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M45 Pleiades
This is the first long exposure image I've taken since acquiring a new kit a couple of months ago, and even though it didn't go according to plan, it does show the incremental progress I was counting on.
I got the new DSLR shutter release remote working for the first time, and was hoping for several hours of data. What I did get was 16x180s decent exposures out of 32 taken before the laptop, hence the guider, shut down on me, and having forgotten to charge the backup batttery (so many things to keep in mind for a newby!), my night was done without even getting any dark images, bias or lights, to calibrate the final image.
Half my images were useless from star trails, probably from a jostling of the tripod that I thought was not as serious as it seemed to turn out, and even this image shows signs of it.
So this is 16 stacked images of 3 minutes each (1600iso) with some adjustment in DeepSkyStacker to acquire contrast, with some false blue added in a totally inadequate microsoft photo editor, because my wife won't let me get Adobe Photoshop CC until Christmas!
M45 Pleiades
This is the first long exposure image I've taken since acquiring a new kit a couple of months ago, and even though it didn't go according to plan, it does show the incremental progress I was counting on.
I got the new DSLR shutter release remote working for the first time, and was hoping for several hours of data. What I did get was 16x180s decent exposures out of 32 taken before the laptop, hence the guider, shut down on me, and having forgotten to charge the backup batttery (so many things to keep in mind for a newby!), my night was done without even getting any dark images, bias or lights, to calibrate the final image.
Half my images were useless from star trails, probably from a jostling of the tripod that I thought was not as serious as it seemed to turn out, and even this image shows signs of it.
So this is 16 stacked images of 3 minutes each (1600iso) with some adjustment in DeepSkyStacker to acquire contrast, with some false blue added in a totally inadequate microsoft photo editor, because my wife won't let me get Adobe Photoshop CC until Christmas!