Lots of problems here but might aswell post it B33 Horsehead nebula

[Daniel]

Here's an image of the horsehead I took with the hyperstar last week, I didn't show it before because the flats i took with it made it unworkable (or just not worth the effort) that said, the new sky flats I took seem to have fixed that problem (except for that faint strip down the bottom) so I thought I'd process it a bit anyway.

It's far from great, the day I took it wasn't ideal and im still learning with this equipment, I think Ha imaging is the way to go, but anyway, here it is

Daniel
:O)

[JohnP]

Daniel, If that's a 'far from great one' I can't wait to see a good one.... Looks pretty awesome from where I am sitting - it's a lovely FOV & you have really held back well on not saturating/ bloating Alnitak..

John

[Carole]

I think that's great, and as John says a good FOV and interesting to see a slightly different angle to the ones others have taken.

Carole

[Fay]

Daniel, great picture, how did you hold Alnitak back while not affaecting the rest of the image? What were exposure details?

[RobertM]

That's a wonderful image Daniel and you've done a really excellent processing job on it.  The way you've kept Alinitak in check and made it a feature rather than a pain is astonishing.  I'll have to book a PS lesson or start sending you my images to process   It could do with more exposure but you've framed it really well and the FOV is just right.

Well done!!!

[Daniel]

Hi guy's thanks for the comments, there were a lot of gradients in this image that made me worry if I was capturing nebulosity, or just colouring light polution red. I'm afraid I can't take any credit for Alnitak, it just came out like that in the subs. It may be because of the extra dynamic range I got doing the subs at such a low ISO.

The FOV I got is one nice bonus when using the Hyperstar, because I have to flatten the field all the way across each time I use it, I don't have to try to put the object as dead center as I used to have to with the 120ED

Robert, I doubt there's much i could show you in photoshop, but I saw you mention teaching Fay about Maxim, i know very little about that program, so maybe we could all meet up some time and do a skills swap.

Daniel
:O)