Taken at Cairds campsite on Friday 27-10-2017
Been trying to get this for 2 years but never seemed to be in the right place at the right time (hopeless from home). I got some nice luminance previously but could never seem to get any colour. So I hedged my bets and put the DSLR on the 2nd scope, but have not processed that data yet.
WO ZS71 & Atik 460EX + FR x 0.8
Lum 11 x 600
Ha 12 x 600
RGB 11 x 150 each binned x 2
5 hours of data
Stacked in Astroart, processed in Photoshop including Mark's arcsinh star colour process, and registered in Registar.
(http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/66e9b96b23c7ec34d644da84af71555d.1824x0_q100_watermark_watermark_opacity-25_watermark_position-4_watermark_size-S_watermark_text-Carole%20Pope.jpg)
Going back to Cairds tonight, hoping to grab a bit more luminance.
Carole
Very nice Carole, I particularly like the arc of stars peeping through the dust just left of centre.
Thanks Duncan
Stunning!
Roger
Thanks Roger
That has come out really nicely Carole!
It's a difficult target, so it shows to me that you had good skies on Friday night. The sky at High Halden was slightly better than average but I made the schoolboy error of leaving the Bahtinov mask on the scope during the imaging session. :oops:
With more luminance it should look even better still.
Mark
Thanks Mark. Still waiting for the Moon to set, then hopefully a little more Luminance.
Carole