SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

So here, and fell free to download and play if you'd like too.

Lagoon Nebula, 120 second, 30 exposures, 3600 seconds total.

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BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Awesome shot.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Thanks Bruce!
No processing, as taken. Feel free to download if you'd like.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

no processing does mean no flats or darks?

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

One of my later YouTube compositions.

https://youtu.be/ogPtLJxZszc

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

It’s impossible for me to look at shots like this and not be gobsmacked at the enormity and grandeur of it all.
And God only knows how much is there that we are blind to.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

IC443 Jellyfish Nebula, 300 second exposures (5 minutes), 50 each, 15,000 seconds of data. (4.16 hours)

I really enjoy doing these "super piles" of images, locking on, ignoring meridian flips, and seeing what the Infinity compiles as the Earth turns.
Over the hours, the images take on a depth and detail I find amazing.
I started this trip when I began experimenting with no meridian flip imaging my configuration of my mount gave me.

Enjoy! Download if you'd like.

IC443-Jellyfish-Nebula-300s-50-15000s-w

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SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

It looks so tiny from here. But these are incredibly enormous expanses in the Universe.
I'm sure God only knows, because we are but mold on an orange by comparison.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Hi. Not by me.
The Infinity camera stacks the images as they come in. Often I use the auto feature, but just as often I will manually adjust the Black, Middle, and White to what looks best to me.
The camera has a dark library built in.

And come to think of it, I am getting a lot of "Rainbow Sprinkles" lately and was wondering why. (Those are hot pixels appearing across the image.) So Brilliant, I may have to build a new library into the Atik software! You've sparked some ideas to get me off the fence.

I've been away from my telescope for a while (about 6 months), and I'm quite rusty. But catching up again.
I was musing over the sprinkles. And I may need to turn on some things, or rebuild some.

But a On-shot Color camera is a bit of a different animal than a Monaural camera where each color is filtered into the matrix. Many/most prefer to do the file building, and the hours after hours of post processing.
I'm different. I like OSC cameras, and manipulate the image with time. OSC cameras have the color matrix fixed and sealed into them by the factory. I can still use some filtering, and do, but it affects the entire image.
I might need to see if they have come out with an update, or remove and reinstall my software to fix it.
I've done that before, to get an uncorrupted clean program.

Mostly, I just play around at this.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

SonnyE, you and Ballard are making me jealous. I haven't had my scope out for two months. I probably forgot everything I thought I knew.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

You are in good company, my Friend!
But, just like riding a bicycle, you pick it back up.
The bright side, you have the stuff, so not starting from scratch.

You can do it!

Now then, to address the Rainbow Sprinkles...

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

I like chocolate sprinkles but in NJ we call the chocolate ones jimmies

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

I get them also, it must mean we are close to the pot-o-gold.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Or the Pink Hearts.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

🙃🙃🙃