M57

[Rocket Pooch]

Look I managed to stack 2 frames from the 7 excellent frames I have, the others I'm having problems with aligning.  Here's M57 from Tripes Farm on Tuesday morning.





If you squint, you can see both central stars.

[JohnP]

Very Impressive! You can even see detail in the 'bands' What exposure did you use?

John

[Whitters]

Nice one Chris, as John said what are the details, what camera are you using?

[Rocket Pooch]

It was a quick shot from the field on Monday night using the SAC8 and 25 secon exposures with 0 gain.  Collimation was about 90% much better than my last deep sky session, I think this helped the bands come out.  This is a stack of 2 frames, I have about 5 more I could stack if I could get the software to do what I wanted.  The LX90 was at prime focus.

[JohnP]

This might be a totally stupid idea but seeing you have so few frames couldn't you manually stack them in PS6 or similiar. You could set transperency to 50% or so & then overlay them ontop of each other & flatten composite & then reload into Registax for adjustment etc. Just a thought.

John

[Rocket Pooch]

Great idea, I'll e-mail them to you

[Mike]

Chris,

If you want access to the colour ones from the D70 I could post them to my website for you to download.

[Rocket Pooch]

I want that moon image, I claim 50% of it, yeh go on tell me where to get them.