Hi All!
I hope some of you got to do some imaging this weekend. I'm
went to a CCD workshop hosted by Jay Ballauer and the Three Rivers Foundation at the Bowen Ranch this weekend. I had a great time! I got to meet some really outstanding folks, and learned a lot. The weather was Iffy, and we spent most of both nights chasing sucker- holes in the clouds, but the Comanchie Creek facility and Bowen Ranch are amazing, and had some of the best skies I've seen when you did get a break in the clouds, and I did manage to get first-light with my new camera. I going to try an attach my first-light images. Please feel free to critique them, I know they could have been processed a lot better, but these where my first try, and I'm still kinda figuring everything out. I managed to align and stack some of them in CCDSoft, and set the Dark and Light limits in the histogram. I wanted to try playing with Curves in Photoshop, but haven't figured out how to open that dialogue window yet. At this point, I'm just proud that they turned out at all! All of them are fairly short, unguided exposures. I still haven't quite got the auto-guiding thing down yet, but I'm sure I'll get it figured out eventually, if I can just get a few nights off with clear skies!
Thanks, JDBraddy
I hope some of you got to do some imaging this weekend. I'm
went to a CCD workshop hosted by Jay Ballauer and the Three Rivers Foundation at the Bowen Ranch this weekend. I had a great time! I got to meet some really outstanding folks, and learned a lot. The weather was Iffy, and we spent most of both nights chasing sucker- holes in the clouds, but the Comanchie Creek facility and Bowen Ranch are amazing, and had some of the best skies I've seen when you did get a break in the clouds, and I did manage to get first-light with my new camera. I going to try an attach my first-light images. Please feel free to critique them, I know they could have been processed a lot better, but these where my first try, and I'm still kinda figuring everything out. I managed to align and stack some of them in CCDSoft, and set the Dark and Light limits in the histogram. I wanted to try playing with Curves in Photoshop, but haven't figured out how to open that dialogue window yet. At this point, I'm just proud that they turned out at all! All of them are fairly short, unguided exposures. I still haven't quite got the auto-guiding thing down yet, but I'm sure I'll get it figured out eventually, if I can just get a few nights off with clear skies!
Thanks, JDBraddy
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