I took this last night (8/6/2010) in questionable seeing - the scintillation was terrible. Ended up with only using 2 minute subs the light pollution was pretty bad - all up 99x2 minutes (3h 18min) ISo 800 Cooled Canon 40D on the 127ED - all driven on the g11. Stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight 1.6. M20 AND M21 could have been better but it is my first from home
Oh, God. I regret having sold my ED127 now. That is a magical field of view.
Well done on your first M20/M21 combination from your new imaging nirvana (man, I wish I had my own place and an observatory... sadly, not for many years to come, I suspect).
Oh, God. I regret having sold my ED127 now. That is a magical field of view.
Well done on your first M20/M21 combination from your new imaging nirvana (man, I wish I had my own place and an observatory... sadly, not for many years to come, I suspect).
H
Thanks H for your input.
As for attaining your dreams, well all you need do is get rid of that crummy 5DII and get your 127Ed back and with a bit of hard work you too can get a family, a morgage, buy a dome or two and live in light polluted Nirvana
Have you found with your ED127 that the orange stars focus better than the blue ones? As in, when a Bahtinov Mask reports that an orange star is in best focus, if you were to slew to a 3rd or 4th magnitude regular star, they have an ugly violet halo. I found dialling the focuser back just a smidgen would remove the halo but still present sharp stars. They weren't as sharp as at perfect focus, but, still excellent.
Have you found with your ED127 that the orange stars focus better than the blue ones? As in, when a Bahtinov Mask reports that an orange star is in best focus, if you were to slew to a 3rd or 4th magnitude regular star, they have an ugly violet halo. I found dialling the focuser back just a smidgen would remove the halo but still present sharp stars. They weren't as sharp as at perfect focus, but, still excellent.
H
Nah - prefer to have perfect focus and i like the halos - adds character and i know what is my image - helps give it some colour
Considering you say the scintillation was terrible, you'd have to be pretty pleased with this effort !! Nice shot - good colour processing there as well !!
Considering you say the scintillation was terrible, you'd have to be pretty pleased with this effort !! Nice shot - good colour processing there as well !!
Thanks David - its howling a gale here now - far too windy to image now - but will be at it again later tonight - perhaps do this one again for a few more hours
Took a while to realise what the weed reference was....thought you may have been smoking some out in the doghouse or something
Anyway, looks like some good head , nice colours and the softness is actually pleasing.
Funny I had the same issue with the seeing the night I took my last weed image back in the first half of 2007 ...gee man, might be the bodacious time to do it again yerrrr...
Took a while to realise what the weed reference was....thought you may have been smoking some out in the doghouse or something
Anyway, looks like some good head , nice colours and the softness is actually pleasing.
Funny I had the same issue with the seeing the night I took my last weed image back in the first half of 2007 ...gee man, might be the bodacious time to do it again yerrrr...
Mike
LOL yes i was referring to the plant quality reference of the name - the trifid.....bring on the roundup....
Be great if you got a new shot with that big bruising beastie camera of yours
The seeing was terrible; the air was full of high cloud, smoke and water vapour down low with the jet stream screaming over the top.
anyway glad you liked the Halos
..thought you may have been smoking some out in the doghouse or something 
...gee man, might be the bodacious time to do it again yerrrr...
