Another work in progress. This one from last night.
21 x 5min using modified EOS 350D on C11 at F6.3
I'll process it better when I get home.
This has been 3x3 binned and then cropped.
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10046/cocoon290808.jpg)
Lovely image Mark, I really like all the grey cloudy nebulosity that's showing up and the colour looks natural (if one can use that term ! with astrophotography!)
yep fantastic again Mark... When you coming home you are seriously depressing me wth all these images you keep posting...!!!!!
John
That's lovely Mark, again, one of those objects I just can't get anything more than a smudge out of here
I drive home Sunday :-(
One question about binning DSLR images, I've tried the binning in IRIS and that tends to blow out the image quite a bit, however when I do it in MaxDSLR, it doesn't but I don't really see any improvement over bicubic resizing in photoshop, am I doing anything wrong?
Daniel,
In IRIS, to prevent blowout, do a "mult 0.25" before 2x2 binning or "mult 0.11" before 3x3 binning.
very nice i love the blue bits
Here is the re-processed version.
32 x 5min using modified Canon EOS350D on Celestron C11 and F6.3 reducer.
2x2 binned and cropped.
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10046/cocoon290808~0.jpg)
Wow, that fabulous mark.
Carole
Great image, Mark. The modified camera's certainly do a good job!
Fay
Really superb image Mark. Some of the best detail in the Cocoon i've seen.
Thanks for you comments.
One thing that also helped was that the seeing was quite reasonable that night. One annoying thing is that I lost approx 8 subs because of dewing: I dozed off and then awoke to find dew on the telescope corrector plate :-(
You want a dew alarm you do.
Fantasic image Mark, especially on such a "git" of an object, really nice processing too, love the patches of dark nebula around the outside.