M31 with a 66mmPosted By Larry Durst |
Joe,
Wow!
Larry
Wow!
Larry
Posts Made By: Larry Durst
July 19, 2007 04:49 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
July 20, 2007 02:54 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
A BUSY night...Posted By Larry Durst |
Busy, indeed! They're all terrific, Ivan. Actually, it's your processing that really wows--I'm amazed at what you pull out of images with just 20 minutes, particularly on those fainter nebs. Hope you get a chance to fight the mosquitoes again soon!
Larry
Larry
July 20, 2007 05:54 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
NGC6207Posted By Larry Durst |
Glad to see you up and running...and with a spectacular image, too. You had me scrambling to look this one up. I love that you got that little guy on the upper left, too.
Welcome back,
Larry
Welcome back,
Larry
July 24, 2007 12:33 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
M27 - SV NighthawkPosted By Larry Durst |
Eric,
Looks like your guiding is on track to me! Great shot. And I agree with you about the 3.3 FR--it gives an amazing amount of coma, so you'd need a pretty small chip to avoid it I imagine. I use mine now for guiding my LX90 to get more stars.
Larry
Looks like your guiding is on track to me! Great shot. And I agree with you about the 3.3 FR--it gives an amazing amount of coma, so you'd need a pretty small chip to avoid it I imagine. I use mine now for guiding my LX90 to get more stars.
Larry
July 31, 2007 01:33 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
M11 last nightPosted By Larry Durst |
Floyd,
You definitely seemed to have achieved "round-dom" with your stars! Nice color, too. If you don't mind a comment or two, I'm wondering if you didn't clip your black point a bit (I'm at work, so I'm really guessing). I'm also betting that there's more detail hidden there. If you can try a non-linear or curves stretch, it's a better route to increasing contrast and showing detail than overdarkening. There are some good tutorials out there that really helped me. (You can check our Warren Keller's for a start.)
Hope you don't mind my two cents.
Keep it up,
Larry
You definitely seemed to have achieved "round-dom" with your stars! Nice color, too. If you don't mind a comment or two, I'm wondering if you didn't clip your black point a bit (I'm at work, so I'm really guessing). I'm also betting that there's more detail hidden there. If you can try a non-linear or curves stretch, it's a better route to increasing contrast and showing detail than overdarkening. There are some good tutorials out there that really helped me. (You can check our Warren Keller's for a start.)
Hope you don't mind my two cents.
Keep it up,
Larry
August 4, 2007 03:08 AM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
Dumbbell NebulaPosted By Larry Durst |
Greg,
Glad you got a chance at one of our Northern Mainstays! And what an image: great color, texture and you really got a lot of detail on the lobes.
Larry
Glad you got a chance at one of our Northern Mainstays! And what an image: great color, texture and you really got a lot of detail on the lobes.
Larry
August 4, 2007 03:10 AM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
Guide camera arrived!Posted By Larry Durst |
Can't wait to see those first five minute subs! Have fun.
Larry
Larry
August 5, 2007 06:34 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
Auto-Guiding question.Posted By Larry Durst |
Floyd,
Don't have an answer since I use different camera to image and diffent software for it. But you might also try asking over on the Yahoo Stark-Labs group and the DSI group. Both are quite active.
Larry
Don't have an answer since I use different camera to image and diffent software for it. But you might also try asking over on the Yahoo Stark-Labs group and the DSI group. Both are quite active.
Larry
August 11, 2007 12:59 AM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
Last night, first long exposuresPosted By Larry Durst |
Floyd,
Well done! It just gets better from here! It really is something when guiding gets going, isn't it? BTW, I have found that software-aided guiding, such as in AstroArt or others, really makes a difference.
Can't wait to see more,
Larry
Well done! It just gets better from here! It really is something when guiding gets going, isn't it? BTW, I have found that software-aided guiding, such as in AstroArt or others, really makes a difference.
Can't wait to see more,
Larry
August 13, 2007 08:00 PM
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CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky
M31 -- brighterPosted By Larry Durst |
Looks amazing on my Thinkpad! Great image.
Larry
Larry
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