fwm891 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Captured last night, image made up of 10 x 10 min subs at 800 iso using an unmodified Nikon DSLR on my Altair Astro 115 EDT-APOProcessed in PI an PS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Blimey, lots of nebulosity going on there. Looks like cloud, great effect. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I'll echo James' comment. Looking forward to getting started with guiding myself to achieve that sort of result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peter shah Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 very nice shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Many thanks All for the comments One object that an unmodified DSLR is really suited to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan the Plumber Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Thanks Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sharpie78 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Sorry to jump in on your thread but didn't seem much point starting a new thread for the same object. Very Impressive picture . I hope to match that over the next year or so....... My first attempt hasn't got as much nebulosity as yours but I'm pleased with it considering it was the first time I'd autoguided and done a sub over 3 minutes. 6 x 5 minutes subs @ ISO 1600 - Unmodified Canon EOS 450D on Skywatcher 130PM Newt. http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz259/sharpie1178/DSLR/982c680f-e2ea-4799-b357-30b405a09c26_zps3fd79824.jpg Any tips on post processing etc all very welcome. I suspect mine is over processed........How did you bring out the nebulosity ? Is that an exposure thing or post processing thing ? Clear Skies :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 It's a bit of both Jack, 5 min subs will start to get the nebulosity and then PS used to 'tease' them out, not an easy subject (I've tried!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sharpie78 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Cheers Ron, I'll play about with both. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 (edited) Thanks for the comment All. Jack - watch when your processing, you have a really 'black' backgound which normally means you have clipped the black end of the histogram. Doing that will loose all your highlight detail making it imposable to see any of the dusty stuff. Take your background to a darkish grey - there should still be detail in there and process the rest of the image to it. Likewise with the stars try not to let them burn out - the brightest stars will and need careful masking to save them so don't worry too much at this stage - just try and retain some colour in the mid range stars Edited December 11, 2013 by fwm891 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrocookie Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 That's awesome. You must have pretty dark skies to get exposures of 10 mins. If I tried that from my back garden my subs would look like flats. Good stuff! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Thanks for the comment All. Jack - watch when your processing, you have a really 'black' backgound which normally means you have clipped the black end of the histogram. Doing that will loose all your highlight detail making it imposable to see any of the dusty stuff. Take your background to a darkish grey - there should still be detail in there and process the rest of the image to it. Likewise with the stars try not to let them burn out - the brightest stars will and need careful masking to save them so don't worry too much at this stage - just try and retain some colour in the mid range stars Fabulous M45 Francis and thanks for helping Jack - one of our newest members - sound advice. (It's helping me too lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Fabulous M45 Francis and thanks for helping Jack - one of our newest members - sound advice. (It's helping me too lol) Hi Kim, That's what the forums are for to help and share. This one is one of the better ones at least you feel part of it rather than another N°#### in their arsenal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Absolutely - we're all in it together here - and not in the way the pm described the recession the banks left us in lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sharpie78 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Thanks for your tips. I've been playing and have uploaded to photobucket. If anybody would like to comment.......any other tips greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 A quick thank you to Francis for allowing us the use of this image for our EMS3 banner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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