Flame and Horse Head

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

This is a true first light for the new camera, (a cooled and modded Canon 1100D), using the ED80.
It performed wonderfully, keeping to a pretty steady -14 all through the session.
A total of 3hrs and 45min of exposure time, using 5 minute subs.
It's mainly captured at ISO 400 with about an hour of ISO 800 thrown in. I'm still experimenting to find out which setting is best.
I had taken darks and used them initially, I found that they made no difference to the image so decided to process the image without them.
I did use flats though. You've gotta use flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS3.

As the season progresses I'll be adding more data.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Outstanding image there J.

I'm afraid with summer here in the tropics, all I'm shooting are hot pixels with my non-cooled camera.

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Wow, that has turned out really nice! Well done

[lacad01 (Adam)]

That turned out very nice indeed, good job

[DavidU (Dave)]

Your best image yet

[allan gould]

Saw your camera at Astrofest and loved the look of it. It's really turned out a great image in your hands. Well done JJJ and enjoy all it's potential.
Allan

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Very nice shot jjj one to keep for sure, that cooled camera is very cool, now you have inspired me to think of a cooling mod for mine it can get hot and noisey at times.

[Poita (Peter)]

Lovely!
I find with the QHY8 I rarely need darks either. Makes things easier.

That is a massive halo, any idea what is causing that? I kinda like it though.

[alistairsam]

That's really nice jjj. Do you have any pics of your modded camera and setup?

[cybereye (Mario)]

Very nice!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by Poita

Lovely!
I find with the QHY8 I rarely need darks either. Makes things easier.

That is a massive halo, any idea what is causing that? I kinda like it though.

That would be Alnitak causing the halo. It's a hot blue supergiant and the bane of anyone imaging the region. The little star right next to it is one of it's 2 companions.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I even get flare from Alnitak when shooting M42!

[pixelsaurus (Mike)]

Nice job jjj.

[Kunama]

Great image, well composed, I hope to get a result like that...... one of these days.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Great image, JJJ!

[naskies (Dave)]

Wow, looks very nice Out of curiosity, how did you end up choosing a cooled 1100D over an astro CCD?

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Holeee cow JJJ.

Fantasmagorical.

That is all.

Chris

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by naskies

Wow, looks very nice Out of curiosity, how did you end up choosing a cooled 1100D over an astro CCD?

I was looking into getting an OSC CCD but after doing a bit of research I figured that this camera could produce comparable images, with the added benefit of being able to utilise my existing camera lenses for wide field work.

[Paul Haese]

Nice colour and smooth image. I would be suggesting it needs nothing more. Saturation is sensational

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Very nice Jeanette love it.