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Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: Whitters on Nov 30, 2003, 05:51:00

Images taken between midnight and 01:30 on 28th November.
Using MX916 2x2 binned Ha filter taken from Hayes Bromley

NGC2244 and the Rosette neb
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul_whitmarsh/Astronomy/Images/MX916/Nov_28_2003/NGC2244_ha2.png)

Arround Zeta Orionis
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul_whitmarsh/Astronomy/Images/MX916/Nov_28_2003/Flame_ha.png)

M42
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul_whitmarsh/Astronomy/Images/MX916/Nov_28_2003/M42_ha.png)

Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: JohnP on Nov 30, 2003, 06:18:00

Hi Paul,

Great! - I love the horsehead in the 2nd image - When I Long Exposure mod my Toucam this will be my first target.

Thks, John.

Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: Sue on Nov 30, 2003, 19:19:00

Beautiful images Paul.

Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: Rocket Pooch on Dec 01, 2003, 04:35:00

Wow again!

Like the horse head.

Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: Ian on Dec 01, 2003, 05:18:00

fine pieces of work Paul. Juat a question though, the pic of M42 seems a little quantised like you're missing dynamic range. Is it an artifact of the jpg compression?

Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: Whitters on Dec 01, 2003, 05:54:00

I was playing arround streching the histogram. Need to have another go at this one.

Title: First light with 300mm f5.6
Post by: Whitters on Dec 01, 2003, 05:56:00

PS I don't use JPG, I store the images as 24bit PNG's. This appears to provide a better compression algorithm.

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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Whitters on Nov 30, 2003, 05:51:00