Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
DickC wrote:
Wow! What a nice photo, thanks!!
Hi DickC
Thanks for checking out the image of M101 I took and for the comment. I have since updated the image with 3 hours of HA subs. If you are interested you can see the newer version I posted today at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-699728-1.html
DonVA
Loc: British Columbia and New Mexico
Nice setup. I've got a 1200 with a 14" Ritchie Cretien on it. Not too happy with my camera though. An old STL 1100 with a class B chip in it. Thinking of trying my Canon RP on it.
What are you using?
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
DonVA wrote:
Nice setup. I've got a 1200 with a 14" Ritchie Cretien on it. Not too happy with my camera though. An old STL 1100 with a class B chip in it. Thinking of trying my Canon RP on it.
What are you using?
Hi Don
I got a second hand STXL 11002, it is old but works, but has a number of dead pixels. I have used my Canon 5D MarkIV and it has worked well but blocks all the HA and without cooling does have some noise in the image.
Here is an example of what I was able to get with the DSLR.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-652657-1.htmlIf had to do it all over I would probably look into one of the new CMOS cameras using the Sony chip that has a QE of over 80%. (of course I would still want a DSLR or an RP for regular photography).
DonVA
Loc: British Columbia and New Mexico
Yes, I was looking at those as well but decided to put my limited photo budget into a camera that I could use during the daytime.
I have found that astro-photography is a function of money spent. All the way from a cell phone snapshot of the sky to the Hubble. That and the brutal on going learning curve has me focusing on conventional photography at the moment.
But keep showing your stuff. I love to see it.
Don
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
DickC wrote:
Wow! What a nice photo, thanks!!
Hi DickC
Thanks for checking out the image of M101, for the comment and the Thumbs up.
DickC
Loc: NE Washington state
Ballard wrote:
Hi DickC
Thanks for checking out the image of M101, for the comment and the Thumbs up.
Your most welcome, I love to read about the Universe and photos of the stars and galaxies!! Thanks for posting!
P.S.: I put your photo in my 'Rogues Gallery'!
Sweet ! I believe you got an awesome image . Processing is my nemesis.
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
stepping beyond wrote:
Sweet ! I believe you got an awesome image . Processing is my nemesis.
Hi Ronnie
Thanks for checking out the image of M101 and for the comment. Note: the one at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-699728-1.html has Ha added in.
These shots were taken with an old second hand 11 megapixel Sbig camera. I hope to reshoot this one with my newer ZWO camera which I find is far superior in QE (80-90% vs 50%), chip noise, well depth, read noise and pixel density. I also want to try and see if the I can adapt the .7x focal reducer I've got to work with the F10 Meade as the scale misses a little of the outer fringes of M101.
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