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Title: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: Daniel on Jul 26, 2009, 15:58:49

Hi All, must say its great to finally get some time under relatively clear skies with a newly collimated Hyperstar.

I took these (except the M31) last night, was very suprised I managed to get the Triffid nebula, although there's no way i could get anything lower than this as half of this image was blocked by fence, I think about 1/10th of the apperture was actually gathering any light. I may have to re-stack Triffid as I think a few bad subs sneaked in there (bit of stretching on some stars)

I've also tacked on a re-process of the M31 image from yesterday, this has a better black point and hopefully reveals more of the outer detail as well as getting rid of the colour gradients

Anyway, details are :-

All images taken with Hyperstar on C14 with Canon 40D

Alberio - 19x25s ISO 640

M16 - 49x60s ISO 320

Triffid - 24x60s ISO 320

M31 - 60x90s ISO 320

Flats and Darks Applied to all

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2547/3757527083_b30a501293.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2559/3757418341_20044a5b64_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/3757418907_5f7bca8b94_o.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/3758324490_0397656579_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3757528407_1271af1cf3_o.jpg)

Daniel
:O)

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: RobertM on Jul 26, 2009, 16:11:19

Crikey Daniel, I'd like to see what you could do under a dark site !

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: Daniel on Jul 26, 2009, 16:15:50

Oh to take the hyperstar to a dark site, the one thing it suffers with are heavy gradients, if I could go much longer without those gradients the depth of the images could be incredible.

Daniel
:O)

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: MarkS on Jul 26, 2009, 20:21:52

Daniel,

To get that lot in one night is incredible - that's about 6 month's worth of imaging! I love that Eagle Nebula.

To think you are doing all that with a DSLR from a heavily light polluted site. You really must get that kit to a dark site - you would get some stunning images.

Well done.

Mark

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: JohnP on Jul 26, 2009, 20:29:28

Excellent Daniel - Great night imaging... John

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: Rocket Pooch on Jul 26, 2009, 20:32:37

Well done Daniel, pretty good.

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: Fay on Jul 26, 2009, 23:12:52

They are really good, Daniel, hope you don't get bored, as you will have taken every subject you can, with a few good nights!

Title: Re: Mammoth imaging sesh, including one that took me by suprise
Post by: Carole on Jul 27, 2009, 12:22:40

Flippin' heck, what a session that was, and what fantastic results as well.

Carole

Orpington Astronomical Society

Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Daniel on Jul 26, 2009, 15:58:49