oldfruit Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Had a trip up to Badger farm last night. This is 24x 5 min lights, 9 x darks of M101 There are a couple of other fuzzies in there too, bonus Having got the rig guiding without issue for the second time I think I now need to concentrate my efforts a little more on the processing side. Any comments, tips welcome. Taken with ED80 on NEQ6 pro, finder guider, canon unmodded 1000d at iso 1600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 another nice one Mark, can i make a suggestion to try, i`ve been adding darks to my canon 1100d as your supposed to but over the last few nights i`ve been stacking the lights again without any darks added and i think the outcome is better, not so much noise and background appears darker too, have a try and see what you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 Thanks Rob, I will give that a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Nice one Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Nice Mark Drop the ISO and increase the darks though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 didn`t notice the iso level, wouldn`t go over 800 iso myself if it`s a dark target, if it`s bright like m42 then 400 iso, maybe even less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 hope you don`t mind Mark, i`ve had a play with the pic, bored with the decorating L.O.L. your rgb levels were not aligned which i think has helped with the background alot, still a bit noisy but i think that might be due to the high iso levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Good image Mark, I always use ISO 800, tried all sorts of settings and settled on 800. Now the processing curve starts!! Glad you had a good night! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 To be fair I was very tired this morning when I did this image as I only arrived home at 4.30am. So I have recharged the batteries and had another go at processing the data. I think this one has come out a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Really nice image. It's good to see people climbing the ladder with this imaging lark. Watch out Olly! Great second image. JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 i only ever used 800 iso, was told that was the best setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 (edited) I use 800 as well with the DSLR you may want to look at doing some flats as well (ses he that tries to get away with cali frames ) if you use PS for processing a litle plug in called Hasta la vista green might help Edited March 9, 2014 by Ibbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Thanks all for comments and advice. I have just come to work and noticed how different the image looks on my monitor at work when compared to the image on my laptop. The reason I opted for iso 1600 was the ED80 is quite slow as I do not use a reducer. I will try iso 800 and take more subs and darks in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman_55 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Nice images. Just wondering if you used the same length of exposure for the darks as you did the subs and whether the temperature was about the same? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Darks were the same, 5 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peter shah Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 nicely captured, stars look pin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Thanks Peter, using the Bat mask is a big help, needless to say I will be doing a lot of reading about processing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Hi Mark. Thats a great image 101 is a pig to get when the moon is about. +2 for the Flats. They will help with the noise no end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman_55 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Hope you don't mind, but I've had a go at this one as well. You managed to capture a lot of data, so I've used PS to adjust the levels a bit. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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