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ngc6888 - last night...

Started by JohnP, Jun 11, 2008, 11:41:52

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JohnP

another late one last night....

did ngc6888 through zs66 - 20X5min subs with ha filter..

Ta,  John




Mike

Oooh the Crescent. That is a nice one in colour. Good image John.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

JohnP

Cheers Mike - It's tough doing rgb though when you only have about 2hrs of dark skies. I want to try this object again as I am still struggling with long exposure guiding.. I am sure I can get a lot more out of it if I could do 10min subs...

John

Mike

Yes it's surface brightness isn't great. This is the time of the year when you want a nice cooled one shot colour CCD.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

Fay

Very nice image, John. Even twice as nice with 10 min subs.
It is healthier to be mutton dressed as lamb, than mutton dressed as mutton!

MarkS


What an interesting object.  Nice one ...

JohnP

Thks Fay & Mark. Yep Mark it has loads going on it sits in a massive field of nebulosity - hints of which are just starting to show in mine. This is one of my favourite objects & I will try again. The image is a bit fuzzy as I have the same issue as you do i.e. drifting between subs.. Needs 10min subs to do justice.

John

Rocket Pooch


Rocket Pooch

This would have been ok if the camera did not have loads of hot pixels and thermal instability, its going back.


Fay

Chris, that image could have knocked me off my chair. Do you think you have a dodgy camera, hope it is not common to all of them. Be interesting to see what happens, & to see it taken with another Atik 314L. 
It is healthier to be mutton dressed as lamb, than mutton dressed as mutton!

Rocket Pooch

Yes I'm not happy with it, the camera should be stable and have few is any hot pixels, have a look in the middle of the image you will see the star trails caused by guiding errors.

This was a stack of 11 10 minute subs, I also have 6 10 minute O3's to add for a false colour image, but I might not post it becase of the hot pixels.


Chris


Mike

It is a nice image and your focus is spot on. But those hot pixels sure do ruin it. After paying all that money then it definitely needs to go back.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

MarkS

Chris,

You could improve the image by performing a sigma stack - that should remove most of the hot pixels.  I always have to do that as part of my Canon processing sequence to get rid of residual pixel problems after subtracting darks. 

Whether or not the sensor is outside its advertised tolerance is a matter for you to resolve with the supplier.  Maybe you should create a dark to identify the number of affected pixels.

Mark

I forgot to say that in spite of the hotties, it really is a beautiful image.

Mike

It does seem to have a rather large number of hot pixels. I think I would send it back if it were mine.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

Rocket Pooch

Hi,

Ok reprocessed and it looks ok, but I don't think the cooling is great.



False colour version will be on the way.