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Astrophotography / Re: M 5 Globular cluster in Se...

Last post by The Thing - Today at 13:39:49

Thanks Carole. Noise Exterminator is a wonderful thing, as is a little Gaussian Blur on an over-sharpened image

A new trick for this image was to apply a depth of field filter in Affinity Photo to push back the smaller stars and make the brighter foreground one more prominent. Make the glob look more 3D. You can put this one in the competition if you like, full res is on the gallery.

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Astrophotography / Re: M 5 Globular cluster in Se...

Last post by Carole - Yesterday at 15:38:05

Amazingly good and noise free for only 14 minutes. 

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Astrophotography / M 5 Globular cluster in Serpen...

Last post by The Thing - Yesterday at 13:10:12

Only 7x120s at unity gain and temperature of 0C. The other 30 subs were marred by clouds and by mount vibrations from my old NEQ6 blurring everything or periodic error issues or just plain old inaccurate guiding, this mount is a bit rough despite belt drive and upgraded bearings. Liberal use of BlurExterminator turned it into a fair image.

Image date, time and location: 2024-05-24 00:00. Manche.France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio: Teleskop Service ClassicCassegrain 8" f12 fl 2463mm
Camera and filters used: QH294PROC OSC, Svbony UVIR
Processing applied: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Affinity Photo

#4

Astrophotography / Re: M82 HaLRGB

Last post by garrick - May 24, 2024, 17:31:22

Great vibrant image.

Clear skies

G

#5

Updates and Upsets / Monthly updates 2024...

Last post by Rick - May 23, 2024, 12:00:07

Last month's and this month's Members' Images presentations are now on the main website. Observing Notes will follow when I receive them...

Edit 24/5/24: ... and done.

#6

Astrophotography / Re: Moon - Gassendi region in ...

Last post by Roberto - May 22, 2024, 20:50:45

Glad you liked them! Have a go at collimating and getting that telescope working!

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Astrophotography / Re: Moon - Gassendi region in ...

Last post by The Thing - May 22, 2024, 20:32:48

If I ever get my Classic Cassegrain collimated properly I might get some roughly similar pics (fantasy beast) but they wouldn't compete with these excellent views. 

[Moon - IR 742nm - 19 May 2024 - Copernicus and Gassendi]

#8

Astrophotography / Moon - Gassendi region in IR

Last post by Roberto - May 22, 2024, 14:31:28

Taken on Sunday night using the 10" f/20 Maksutov in good seeing (despite the low altitude of the Moon):

Moon - IR 742nm - 19 May 2024 - Copernicus and Gassendi

Details here:  https://www.astrobin.com/5do8fd/B/

Gassendi crater, rimae and Mersenius rimae



Copernicus - fully illuminated



Roberto

#9

Astrophotography / Re: More light than dark from ...

Last post by Roberto - May 21, 2024, 07:49:08

Carole

Thank you.  You can download the .gif file from here or Astrobin. Do you still need it as a file?

Roberto

#10

Astrophotography / Re: More light than dark from ...

Last post by Carole - May 21, 2024, 01:04:33

A nice selection Roberto.  amazing you can get that faint nebulosity from Petts Wood.

Any chance of letting me have the file of the prominence animation, so I can send it to Raf so it will play on Members Images. 

arole