Gotta hava go

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 22-06-2007, 02:03 AM

Inspired by Lukas offering, I had a go last night at the same subject, Sagittarius.
28 x 10sec images stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker.
The camera was at ISO 800, which may explain the grain.

Some quality was lost when I converted it from a .tif to a jpeg.
Any advice is welcome.

joe_smith · #2 22-06-2007, 03:52 AM

Jeanette that is good image, was that taken with your Gstar?

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 22-06-2007, 07:58 AM

It was taken with my little Canon Powershot camera.
Trying to test it's limits.
LOL I never thought that it was capable of this though.

Ric · #4 22-06-2007, 08:05 AM

Hi Jeanette, that has turned out really nice. Everything is nice and sharp and there is some nice detail appearing as well.

I think you have done very well.

matt · #5 22-06-2007, 08:16 AM

That's very cool for Powershot pic.

That's got me thinking about doing the same with my digicam

Thanks for the inspiration.

Tamtarn · #6 22-06-2007, 10:53 AM

Well done Jeanette there's quite a bit of detail in there with such short exposure

h0ughy (David) · #7 22-06-2007, 12:54 PM

Well done JJJ!

luka · #8 22-06-2007, 03:05 PM

Excellent.
Wider angle also allows Jupiter in top left corner to be visible.

Garyh · #9 22-06-2007, 03:11 PM

lots of info for such short subs...thumbs up!!!
cheers

acropolite (Phil) · #10 22-06-2007, 08:05 PM

Nice work jjj, doubly so considering the equipment you're using

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #11 22-06-2007, 08:27 PM

This is the new and improved version, minus the aircraft trail.
I played around with saturation etc and managed to draw out a bit of colour.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #12 22-06-2007, 09:03 PM

I'm still waiting for your G-Star images!!!!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #13 22-06-2007, 10:03 PM

Soon Ken, soon.
I'll be setting it up on the barn door for some widefields once Berts lenses arrive.

duncan · #14 22-06-2007, 10:05 PM

Yep i'm waiting too Ken,LOL.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #15 22-06-2007, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Soon Ken, soon.
I'll be setting it up on the barn door for some widefields once Berts lenses arrive.

Shove it in the scope Jeanette! I wanna see how they work thru a scope, not a camera lens. Especially the results from basic amatuers like us.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #16 22-06-2007, 10:30 PM

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=20430
You must have blinked and missed it Ken.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #17 22-06-2007, 10:34 PM

Very Sorry Jeanette. I did miss that thread.

Looks like the G-star picked up the light from the Galaxies really good. What exposure time did you use on those images?

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #18 22-06-2007, 10:43 PM

Sense up was set at 48x to avoid star trails.
Not sure exactly how long that means as per exposure. Still alot to learn.
I'm hoping to beg a loan of someones tracking scope at Astrofest, and see how it performs with 128x intergration.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #19 22-06-2007, 10:49 PM

48x? Wierd exposure rating.
Thanks.

Looks promising for when you get to mount it with tracking.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #20 22-06-2007, 11:01 PM

Sorry Ken,
My brain having a major meltdown tonight, and refuses to work. I'll explain it another time.
Or you can to go to myastroshop, and download the manual, read it, then you can explain it to me in simple words of 5 letters or less. LOL
Cheers