M7 ...or what happens when u rush things ;-)

[Robert_T]

Hi All, earlier last night while waiting for the Triffid and Lagoon nebs to get above my (very high tree-line) thought I'd have a go at the M7 open cluster.

Rushed through the setup and focus process, ran 10x 60s exposures at 800ISO and same darks with the Canon 40D WO 0.8x reducer and IDAS-LPS filter in the YO ED80.

Thought things were looking promising on the screen during capture, but realised after that in my rushing that I didn't reset the files to RAW from when I was focussing in Images Plus ... so they were all capture as small Jpegs ...

Here they are stacked up using deep sky stacker for what it's worth. Couldn't do a lot with the jpegs without bringing out artefacts.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Not that bad Robert.
You live and learn...
Doug

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Welcome to the club Rob It will take some time but eventually you will remember to check for RAW setting every single time you take a shot.

[RB (Andrew)]

Doh !

I hate it when little things go wrong.

Now I know this doesn't help you but I always have my camera set to take both jpg's and RAW, but I use live focus.

LOL one night I spent ages trying to image the moon but couldn't even centre it let alone focus or image it.
Turns out I still had my solar filter on.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Now that's funny.

[Ric]

A good tip Robert, I shall put that on a post-it note and stick on my monitor with all the other valuable tips I have learnt

Cheers