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Thanks Che and Alcor!

ChrisH

I completed this tonight after waiting weeks for an opportunity. ngc2264 Rosette nebula in HST palette (10 x 1200s each of Ha, OIII and SII 3nM Astrodon). Each channel was processed separately in StarTools 1.4b prior to compositing and colour adjustments. Scope: NP127is + 0.8x reducer CCD: Atik490EX...

Like! Those bright stars are hard to keep under control. Did you have any problems with that? Thanks Ivo, there was not much I could do with the major stars so I just masked them out and left them as they were while applying decon to the nebulous stuff. It was not a good night to be doing this anyw...

This is an RGB image taken tonight under a near-full moon (yes I know, I'm mad...). Trouble was the moon was sat on top of most of the other objects I'm currently imaging, well I have never imaged M45 before so thought I'd give it a shot. The result was some fairly noisy data (10 x 300s each channel...

Many thanks, much appreciated

ChrisH

Thank you, somehow I'm just really not happy with the results haha, maybe it's seeing all the other beautiful ones around with similar data. Those were 10 x 90seconds... I did however take 40 subs, I could try to stack them all... wasn't sure that would make a big difference. I also have 2x 300 sec...

Well to be honest your result looks good, especially given the short 90sec subs, and I couldn't get a significantly better image out of your data. I've been using 180 and 300sec subs and the histogram was still only 25-30%, that was using a Canon 70D. I also used an LPAS light pollution filter which...

I aquired this back in October but it just won the BBC Hotshots POTM in this month's magazine. You can also preview at small scale here http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/issue/february-2015 . Anyway, it was StarTools v1.3 that processed the data and in particular StarTools' wonderful noise reduction...

Excellent Che!

ChrisH

Ok, I'll just come out and say it... *how* are you cranking out such amazing images in such rapid succession!? :shock: May I ask how long you've been doing this? Your processing is of a very high caliber (as I think I said before). If you don't mind, tells us a little about yourself! Thanks Ivo! In...