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Posts Made By: Jason Boyce

April 1, 2007 12:16 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M5

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
Here is M3 from about a week ago.The same night as I shot My M5 posting awhile back.I was expeirmenting with guide settings this night,I shot this right after M5 and made a change to the settings.I was set waaay soft so the stars are not great sad I tossed my luminance because the stars were just too elongated so this is RGB only.


RGB 180sx10 each

Images Plus for stacking,reduction alignment.CS2 for levels,curves,sharpening and all the other stuff I forgot I did!

Tec 140 at F7
ST-2000xm CFW-8
G-11

I was trying to get some good star colors during processing,what do you think?
Comments and processing tips always welcome.

Thanks for looking,

Jason

April 16, 2007 02:16 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New scope first light M51

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
Here is a first light image from my new scope,a Vixen VC200L.
The collimation needs a little bit of a tweak but so far I like it!

This is a LRGB of M51.
Shot with excellent seeing and transparency for a change grin
Here are the details
L-480sx10 RGB 360sx8 each binned 1x1
Shot at 1206mm F6 using an AP 0.67x reducer

Images Plus for calibration,alignment and stacking.Photoshop for everything else.

Thanks for looking and your comments help me improve!

Jason

April 16, 2007 09:21 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M92

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi folks,
Here is another from the first night with my VC200L grin
I have shot M92 before,twice and always ran into a problem losing my guide star or picking up a hot pixel and ending up without any green or blue subs.


This night was only a little different,I didn't lose my guide star until I got a couple blue subs to work with.I believe some clouds rolled through.
So this is L-120sx15 RG-120sx10 B-120sx2
This is half size.
I expected worse with only 4 minutes of blue!

Images Plus for alignment,stacking and calibration.Photoshop for LRGB combine,levels,curves sharpening.

Hope it looks ok!

VC200L at F6
G-11
ST-2000XM-CFW8

Thanks for looking,

Jason

April 30, 2007 03:23 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M10

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
I finally got a clear night after a couple weeks of clouds and wouldnt you know it, the moon had to be shining bright.
Oh well,I guess I have to take the clear skies when I can get them.
It's amazing how much skyglow a ccd camera can pick up in a 3 minute sub and I had a difficult time removing it all.
Here is M10 from Saturday night and some details.

ST-2000xm
CFW-8
G-11 on a pier grin

180sx22 Luminance
180sx10 each RGB
CCDstack and Photoshop for processing.

Thanks for looking and let me know what you think.Does it look to overprocessed?

Jason



May 1, 2007 01:56 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M51 reprocessed

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hello,
A couple weeks ago I posted my first light image with my Vixen VC200L.I was happy with it at the time but after looking at it some more I decided to start over and try to end up with a more natural looking final image.
I reprocessed from scratch and used CCDstack for the preprocessing and Photoshop to finish it up.

I like this version better grin

Thanks for looking and advice welcomed!

Jason

Vixen VC200L
ST2000xm
G-11 on a pier grin

May 12, 2007 05:19 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M63

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,

I finally got a break in the clouds Thursday night grin
Conditions still far from ideal but the best I have had in a few weeks.

I ended up with a lot of gradient in the color subs and had to toss some out so I didn't have as much to work with as I hoped,had a hard time with the color balance.

Here's some specs for those interested,
L-600sx12
R-360sx5
G-360sx5
B-360sx4
CCD stack for calibration,alignment,stacking.
Photoshop for the LRGB combine,levels,curves and lots of noise reduction 8O

Thanks for looking,comments and tips always welcomed.

Jason

VC200L
St-2000xm
G-11 on a pier

May 25, 2007 10:51 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Old,reprocessed data

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
Wow,my weather just won't cooperate so I have been reprocessing some older data.I am convinced my skies won't clear until the full moon >sad
I liked how this one came out so decided to post it,it is M38 and NGC1907.

12.5 minutes each of RGB taken in January with my Tec 140 at F4.7
ST-2000xm
CCDStack and Photoshop for processing.
This is nearly full size with just a bit cropped off the edges grin

Thanks for looking and I hope your skies are better than mine!

Jason

May 26, 2007 08:40 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Another oldy but goodie?

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
Here is another I went after again,the double cluster.
I think I made some improvement on it grin
Shot back in November,it is 20 minutes each of RGB with a Tec 140 at F5.6 with a ST-2000xm on a G-11.

Something I love about this hobby is there is always more to learn!
Thanks for looking,
Jason

June 6, 2007 09:51 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M81,82 rehashed again!

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
My skies refuse to clear up so I have been going through some older data.
I decided to give this one another try as I was never very happy with my previous results.

I tried to reduce the noise without killing the background detail to much but it is a little darker than I wanted.

105 minutes of luminance and 49 minutes each of RGB.
Taken with a ST-2000xm on Tec 140 at F4.7

Thanks for looking!
Jason

June 10, 2007 10:29 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Crescent Nebula

Posted By Jason Boyce
Hi all,
Finally saw a clear night last Friday grin
This was going to be my first ha image but it was not to be.
It took me a bit of time to find and center this,I spent some time trying to get good guiding through the 6nm filter and got frustrated to the point where I decided to just shoot LRGB before it got to late.

I think I will need to go with a seperate guidecam or get lucky with a very bright guidestar in just the right place to shoot ha.I will try again and see if I can get the mount to cooperate.

Here is the image and some details,taken at prime focus of a Stellarvue SV80L piggyback on my VC200L on a G-11.

90 minutes Luminance and 45 minute each of RGB with the Red binned 2x2
All 3 minutes long,nowhere near long enough for this dim nebula as I did not pick up a lot of it sad

Thanks for looking,your critiques are always welcome,

Jason




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