted site and a skilled hand. Yours imaged are breathtaking Scott! can we put in request. I want you to image the gum nebula (might have set), the north american and the veil nebula
Many thanks. My mount is left permenently set up in the back yard (properly covered when not in use), so that it is nicely polar aligned, alls I need to do is put the scope on it and Im ready to go, sadly this means I cant access the northern sky for the north american and veil, however I will have a crack at the Gum when I can
Scott
Howdy
heres 253 http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp/253.jpg
Taken in November last year ,unfiltered, a 12 min. ISO 200 and 5 min ISO 400 shot. Ive yet to try the DS filter on galaxies but will have to try that soon
Scott
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Did you reduce noise using Neatimage? Looks a touch soft, not blurry or soft focus at all, it just seems to me to be short a bit of crispness. Or is that from the smokey skies?
Very 3D Scott.
