anudder Lovejoy

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Taken from a lovely dark site in far north-eastern victoria. 14 shots of 1 min at 3200, did my very first separate comet stacking in Pixinsight, a challenge worth pursuing, it works very well.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/48232585@N00/16128965350/

[leon]

It did work very well indeed Simon, well done, lovely capture.

Leon

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Top notch image Simon! You have a killer setup there.

cheers
Jo

[Peter Ward]

I really like the colour accuracy. A delightful result.

I also recently purchased a A7s , but am not sure I would want to have it modified.

Did you use the camera prior to the mod? What mod was done? Noticeable differences?

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Thanks Chaps.

Peter, sadly I bought the camera already modded from JTW Astro, so I can't report on the differences. You'll love the camera.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's a ripper of a shot Simon!

[plantnerd (Luis)]

Excellent shot almost perfect I would try to blend away the dark halo around the comet to it is more seamless with the background

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

good one Simmo, well captured, this is where I reckon the A7s has quite a bit of advantage over the competition.

[grantboxer (Grant)]

Great image. I have tried using PixInsight for comets and although I have managed to get the comet alignment to work, I have not been able to master the blending of the star field and the comet image. Is this trial and error or is there a secret there somewhere?

[John K]

Sweet image Simon,

I wonder what that camera could do if it was also cooled!

[gregbradley]

Fabulous image. One point there is a processing artefact around the head of the comet of a dark patch. I presume that's from the removal of the comet in the stars only layer. Probably should have used a median combine there to smooth it out.

Greg.

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Thanks. Hey Greg, In PI how do you do a median combine?