Click here if you are having trouble logging into the forums Cloudy Nights - Official Forums of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy Privacy Policy | Please read our Terms of Service | Signup and Troubleshooting FAQ | Problems? PM a Red or a Green Gu.... uh, User   You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Astrophotography and Sketching >> Beginning Imaging Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 Richard Scott professor emeritus Reged: 07/25/06 Posts: 708 Loc: Tampa FL M3 in B&W       #1563708 - 04/24/07 11:23 AM Attachment (47 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   My best M3 to date. Before the mosquitoes ran me off last night, I caught M3 It is a combination of the best part of a 40 exposure stack at 15 sec and another best of 40 at 5 seconds, layer masked in Photoshop to better image the core. Imaged through a C11 on a CG-5 go to at F/3.15 I shot them in raw mode with the Orion StarSchoot DSI, and when I converted them to color in MaxIm DL Essentials , I lost so much faint detail in the conversion, I decided to process them as b&w. -------------------- 11” Celestron XLT SCT Orion ED80 APO CG-5 GEM JMI NGF-CM Focuser Orion SSDSI Meade DSI Pro an assortment of 1.25” & 2" stuff all tucked inside the Blue Moon Observatory http://tinyurl.com/29b9wn Basically more scope than my abilities warrant "I know I can never look upon the stars without wondering why the whole world does not become astronomers." Thomas Wright Post Extras:       Richard Scott professor emeritus Reged: 07/25/06 Posts: 708 Loc: Tampa FL Re: M3 in B&W [Re: Richard Scott]       #1563957 - 04/24/07 01:30 PM Attachment (25 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Tried the same files using Nebulosity, and it came out OK I think. I added s bit of sweetening in Photoshop, but Nebulosity held onto the faint stars very well. And Nebulosity batch processes raw to color. A big time saver. I must be doing something wrong in MaxIm, I tried stretching the file every way I could think of, but nothing put back what converting to color took away. Richard -------------------- 11” Celestron XLT SCT Orion ED80 APO CG-5 GEM JMI NGF-CM Focuser Orion SSDSI Meade DSI Pro an assortment of 1.25” & 2" stuff all tucked inside the Blue Moon Observatory http://tinyurl.com/29b9wn Basically more scope than my abilities warrant "I know I can never look upon the stars without wondering why the whole world does not become astronomers." Thomas Wright Post Extras:       nik hodges professor emeritus Reged: 04/20/07 Posts: 633 Loc: UK Re: M3 in B&W [Re: Richard Scott]       #1564138 - 04/24/07 03:10 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   very very nice -) -------------------- Flurostar 110 [TMB] with TAK TOA/FS 0.75 reducer Megrez 80mm triplet apo & mkIII FF "LX200R" (8") with AP CCDT67 reducer & moonlight focuser StarlightXpress SXVF-H16 camera/trutek filter wheel DSI Pro II Maxim DL/Maxpoint + adobe PS3extended On AP900 notification list Post Extras:       neoweb Pooh-Bah Reged: 12/10/06 Posts: 1482 Loc: UK Re: M3 in B&W [Re: nik hodges]       #1564410 - 04/24/07 05:25 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Very well captured indeed... both images look superb! -------------------- Celestron StarHopper 8" f/6 Dob 38mm Burgess 2" SWA | 30mm Ultima | 20mm Omni 17mm Hyperion | 12.5mm Baader Ortho 8mm TV Plossl | 6mm TMB/BO Planetary Orion Shorty Plus barlow 15 X 70mm Skymasters Saturn-like: desktop image Post Extras:       bobalex sage Reged: 02/24/07 Posts: 431 Loc: Western Pennsylvania Re: M3 in B&W [Re: neoweb]       #1564635 - 04/24/07 07:05 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Very nice images, Richard! Bob -------------------- 10 inch Meade GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain 100 mm F-6 Orion refractor 60 mm F-15 Refractor w/Lumicon HA Filter 4.5 inch F-4 Orion Starblast reflector 80 mm short tube Orion refractor Adirondak Stellacam EX Video Camera Post Extras:       s58y Post Laureate Reged: 12/12/04 Posts: 4850 Loc: Eastern NY Re: M3 in B&W [Re: bobalex]       #1564752 - 04/24/07 07:51 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice - good resolution with lots of faint stars and no burned-out center. -------------------- Hutech 30D, SBIG ST-402 autoguider SV80S, SV66 guidescope AP900, G-11, Barndoor tracker http://www.pbase.com/s58y Post Extras:       Dr Nick scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 01/27/06 Posts: 798 Loc: Glen Innes, NSW, Australia Re: M3 in B&W [Re: s58y]       #1565384 - 04/25/07 01:29 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice well done! -------------------- Clear Skies, Nick http://www.NicksAstronomy.com Sky Watcher 8" f/5 Newtonian(which I got when I was 10yrs old and 5yrs later I'm still adding to) w/JMI motofocus/standard, axis guider. 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