Hello all..
Got to admit I'm losing interest in imaging like water dripping from a tiny hole in a bucket!!!
Slowly but surely the Bass Guitar its drawing me back with it's low siren song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyhoo, until the time I hang up my guidescope I'll still post god darn it!!!
Here are the Triffid and Lagoon Nebs from last night....
Canon 40D (modded)
Canon EF 70-200mm f4L + EF 1.4x Extender (280mm FL @ f5.6)
Skywatcher Synscan EQ5 Mount
Autoguided (PHD)
Nice wide shot, Doug. Hey, why not combine the guitar and the scope and pen us a star ditty
Cheers normal...
I'm an all or nothing kind of guy (dependant on all or nothing finances too!)
I'm finding the time I have to devote (alone) to getting an image I'm 'fairly' happy with isn't worth the effort when there are guys like Rob Gendler producing the stuff I love to look at already - I'll never be him and don't feel that bad that I won't either!!!
Oh bugger!! I don't know...Help I'm confused!!!!!!
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Cheers normal...
I'm an all or nothing kind of guy (dependant on all or nothing finances too!)
I'm finding the time I have to devote (alone) to getting an image I'm 'fairly' happy with isn't worth the effort when there are guys like Rob Gendler producing the stuff I love to look at already - I'll never be him and don't feel that bad that I won't either!!!
Oh bugger!! I don't know...Help I'm confused!!!!!!
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You know, Doug, I'm like you in that respect. I see all these absolutely fantastic images and I think, it'll take years to get that good, and I have plenty of other things to do with CCD cameras apart from taking pretty piccies. As much as I like them and would like to take piccies that good, I probably won't, but the ones I do take, if I like them then that's all that really matters. Gendler and Co have been taking images for 20-30 years or more. If you're not as good as they are after that amount of experience, you might as well give the game up.
Great wide field Doug. Was is stacked in imagesplus? Also what guide setup did you use?
Cheers Peter,
Yes, calibrated and stacked in Images Plus. Subsequent processing done in PS.
I guide with a bog standard Phillips 840k webcam through an AOE 80mm Achromat with PHD software.
Cheers
Doug
Love the shot, very nice composure and a nice sized FOV to get the small open cluster in the bottom left... The modded camera really brings alot of M8 out doesnt it!
Hi Doug, that's a beautiful and very deep image. I love it. Everything's relative I guess. I'd aspire to do images as good as yours, but I could never find someone else's excellent images a substitute for my own mediocre ones...you can't beat having done something yourself I reckon.
Let yourself drift back to the Bass (my neglected Ibanez was calling me from the corner of the bedroom this morning).... you'll be back! I've lost count the amount of times I drifted away from Astro in the last 30 years but I always drift back. Actually right now I find myself more occupied with the Canon 40D for a new hobby in terrestrial (particularly macro) photography... who knows what next
Love the shot, very nice composure and a nice sized FOV to get the small open cluster in the bottom left... The modded camera really brings alot of M8 out doesnt it!
Thanks Alex, only starting to see the good stuff coming from the modded 40D - each target reveals just a little more of itself!
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Originally Posted by Robert_T
...you can't beat having done something yourself I reckon.
Let yourself drift back to the Bass (my neglected Ibanez was calling me from the corner of the bedroom this morning).... you'll be back! I've lost count the amount of times I drifted away from Astro in the last 30 years but I always drift back. Actually right now I find myself more occupied with the Canon 40D for a new hobby in terrestrial (particularly macro) photography... who knows what next
True and true Rob!
It's that personal, creative element to imaging that keeps me coming back I suppose.
Like you, I've drifted in and out of Astronomy over the years too. Sold gear, regreted it etc!!
I will ponder the bass/imaging dilema in a zen-like state!
Really though I reckon it's "swamp fever" - Friday night was the first bit of clear night sky I've seen in weeks!!!!
All the best
Doug
You know, Doug, I'm like you in that respect. I see all these absolutely fantastic images and I think, it'll take years to get that good, and I have plenty of other things to do with CCD cameras apart from taking pretty piccies. As much as I like them and would like to take piccies that good, I probably won't, but the ones I do take, if I like them then that's all that really matters. Gendler and Co have been taking images for 20-30 years or more. If you're not as good as they are after that amount of experience, you might as well give the game up.
I've had a lie down since posting last night and washed my face in the morning dew, bringing me back to my senses
I've done the same, except with photography.. I was right into it a while back, had well over 23k worth of gear.. lost interest and sold it all... bought a drift racing car... within 5 months was wishing i had never sold the photography gear...
I've learnt from that mistake alright! never again will I sell cameras/lenses excepting due to upgrades. (Scopes class as lenses really... and mounts are just seriously windproof tripods )
I have to admit to a certain level of frustration from time to time but I like to pit myself against the elements (weather, polar alignment, softwar, neighbours, etc etc) and while I may never be as good at it as some of those other guys, I get a kick out of the results I achieve.
).... you'll be back! I've lost count the amount of times I drifted away from Astro in the last 30 years but I always drift back. Actually right now I find myself more occupied with the Canon 40D for a new hobby in terrestrial (particularly macro) photography... who knows what next
