April 11 2016.
Took some trial run subs on the Tarantula Nebula.
This is located in the Large Magellanic cloud and is some 160, 000 light years away.
These are 40X30 second light frames and 10X30 second dark frames.
This was also my first use of dark frames in my AP endeavours.
The result here is very encouraging and I hope to find more time over the coming weekend to gather more data.
There are two images here, one is the complete wide field as captured through the scope and the second is a cropped version.
The subs were stacked in DSS and the post processing was done using Star tools.
I left the colour as it came from the camera and did not adjust it in star tools at all.
I preferred the look direct from the camera to what Star tools was doing with the colours.
I also attempted to use my DIY Bahtinov mask for the first time.
This was a learning curve and I was second guessing myself and the spikes did not look "right" and I instead tried using the FHWM function in APT.
That was another steep learning curve and as a result the focus is a little off in the image!
So here are the products of my labours, enjoy!
Thanks for reading and looking, comments good or bad welcome.
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