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North America nebula with the Canon 5D MkII and the Canon 200mm lens
Noel Carboni put some old Canon 5D MkII (unmodified) data through his new AstroFlat plug-in. I am amazed at the amount of “red” he has managed to pull out from an unmodified DSLR camera!!
Noel Carboni’s AstroFlat Pro has just been released!
You will see in the images below that I have been beta-testing Noel Carboni’s new flattening tool for deep-sky images. This plug-in makes flattening even the most difficult image data a doddle (even I can get good results). If you … Continue reading
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Carbon star SAO 77516 in Taurus
A Sky90 array image, 5 hours of 30-minute subs.
Arcturus and Napoleon’s Hat
A slightly better Arcturus reprocess. Arcturus is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere.
M11 – the Wild Duck Cluster
A Noel Carboni reprocess of old Sky 90 array data using AstroFlat.
NGC 1555
Struve’s Lost Nebula, Burnham’s Nebula, Hind’s Variable Nebula, NGC 1555 – they are all the same object and it is in the centre of this image. 65 x 20-minute subs (almost 22 hours) went into this one using the Sky … Continue reading
Mighty Merak
A rather oddly-framed 4-framer using the Sky 90 array of the Merak region.
The Double Cluster in Perseus – the Full Monty
Sometimes it is good when someone else has a look at one of your images as they can immediately point out stuff which you miss (because you’ve been looking at the thing too long). Bud Guinn immediately saw some errors … Continue reading
Last two 200mm lens images to reprocess in AstroFlat
Here we have 2-framers of the Cocoon nebula region and the Double Cluster region. Hopefully these are the last two images I need to reprocess from the 200mm lenses.