Lagoon 10th June

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

The first offering from the telescope now that I have the Gstar working with the laptop.
The clouds were a pain to work around, but I should be grateful that I had any clear sky at all.

Ioptron 80mm refractor.
Gstar-Ex camera
IR block filter
Focal reducer
Senseup 128x
177 lights 103 darks
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Paint Shop Pro and Neat Image
Dark Haloes touched up with "Loreal".

I'd rather not have to deal with the haloes, is there any way to avoid getting them in the first place.

[Robert_T]

Hi Jeanette, wow, you've got a heck of a lot of nebulosity here. I haven't heard of this camera... I'm assuming your lights are very short to have so many?

cheers,

Rob

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

http://www.myastroshop.com.au/guides/gstar/index.htm

She's a wee ripper Rob. Ideal for Astro Outreach as you are viewing the images live.
With luck, I'll be setting the camera and scope up at Kirkleigh camping grounds (on Somerset Dam) during the school holidays, projecting the images directly to the outdoor movie screen. It will be awesome.

[avandonk]

jjjnettie the halos can be eliminated by altering one of the settings in the Gstar menu. The gstar users group will know which one. I cant remember offhand.

Try a series of exposures doubling each time from dim to bright and I will use EasyHDR on them to increase the dynamic range. Your bright stars look bad because they are saturating the sensor when the dim neb is visible. Notice the very dim ones are fine.

Good image.

Bert

[Tamtarn]

Sure lucky to have a break in the clouds We have been shrouded in cloud for days here. A really good image Jeanette you're improving with every posting.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

definately got some detail in the neb.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great piccie!!!....lots of detail in the neb.

I hope you use "Loreal Dark Halo Reduction Cream" before you apply your "Nebularising Revitalisation Powder", otherwise it'll become a sticky mess and your halos will show up like sore thumbs!!!!