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seeker372011 (Narayan) · #1 16-10-2005, 12:10 AM

This is another object imaged over the long weekend that I have only just got around to processing.This will be the last image for a while, I promise!

Autoguided ED 80 on a CG5 mount, unmodified Canon 300d, no filter, from a suburban Sydney backyard location

total exposure 24 minutes, stack of three frames.

calibration in IRIS, some mild tweaking and resizing in Photoshop, gradient removal with ABE

atalas · #2 16-10-2005, 12:15 AM

Narayan this is a great shot mate ! these bright globs are very difficult to do well in colour .
Your stars look great mate, congrats

cventer · #3 16-10-2005, 12:41 AM

Nice job. Stars look great. Dont you love the ED80 and DSLR.

I think focus was maybe just a touch and I mean just a touch soft or seeing was average.

I tried a little deconvolution , saturation and dimming the background (see attached) a little to make the Glob stand out more but I think the result looks over processed. I like your original better ...

Well done... I need to have a go at this glob and never considered it till now..

Best Regards
Chris

beren · #4 16-10-2005, 01:54 AM

very nice indeed

davidpretorius · #5 16-10-2005, 04:42 AM

well done seeker!!

iceman (Mike) · #6 16-10-2005, 06:20 AM

Beautiful shot! Not overexposed in the core. Nice one Narayan.

Itchy · #7 16-10-2005, 07:03 AM

Very nicely done.

Good star colours and detail.

Cheers

Mick (Michael) · #8 16-10-2005, 09:10 AM

Very nice image seeker.

acropolite (Phil) · #9 16-10-2005, 09:38 AM

Nice image Seeker, was the exposure total 24 minutes x 3 or 3x8 mins??..

RB (Andrew) · #10 16-10-2005, 11:20 AM

Great image Narayan,

Another one for framing.

Well done.

PS Nice post processing Chris.

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seeker372011 (Narayan) · #11 16-10-2005, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acropolite

Nice image Seeker, was the exposure total 24 minutes x 3 or 3x8 mins??..

It was three 8 minute exposures stacked..20 minutes is the longest I have ever gone from home in a single long exposure, and that was with a CLS filter

even with 8 minutes the histogram moved rather too far to the right

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #12 16-10-2005, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cventer

I think focus was maybe just a touch and I mean just a touch soft or seeing was average.

Sprung!

Think I winged it on the night..didn't use DSLR focus....

but yes you gotta love the ED 80..havent hardly used my 8 inch ever since I got the ED 80