March 23rd 2016.
Clear skies!
Too bad about the full moon and a strong wind!
That will not be enough to dissuade a new astro photographer like myself and the kit was set up and ready to image with about 20 minutes before the moon started to break out above the tree line.
The session lasted a good two hours.
My previous session was a test run on Eta Carina with 15 second subs.
This time around I started out on the same subject, only this time with 20 second subs and that was increased to 25 second subs as the session wore on.
At the end of the session there were well over 250 subs, sifting through these and discarded poor or below par subs I was left with 210.
Took them all, 20/25 second combined and loaded them up into DSS.
I was surprised at how long DSS took working through the data.
A couple of hours at minimum.
From there they went into Star tools.
This was the largest file I have loaded into star tools, the initial image size was over 6000X3000!
A immediate binning by 50% was needed or else my poor laptop cannot cope and hangs!
Details for this shoot are as follows:
ISO 800
100(or so) subs at 20 seconds.
100+ at 25 seconds
Combined and stacked in DSS
Post processing done in Star tools and Photoshop.
And here it is, a large improvement on my first attempt.
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