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Astrophotography / Re: A Rose after a Heart? Val...
Last post by Fay - Today at 10:19:33Fantastic Roberto, such a nice subject. You orpington imagers put a lot of work into your images
#2
Astrophotography / Re: NGC1499 California Nebula ...
Last post by Fay - Today at 10:14:34Lovely John, I do like this nebula....
#3
Astrophotography / Re: M101 from DSC
Last post by Fay - Today at 10:13:18Lovely Carole, again, a lot of hard work to get this good result
#4
Astrophotography / Re: M82 HaLRGB
Last post by Fay - Today at 10:11:54A lot of work went into that John and it has certainly paid off..
#5
Astrophotography / Re: M82 HaLRGB
Last post by Carole - Yesterday at 20:35:21You've certainly cuaght those Ha Jets well John, a very pleasing image.
Carole
Carole
#6
Astrophotography / M82 HaLRGB
Last post by JohnDeathridge - Yesterday at 16:59:10Hello all M82 or Cigar is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Taken using Ha and LRGB. Tonbridge bortle5. Total of 16hrs across several dates in April and May. Bit of a challenge to process as my first go at HaLRGB.
#7
Astrophotography / Re: Timelapse video of the aur...
Last post by Carole - May 17, 2024, 19:59:34That would be helpful Rick can't show them all but just send the best one (or two)
Carole
Carole
#8
Astrophotography / Re: Timelapse video of the aur...
Last post by Rick - May 17, 2024, 18:36:23I can send you the *.mp4 files to save you fighting with video downloads from YouTube, if that helps...
#9
Astrophotography / M101 from DSC
Last post by Carole - May 17, 2024, 17:41:11I took this back in 2016 when I didn't get enough data due to lack of clear skies.
This time I had a couple of disasters.
only 2 clear nights at DSC and one was misty.
Night 1. I took this with my dual rig ED80 taking LRGB ad Ed72 taking Lum only.
The following day I looked at the data and it was a disaster the dew heaters had failed on the ED80, and the lum on the Ed72 was slightly out o focus, no idea why cheked it beforehand.
Night 2
Wanted to get the blue Horsehead so removed the ED72 and put the Samyang lens set up on instead. This left me with only the ED80 (with new dew heater) to get more data on M101.
In total I managed to get only a further 4 Lum and 4 each of RGB beore the Blue Horsehead was rising.
A friend blasted the ED72 (out of focus) data with Blur Exterminator, but there was still not enough colour.
In total:
ED80/Atik460EX
ED72/ Arik460EX
Lum 22 x 600 (3h 40mins)
RGB 40 mins in total
Grand total 4h 20mins.
Needed some nifty processing to get a sikc purse out of a Sow's ear.
This time I had a couple of disasters.
only 2 clear nights at DSC and one was misty.
Night 1. I took this with my dual rig ED80 taking LRGB ad Ed72 taking Lum only.
The following day I looked at the data and it was a disaster the dew heaters had failed on the ED80, and the lum on the Ed72 was slightly out o focus, no idea why cheked it beforehand.
Night 2
Wanted to get the blue Horsehead so removed the ED72 and put the Samyang lens set up on instead. This left me with only the ED80 (with new dew heater) to get more data on M101.
In total I managed to get only a further 4 Lum and 4 each of RGB beore the Blue Horsehead was rising.
A friend blasted the ED72 (out of focus) data with Blur Exterminator, but there was still not enough colour.
In total:
ED80/Atik460EX
ED72/ Arik460EX
Lum 22 x 600 (3h 40mins)
RGB 40 mins in total
Grand total 4h 20mins.
Needed some nifty processing to get a sikc purse out of a Sow's ear.
#10
Astrophotography / Re: Timelapse video of the aur...
Last post by Carole - May 17, 2024, 17:33:44Absolutely stunning Rick.
I need to speak to Raf as to how I can get one of these videos onto the members images. If all else fails I will do some screen shots
Carole
I need to speak to Raf as to how I can get one of these videos onto the members images. If all else fails I will do some screen shots
Carole