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Posts Made By: Charles Hakes

April 17, 2010 05:45 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

NGC5907

Posted By Charles Hakes
That looks good - you have brought out those dust lanes nicely. Purely coincidence that I posted this same object this morning on the deep sky forum page.

http://www.fortlewis.edu/observatory/image_detail.asp?ID=188

April 17, 2010 05:49 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

The Leo Triplet

Posted By Charles Hakes
Great group. (Funny thing about more data -> more fun to look at.) And the rest of your recent posts are really nice. You must have been having a string of clear nights.

Charlie

April 17, 2010 08:14 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Splinter and Black Eye

Posted By Charles Hakes
Oops - NGC 5907 was flipped vertically. It is fixed now. (But can anyone really tell the difference on this one!?)

April 18, 2010 10:23 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Hickson 44

Posted By Charles Hakes
Very nice set. Good processing.

April 26, 2010 02:49 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Is a light box needed for good flats?

Posted By Charles Hakes
The link is to a set up for taking flats in the middle of the night. (This is either the second or third iteration, and there is now a smaller T-shirt hoop that is even a better fit.) And it works almost as good as dusk. There is a T-shirt on an embroidery hoop over the front of the scope, and a (hopefully) uniformly illuminated board it is looking at. These are not too bad, but the dusk sky has given generally better results. And I do like the T-shirt at dusk too. It may only be because of practice.

I should take a picture and post it of a light box "failure." Very ambitious, but not enough battery power...

http://www.fortlewis.edu/observatory/image_detail.asp?ID=118

Charlie

April 28, 2010 07:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M13 with AP 130mm F8.35 color and cropped

Posted By Charles Hakes
Well done. Nice processing. Those are always challenging for me to get right.

Charlie

April 28, 2010 08:51 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Virgo Cluster - Markarian's Chain

Posted By Charles Hakes
Very nice collection here. You made good use of your nights.

May 1, 2010 03:19 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M95 and M96

Posted By Charles Hakes
Nice. That really does show off how matched those two are. I don't know of any others so similar.

May 4, 2010 11:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New M 33 Image

Posted By Charles Hakes
Very cool M33. You got those star forming regions to stand out nicely.

May 6, 2010 11:09 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M51 Luminance - Nocturne Observatory

Posted By Charles Hakes
Nice image here. I can relate to those hazy skies. I like the light background on these monochrome shots too. That way you can see all the cool background stuff. As well as any imaging flaws, which I don't see here.

What were your thoughts behind selecting 5 minutes for subframes? Tracking? Saturation? Darks? I know with the LX200, I often can only get away with 5 minutes.

Charlie

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