"More Up Stuff" shot this week.
Nov 30, 2017 08:53:29 #
Besides the Sun Moon composite I did a short one hour exposure (30 second images in LRGB and there is not much color as a result) on M45 while waiting on IC405 the Flame Nebula. The Flame was 150 image 14 hour exposure taken over Sun Mon and Tue of this week. Most of the narrowband images were 300 sec exposures but I also added 30, 600 second exposures.
Nov 30, 2017 10:12:17 #
Too bad you didn’t have more color in your M45, it looks good. I want to try this one, I understand it is a difficult one to get.
The Flaming Star Nebula has nice detail, what was the time for each filter, my personal preference is to have more Ha?
(My last update for my NB filters are early 2018...pushing a year since I’ve ordered)
The Flaming Star Nebula has nice detail, what was the time for each filter, my personal preference is to have more Ha?
(My last update for my NB filters are early 2018...pushing a year since I’ve ordered)
Dec 1, 2017 08:19:25 #
The color was missing in M45 because I took 30 R, 30 G, 30 B, and 40 L all of which were 30 second exposures. I believe were I to take the same number at 60 seconds I would see some more color.
A shot an equal number of Ha, Sii, and OIII.
On the last night I decided to add some 10 minute exposure as the information that I had collected todate just look puny at 5 minutes. In fact, were I to reshoot this.....I would expose all photos for 10 minutes. The Flame was pretty faint at a visual magnitude of +10 as compared to M31 which is +3.4.....but I thought 5 minutes at F/4.8 (SV70T with .8 reducer) would be a gracious plenty.
I may be wrong but I think if I just processed the 10, 10 minute images that I took at each emission line and discarded all of the 5 minute shots... the image would be just as data rich.
The fun is in the trying! playing around and learning.
The "sun" stuff has me baffled. I consider myself pretty good at PS but getting a good layered sun with proms without dark line around the limb has me stumped. If anyone has a perfected this I would be really interested in knowing "how"!!
A shot an equal number of Ha, Sii, and OIII.
On the last night I decided to add some 10 minute exposure as the information that I had collected todate just look puny at 5 minutes. In fact, were I to reshoot this.....I would expose all photos for 10 minutes. The Flame was pretty faint at a visual magnitude of +10 as compared to M31 which is +3.4.....but I thought 5 minutes at F/4.8 (SV70T with .8 reducer) would be a gracious plenty.
I may be wrong but I think if I just processed the 10, 10 minute images that I took at each emission line and discarded all of the 5 minute shots... the image would be just as data rich.
The fun is in the trying! playing around and learning.
The "sun" stuff has me baffled. I consider myself pretty good at PS but getting a good layered sun with proms without dark line around the limb has me stumped. If anyone has a perfected this I would be really interested in knowing "how"!!
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