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Horeshead and Flame nebula

Started by flacatman, 12/12/2007 02:19AM
Posted 12/12/2007 02:19AM Opening Post
This is two, fifteen minute subs. Notice the lovely airplane trail, right through the horse. Naturally, on the second and final shot of the evening. Hopefully, with a few more subs stacked on to these two, the light streak will average out. Equipment is the same as for the M42 I posted. Again, comments welcome.

Joe Moskowitz

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Posted 12/12/2007 03:55AM #1
Hi Joe,
If the software that you use to stack has a sigma noise reduction, it will remove the streak.
More exposures will give you a better signal to noise and improve the resolution.
If you can not do long exposures, then more is the way to go. Plus if there is a bad exposure then you do not lose that much time.

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Posted 12/12/2007 04:15AM | Edited 12/12/2007 04:16AM #2
Nice going Joe! 8) great widefield...

Would you care to share what equipment & settings were used for this shot?

It seems as if you have some vignetting, as your image shows a large "round & bright" area in the middle of your shot, with darker edges...



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