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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Daniel on Oct 04, 2008, 15:11:24

Title: A few from last night
Post by: Daniel on Oct 04, 2008, 15:11:24
Hi All, last night was pretty damn good, there was a haze in the air, but the visibility was still excellent, could make out the full W of Cassiopeia, I normally can't see one of the stars on the very end.

Anyway, these are all quick processes, I shall do a proper job later.

I should also point out, the only one I spent considerable time on was IC1396, which I will add to my existing data later on, this was mainly a test to see what performed better out of 5 mins ISO 800 or my usual 10 mins ISO 320.

There's a good chance these will be quite blown out too, will need to transfer my images over to my work computer to process these on a decent monitor (can't beat CRT)

Horsehead was a last minute thing I did just to see what I'd get, it's only 4x300s

All in all, a great night.

Anyway, all images are 300s ISO 800, IC1396 hasn't been merged with my other data yet and all have minimum processing

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2912219936_c921954c34_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2912219322_7028a189ef_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2912218950_d7c2373cf9_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2911440649_e949db4802_o.jpg)
Title: Re: A few from last night
Post by: MarkS on Oct 04, 2008, 16:32:44

Daniel,

I'm looking forward to seeing those after processing - it looks like you've captured some good data there.  Which nebulae are they - I don't recognise them all.

I was out last night and from time to time (between the patches of haze) the sky was remarkably dark - especially from 1:30am - 3:30am

Mark

Title: Re: A few from last night
Post by: Daniel on Oct 04, 2008, 16:47:01
Hi Mark, Yes, Im looking forward to processing these properly. in descending order we have, Elephants trunk, Horsehead, Cone nebula with christmas tree cluster and Flaming star
Title: Re: A few from last night
Post by: Rocket Pooch on Oct 05, 2008, 15:09:17
Very good, you are getting some of the darker objects quite well.

Chris