Thanks Tich! Man, can't believe your weather! Come to Canada, we get at least one or two clear nights a month! Seriously though, I was taken aback by how bad the light pollution has gotten here. That time lapse of the scope tracking was shot with a 14mm Rokinon running fully open at 10s exposures, but even so, you can't make anything out in the left hand side of the frame. Check out JOAstroGuy, he just dis a video on M78 in wide field. He got really nice results. There's a lot there to take in with the right scope and conditions! ruclips.net/video/AAVIuDzU8Iw/видео.htmlsi=qQuX7vCEGZdOraX2 Clear Skies!
Thanks! UPPDMAT came out of me looking for a way to filter out weird anomalies I was getting in my images. Bright gradients in the center, large rings, etc. that were being caused by bright sky glow and other light pollution. Basically, you use a diffuser to take images of the sky so that you get all the weird anomalies, but no stars, using the same settings and duration as your lights. You then use those in place of flats and darks because they already contain all bad pixels, vignetting, and sensor glow. They are not perfect, and don't work as well for narrow band, and you do need a lot of them, so it takes some time, but they have helped a nimber of people. Have a look at this video New Approach To Reducing Light Pollution Using UPPDMAT Sky Flats In Bortle 8 Skies ruclips.net/video/uqJsSUXwcZM/видео.html
Hi, certainly looks tricky, but a good image. I tried the Cats Eye early summer but found even in B5/6 skies difficult to tease out, also was cropped in to much due to my setup..atb.
Thanks Tom, I think there are similarities between imaging reflection nebulae and galaxies. From a capture and processing standpoint, a galaxy comes out much like a reflection nebula: a cloudy mass that is difficult to separate from the background sky glow as it's details are very faint. I have not tried the Cats Eye yet, but it is on my list! Clear Skies!
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Thanks Stefan!
Nice job Chris I had a bash at this target last year maybe I'll try for a wider view if we ever get a clear sky here lol.
Thanks Tich! Man, can't believe your weather! Come to Canada, we get at least one or two clear nights a month! Seriously though, I was taken aback by how bad the light pollution has gotten here. That time lapse of the scope tracking was shot with a 14mm Rokinon running fully open at 10s exposures, but even so, you can't make anything out in the left hand side of the frame.
Check out JOAstroGuy, he just dis a video on M78 in wide field. He got really nice results. There's a lot there to take in with the right scope and conditions!
ruclips.net/video/AAVIuDzU8Iw/видео.htmlsi=qQuX7vCEGZdOraX2
Clear Skies!
It is very nice to try different objects, excellent job, a question, what is that uppdmat for?...CS!
Thanks! UPPDMAT came out of me looking for a way to filter out weird anomalies I was getting in my images. Bright gradients in the center, large rings, etc. that were being caused by bright sky glow and other light pollution. Basically, you use a diffuser to take images of the sky so that you get all the weird anomalies, but no stars, using the same settings and duration as your lights. You then use those in place of flats and darks because they already contain all bad pixels, vignetting, and sensor glow. They are not perfect, and don't work as well for narrow band, and you do need a lot of them, so it takes some time, but they have helped a nimber of people. Have a look at this video
New Approach To Reducing Light Pollution Using UPPDMAT Sky Flats In Bortle 8 Skies
ruclips.net/video/uqJsSUXwcZM/видео.html
Somehow it didn't look like Bortle 8, looked like Bortle 6.
Amazing picture!
I live in Bortle 9 and this gives me hope.
Sadly, I'm pretty much where the X is on this map
www.cleardarksky.com/lp/MiltonONlp.html?Mn=focuser
Hi, certainly looks tricky, but a good image. I tried the Cats Eye early summer but found even in B5/6 skies difficult to tease out, also was cropped in to much due to my setup..atb.
Thanks Tom, I think there are similarities between imaging reflection nebulae and galaxies. From a capture and processing standpoint, a galaxy comes out much like a reflection nebula: a cloudy mass that is difficult to separate from the background sky glow as it's details are very faint. I have not tried the Cats Eye yet, but it is on my list! Clear Skies!