Leo Triplet

[Fay]

60 x 30 secs with SC3. IR,FR and CLS filters.

Obviously needs longer. Not sure if gain was too high. If I process more, noise etc shows too much.


Fay,

[JohnP]

Hi Fay - That looks good - you have reprocessed it well. Why have you resized it (made it smaller) - the original that you sent me was 640 X 480 pixels yet the one you have posted on the forum is 496 X 372 pixels.. It's a little too small - the 640 X 480 is a perfect size. Any chance you can post the full size image..

Thks,  John

[Fay]

Hi John,

I posted it via Flickr & chose the medium size. I will go in & get the large size & hope it does not show up too many imperfections.

Fay

[Fay]

A larger Leo

[Fay]

Can't do a larger Leo from Flickr, it is the same size. I must have made it smaller beforehand for the web.

Fay

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[Fay]

Leo Triplet

[Fay]

Leo Triplet

[Fay]

Whole pride of them now, sorry about that.


Fay

[Miriam]

Dear Fay
Impressed with your pictures  - well done!
Liked the comment about a whole pride of pictures!!

Miriam

[Tony G]

Well done Fay, lovely images, this is one of my goals is to image these.

And by the way I thought a triplet of triplets would be better.

Tony G

[Fay]

Thank you for your kind comments.


Fay

[Rick]

I posted it via Flickr & chose the medium size. I will go in & get the large size & hope it does not show up too many imperfections.

Yeah, Flickr's re-sizing can be a bit of a pain. Also, unless you pay for an account they seem to limit your images to a maximum width of 1024. Still, it's free, and a lot better than some...

[Rocket Pooch]

Well done Fay, they look good, you should let the Astronomiser guy have an image or two he will put it onto his web site.

Chris

[Fay]

Thanks a lot Chris. I want to ask you how you cure vignetting.

Being that I cannot get used to the SX, trying to see an image thru the noise, I put a FR on. It would not focus at first, so I took the plain glass protective filter off to get the FR nearer the camera as I could not get in close enough. I put the FR in various positions. Nearer the camera, in the centre of the other filters & at the front. I found a suitable position.

I was really pleased & thought I had cracked it when I got a good image of M42. I remembered that I could not see too much with the SC3 without the FR.
However, when I went to another subject, the vignetting was quite severe & I was a bit cheesed off that I had not sorted out my problem, as I had thought.
I should have put this on a new subject.

Fay

[Mike]

Fay - What can I say? Wow !! Well impressed. Well done.