maryjohn6781
Heart and Soul 3
Three versions of Heart and Soul nebulae and double cluster in Perseus. With integration time of 10 hours and 16 minutes its my biggest project yet. I planned to shoot more, probably for as long as 30 hours, but after a few nights i decided to process it. First I wanted to process it really precisely, but then i somehow changed my mind and went for pretty simple and basic way. I just stretched it, did some selective tweaks and that was pretty much it. Lastly i changed brightness, contrast and color balance a little bit, and got this three versions. I will most likely process this data again and see what i can get with a little more time spend playing with the image, bot for now i am done with it. It was shot over 5 nights from bortle 5 and 4, with Nikon D3500 IR modified and 70-300mm f4.5-6.3 AF-P DX VR ED kit lens, tracked with unguided Star Adventurer 2i on Velbon Sherpa 200D tripod. Exposure times were 90-180 seconds long at different ISO settings (from 400-3200. All stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop with help of Starnet V2. I am pretty happy with the final images, although i might try to reprocess it in the future to see if i can make it look any better. If any of you would like to process it, i would gladly let you all the data or just a stacked image, just email me at astrowave000@gmail.com. I would love to see what others can get. I wish you all Clear skies for big projects like this one definitely was for me.
Heart and Soul 3
Three versions of Heart and Soul nebulae and double cluster in Perseus. With integration time of 10 hours and 16 minutes its my biggest project yet. I planned to shoot more, probably for as long as 30 hours, but after a few nights i decided to process it. First I wanted to process it really precisely, but then i somehow changed my mind and went for pretty simple and basic way. I just stretched it, did some selective tweaks and that was pretty much it. Lastly i changed brightness, contrast and color balance a little bit, and got this three versions. I will most likely process this data again and see what i can get with a little more time spend playing with the image, bot for now i am done with it. It was shot over 5 nights from bortle 5 and 4, with Nikon D3500 IR modified and 70-300mm f4.5-6.3 AF-P DX VR ED kit lens, tracked with unguided Star Adventurer 2i on Velbon Sherpa 200D tripod. Exposure times were 90-180 seconds long at different ISO settings (from 400-3200. All stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop with help of Starnet V2. I am pretty happy with the final images, although i might try to reprocess it in the future to see if i can make it look any better. If any of you would like to process it, i would gladly let you all the data or just a stacked image, just email me at astrowave000@gmail.com. I would love to see what others can get. I wish you all Clear skies for big projects like this one definitely was for me.