A reprocessed M45 from Qld Astrofest

h0ughy (David) · #1 21-10-2007, 10:00 AM

I thought this morning I would do something different. I used the data I took at Qld Astrofest 2007 and then stacked it in deepskystacker. i then saved it as a 32 bit tiff and threw it over into CS3 to see what horrible mess I could come up with. To be honest I had absolutely NO idea what I was really doing, just playing with different options and settings - trying to pay attention to not killing the histogram, anyway I think I really need to start and do something a lot better than what i have been doing in the past. this is a different feel to the original version I posted when I returned from that trip. Please feel free to have a pick at it and I do have the original tiff file if you want to have a play with it LOL its 89MB

so if you really want to have a poke and prod we could work something out. note the image is slightly cropped from the original but not by much

xelasnave · #2 21-10-2007, 01:28 PM

Looks very nice to me... but I will have a look again tonight... I have so much light in this house it is hard to get a good view.... under dark conditions it will show the nebulosity better I expect... you had good polar align given it was not a permanet set up.

89 meg... I have to smile when I think I ran an office on a 20 meg hard drive.

mill (Martin) · #3 21-10-2007, 01:50 PM

Looks good even with a slight tracking error and collimation a tad off as i can see with my little knowledge.
Collimation might look off due to the small tracking error now i think about it.