Guest andyboy1970 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 16 x 5 minute subs, darks and flats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Now that I like Andy. What with the M42 and this you are really getting that 80 singing in tune. Keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) These st80's are so under rated IMO, I had some really good results with mine. Are you going to take over the baton then Andy? If you haven't already, I highly recommend flocking it fully and darkening the edges of the lenses, it improved contrast a lot for me Edited January 16, 2013 by Perkil8r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andyboy1970 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Cheers guys. These st80's are so under rated IMO, I had some really good results with mine. Are you going to take over the baton then Andy? If you haven't already, I highly recommend flocking it fully and darkening the edges of the lenses, it improved contrast a lot for me I took a load of images with the ST80 over a year ago. I might save flocking for the summer. Processing can be a bugger though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I found it a real trial to process the st80 images, the blue took a lot of controlling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr T Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Great image, nebulosity showing up really well and good star colour on background stars too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andyboy1970 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I found it a real trial to process the st80 images, the blue took a lot of controlling. I use a skywatcher LP filter which tends to boost the red channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 That will help. I don't know which stacking software you use, but in DSS there is a setting to align channels after stacking, that seemed to do the trick very nicely in aligning all of the historgrams. Certainly took some of the pain out of it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andyboy1970 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I did all post stack processing in Photoshop as sometimes the aligned channels seem grey in DSS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 If you align the channels in DSS when you get it into Photoshop, click Image-Adjustments-Colour Match, then set the bottom slider to around 150 I find that brings the colour back quite nicely. Might be worth a shot? Just makes life easier IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Antares_Paul Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Very nice Andy. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andyboy1970 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Re-tweeked with HLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Very impressive, lovely nebulosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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