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Kinch

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M33 Triangulum Galaxy
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:43:46 PM »
In early November, SE Spain: 4 x 600s Lum + total of 9 x 300s RGB. It may not be perfect but a huge leap forward for me.

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Lex

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Re: M33 Triangulum Galaxy
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2013, 08:36:02 PM »
Hi,

indeed a very nice result; especially with this "short" exposure!
What optics do you use?

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Kinch

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Re: M33 Triangulum Galaxy
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2013, 09:58:05 AM »
Hi Lex - thanks for the positive comments. I am lucky to have got a good second hand Tak FSQ106ED. I think the combination with the 460EX is great.....what is not great is my processing afterwards.....but over the coming months I know that I can improve that. Having got guiding now operational on my set-up (QHY 5 II with Tak FS60CB and PHD) my next job is to manage auto meridian flips so that I can perhaps get a full night of shooting on the same subject...i.e. make a big increase in exposure time in one nights shooting.

Just as an aside, I had seen on another site some time back that someone had put up a diagram of their set-up.....showing the spacing on their scope with SX cameras. I found it useful and did the same for my set-up. I will post it shortly (as this is ATIK forum) showing how my 460Ex connects to my Tak Scope. It may be useful to someone.

Kinch
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Kinch

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Re: M33 Triangulum Galaxy
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2013, 09:34:59 PM »
Decided to have another go at processing this......
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Lex

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Re: M33 Triangulum Galaxy
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2013, 10:39:51 PM »
Hi Kinch,

I like your first and your second example!
Have you got an uncompressed version somewhere, I think the jpeg compression is masking some of the image's highlights...
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Kinch

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Re: M33 Triangulum Galaxy
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2013, 11:12:24 PM »
Online I only have the JPEGs. I am looking closely and see that on the bigger stars I have to learn to sharpen them up some more. I have just now applied background neutralisation and it probably is a better quality, but not as 'soft' and not as pleasing to the eye.
Thanks for taking the time to look - maybe tomorrow I'll spend some more time on this.....and I agree, JPEG is nowhere as good as FIT files when one looks closely at Astro shots.
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Tak FSQ106ED     Tak FS60CB