First light ED100 - Omega centauri

[telemarker (Keith)]

First light for my new scope with Omega centauri.

9 x 2 min subs, PhD guided, 20D Iso 800, no darks, bias or flats.(technical difficulties)

Stacked in DSS, curves, levels and USM.

And no CA (I've been using an achromat lately)

Criticism/comments are most welcome

[iceman (Mike)]

Good start, calibration frames will help.

Keep it up!

[Alchemy (Clive)]

yep no chromatic abberation, must be a relief to take your first image with it and it turns out so well. as iceman says calibration will add to the image .

clive

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Nice work and glad the first light was a satisfactory test run

[desler]

Sensational first light image!



But you have to help me here (Calibration frames = Bias frames) ?????
Not sure.


Daz

[telemarker (Keith)]

Thanks for the replies. I missed doing darks etc when I stripped a thread whilst placing the guide scope on so I didn't really have time when I finally got set up. Plus I wanted to see how it would go (new toy excitement and all that). I'll do them tonite, promise

Thanks Troy, I'm really pleased with the scope. Gave my boy the best view of saturn tonight. The primary school is teaching space at the moment, so he was chuffed at being able to see these things first hand.

Daz, callibration is all the images used to remove camera noise and imperfections in the optics (dust, vignetting etc). Others could explain it all better than me, I'm just starting out in all this.

[dcalleja]

A really crisp image- nice