Sack of lots of images, but the single frames were almost as good as this – ask Rob!
You might be able to right-click and ‘view image’ to see the details
The Moon on Grand Conjunction Night
Neil Wyatt
Great Conjunction
A major miscalculation meant I had to abandon my ADC and my x3 barlow, a terrible same as I could have had a really good close image of the planets within the frame 🙁
In retrospect I should have imaged them separately with my usual setup, then taken a ‘;key image’ without the barlow to overlay them on. I’ll be ready again in 600 years time…
Without my ADC the red and green images of Jupiter were a bit stretched making it look a bit oval 🙂 Still I reckon better than the pics the BBC and the Guardian were using 😎
Some Marseses…
… as Gollum might put it.
Reprocess of my data from 13 September,
From Thursday last week:
And the day after, Friday at Rosliston, the seeing wasn’t as good and Mars wasn’t as high in the sky:
All with the same equipment, so sometimes it’s just down to the conditions… Andy’s to be congratulated for getting recognisable images on his first go under such poor seeing.
Five Planets last Sunday Night
A nice productive evening!
The processing was a bit of a marathon though…
Veil Mosaic
When I posted my East Veil shot I said I was going to try and do a mosaic! Here it is. This is a jpg as even a compressed PNG is huge, seems a little over-saturated now I’ve uploaded it.
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Experiments in processing
I spent the last couple of weeks in South Wales and had a run of clear nights. I got a lot of data by staying up far too late…
Here are four images, processed in a combination of Pixinsight, Photoshop, Astra Image and Deep Sky Stacker trying to make use of the best bits/bits I understand in each!
3D Version of Neil Wyatt’s Western Weil photo
I have created 3D version of Neil’s Western Veil photo.
Needs blue/red 3D glasses to view
Andy
Western Veil
Hopefully this will; end up being the first half of a two-part mosaic.Both the same data, 15-20 frames, 150 seconds each, Ha, Sii and Oiii.
Finally, it all comes together!
I am really p[leased with these two images, for once everything went smoothly, good polar alignment, good focus, good guiding and an hours subs for each filter. I think I need to learn more about the ‘Hubble Palette’ and then revisit the second version, but I’m happy for now!
