M27 Dumbell DSC.

[Mac]

 
Finally nailed the guiding.
Cheers Robert for the advice, on setting the guiding up and the processing.

And here is the results.

6 * Lu at 5min guided.
3 Ha @ 5min   Red
2 Hb @ 5min   Blue
1 Oiii @5 min   Green

i still need to do more subs on the ha, hb & oiii but the result is ok.


Mac,

[JohnP]

Looking good Mac my man.... Stars are nice and round. So was this using the camera lens & adaptors that we sorted out...? There will be no stopping you now.....

Good job,  John

[Mac]

So was this using the camera lens & adaptors that we sorted out

aye that it was.
Robert sorted the guiding out by increasing the slew time so that the image moved far enough.

[Fay]

Great result Mac, glad you are good to go!

[Daniel]

Awesome man, with more subs that'll be a cracker!

Daniel
:O)

[RobertM]

Great image Mac !

As some further suggestions in MaximDL try the following before DDP if you haven't already:

Get rid of any fine gradients:
    Filter->Auto Remove Gradient on each stacked channel.

Background looks a bit green to my eyes but it could be these contact lenses!
    Color->Colour balance - Background level = Auto and Scaling% = Mouse (click on a star but you may need to play around with this!)

Hope that helps
Robert

[Mike]

Very nice but not sure about the green background.

[Daniel]

Oh, and you could flatten the noise on the Background a little bit more by moving the brightness for the black point a little higher, I read about the technique in astrophoto insight magazine in an article by Noel Carboni, been using it on all my images lately, really helps flatten things.

Daniel
:O)

[Rocket Pooch]

Well done Mac your in business now

I agree the green needs to come down a bit.

Chris

[MarkS]

Nice one Mac!  You've got good sharp stars there at 5 minute exposures - that guiding is working well.

Horrible green background and a few hot pixels but that's no problem at all.  Your data is very good so you'll be able enjoy experimenting with the processing to get a great looking image out of that.

Mark