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Posts Made By: Brian Maynard

October 9, 2005 03:17 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M1

Posted By Brian Maynard
Even with the images from Hubble I just don't see a crab.
I'm not sure which is more work. Packing everything up to go to a dark site or all the processing to remove light pollution. This is RRGB only. I took an hours worth of luminance but the red looked much better so I used it for the luminance. I think some Ha is in order. I didn't realize it looked so good in red. Lots of tools used here. Maxim 4 for imaging and combining, SD Mask
Fits liberator for Photoshop CS
Russ Croman's gradient Xterminator
Astronomy Actions for PS (some nice shortcuts)
CCDOPS for hot and cool pixel removal.
I still can't get that killer star color. Alot of the brighter stars reached near saturation levels, thats one problem.
Mewlon 250
ST2000 w/ standard filters
R 3x10
G 3x10
B 3x15

October 14, 2005 08:52 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

I need a Mars fix

Posted By Brian Maynard
The seeing has been terrible for about a month now. You'd think it would ease up a bit. For one night anyway. But instead it's just a bowl of jello. So, here's what I get. It's small it's blurred it's 56 frames out of 2700 :C . But I guess as any other junkie would say, I'll take what I can get.

October 15, 2005 01:11 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 1931

Posted By Brian Maynard
A very interesting target. If your in the right spot. My light polluted location and that million watt light in the sky (moon) has hidden much of the nebula in this image. I'm not sure why I spent three and a half hours on it. If anything it is a processing exercise. In my defense however it is very small and dim. It's much like M42. It has sort of a Trapezium group of stars in the middle that illuminates the surrounding nebula.
Mewlon 250
ST2000
Ha 7x15
R 3x11
G 3x10
B 3x16

October 16, 2005 02:06 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

A piece of California

Posted By Brian Maynard
I might of gotten half of this. It's bigger than I thought. It's an Halpha image done in a false color in Photoshop. Tak FSQ106 and ST2000 5X20 min. In this field, I can fit 4 full moons (2x2). Its a massive object.

October 16, 2005 02:11 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Pacman

Posted By Brian Maynard
Ha in false color with the 106

October 16, 2005 02:16 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Flaming Star (re-work)

Posted By Brian Maynard
Yes, I was up all night imaging in the light of a silvery moon. Ha with the 106

October 18, 2005 08:53 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn

Posted By Brian Maynard
Mars continues to give me a hard time so I thought I'd try something even farther away :S . It's a little on the soft side.
Registax selects a lot of bad frames. I've raised the percentage and messed around with some filters but I still get some blobs with the better frames. Any help would be appreciated.

January 1, 2006 12:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

It's been awhile

Posted By Brian Maynard
I haven't imaged anything since early October. The sky doesn't clear up unless I'm at work. What a drag!! Last night I caught a break. I image M42 every year. Usualy it's a wide shot but this time I thought I'd try to image the core of this star making machine. It's also my first attempt at narrowband imaging.
C8 @ 6.3 perched on an EM200
ST2000 w/ SII, Ha, OIII for RGB
Guided with an ST402 and a TV76
About 2 hours of data. Image aquired and stacked with Maxim 4.11. Color combined and processed with Photoshop CS
Hope you like it and comments are always welcome.
Thanks

March 3, 2006 05:02 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn

Posted By Brian Maynard
C11 @f/20
Toucam w/IR block

March 9, 2006 08:05 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Re: DSI II & Filters

Posted By Brian Maynard
I haven't seen to many imagers on this site that use the DSI. I just bought one my self but it's the monochrome version and I haven't had a chance to use it yet. Check this site out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_DSI/ you should find some help there.

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