Lagoon Nebula

[hpcoolahan]

Hi there all you guys and gals who wont see this because you're outside with the scopes tonight..........Im clouded in tonight:crying23:
Well last night was good but , got lazy and did a b/w of the Lagoon Nebula.
Its 30 , 30sec shots stacked and processed in Photoshop.

Radar when are you getting the digital bug! These DSI-2pro's are good fun, even alt/az mounted. Noticed in another post you said you are waiting to get a bigger scope,, well with a ccd camera you dont need a big scope, your 8in sc will be fine!!


Hope you all like it.


Clear Skies:pipethinker:

Patrick Coolahan

[Draig]

HI Patrick,

Lovely image :welldone:

CHeers Colin

[hpcoolahan]

Cheers Draig,,

I sometimes like the b/w images more than color ones , not to mention heaps easier to take.

Clear Skies
Patrick:pipethinker:

[gerry aarts]

Nice deatail in that image.

PS love the observatory you built.

Regards
Gerry

[hpcoolahan]

Thanks Gerry all the effort payed off with the observatory, not so cold when doing the late night winter observing:thumbsupmate:

I see u have the meade cameras too , there not bad cameras hey.

Clears Skies
Patrick

[Medusa]

WellDone, I love it.

Medusa

[Radar]

G'day Pat, nice work mate. The black and white images can really reveal some great detail.

As far as getting the digital bug, I want to get a DSLR and a CCD camera. I want to be able to do tri colour imaging and hubble palette stuff. I'll hopefully be in the market for a DSI Pro in the next few weeks.

Be interesting to see how well my 8inch does.

Cheers

Ray

[phoenix]

Hey Pat


B/W gives it a ghostly eerie feeling to it.
Looks Brilliant.




Cheers Jason :pipethinker:

[hpcoolahan]

Thank guys..

Ray u should look at the meade site galleries for the 8in section, you might be suprised! http://www.meade.com/photogallery/lx90_gallery.html

Clear Skies
Patrick

[wakaleo]

Lovely image Pat, and as Gerry says, nice detail.

[Radar]

I see what you mean Pat, that chip must be tiny. I wanted to get a larger scope because objects such as the ring nebula are tiny when photographed. I'm like how big some of those objects appear.

So the Meade DSI Pro is a black white camera that requires filters?

Cheers

Ray

[hpcoolahan]

Hi Ray, yes the pro is the b/w camera and needs filters to do RGB or Narrowband (line imaging) but the b/w has better resolution than color ones (same size chip)because it doesent loose info because of the Bayer Matrix (tiny color filter on each pixel).

Actually your 8in has a bigger field of view at f10 than my12in at f10!
So a f3.3 reducer on your 8in would be great.

Bigger chip in the version 2 dsi's is great, but if u want a bigger chip you need heaps more $$$$well $$$$$$$$$ closer to it..lol

Dsi-2pro is what u need to do all the styles of imaging you want to try.Too a budget.

Clear skies
Patrick:pipethinker:

[Radar]

Thanks Pat.

I'm starting to grasp how versatile this thing is (taking into account the price).

I'm going to watch those vids now.

http://meade.com/educational/dsi_videos/

Cheers

Ray

[Mick]

I can see clearly now pat, lol nice work mate. :eartoear:

[Astrokid]

thats a really cool photo :thumbsupmate:

[hpcoolahan]

Thanks astrokid, glad you liked it

Clear skies
Pat