2nd July

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

All taken with the Gstar Ex video camera.
The Lagoon - 393 frames
Eagle Neb - 400 frames
Helix - 375 frames
I stacked twice as many this time with a quite an improvement on the final image. But I only used 100 darks. I think that was a mistake. Using 200 may have been a better bet.
Next time I'll knock the gain down a bit and see if I can get those stars rounder.
I used PaintShopPro for post processing.
Oh, and I put the Lagoon and Eagle through Neat Image to smooth them out a bit. Did I go too far with the sharpening and noise reduction?
Practice practice practice

[renormalised (Carl)]

Not bad Jeanette. Try to remove the dark rings around the stars...go here, it's Steve Quirk's site and his method for doing it....

http://my.hwy.com.au/~sjquirk/images/ps-tips/ring-removal.html

and also from this site a few tips on using the camera and processing pictures...

http://my.hwy.com.au/~sjquirk/scopes/gstar.html


Hope that helps

[Ric]

Very nice Jeanette, your getting the most out of that camera.

The Eagle came up very nice indeed.

Cheers