M13 and first light

More or less first light with my first SBIG camera (parallel ST-8E), at least worth posting. Have to do some more work with CCDsoft before I get comfortable with it. Blooms are something to address. I tried Ron Wodaski's debloomer plug in for CCDsoft but could not get it to work at all. Some kind of library error. Anyone with alternate solutions, don't hold back.

4 x 120seconds
AP140 prototype
Losmandy G11 (non goto)


Comment greatly appreciated,
Robert

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Hi Robert,

The image looks great, nice scope!! I recently have moved to the ST-10XME which also blooms. CCDstack does a really good job and is just a pleasure to use, it is expensive but worth it. CCDsoft is ok for aquisition, but data handling is very cumbersome. CCDops also has a bloom removal tool which works ok too.

cheers,

Jeff

Great shot Robert.

Speaking of blooms all,

If folks needed to do both ddp, and deblooming, and could purchase CCDStack or Maxim but not both, which would you choose? I understand the CCD stack debloomer is very nice as is the sigma combine, but that the DDP in maxim is the ultimate. Trying to decide what to do.

Kevin

Hi Robert,
I tried the CCDStack Bloom Removal and it too did not remove the blooms? Not sure why, maybe because it was a JPG file?
So, I removed them manually in CS2, here is my result.

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