Processing discussion aside, it is a pretty amazing looking shot! I too didn't appreciate this full extent of the Helix before. Alas, way too low for me to try for. Stuart

That is pretty amazing! Never knew there was so much stuff surrounding the Helix. Rolando

This is great news, thank you Marj. Kind regards, Horia

Share the unaltered masters if you are willing, would love to look at the data myself and chat with you offline about the best way to work with it.🙂

Hi Bill, Yes, I did 4 iterations on OIII and 5 on the rest of the channels. I did see the worms, and these were actually mostly generated by a light noise reduction. I could not find settings that

Did you use deconvolution on this? The background has wormy bits that are usually a dead giveaway that deconvolution was used and the algorithm set the globals incorrectly.

Hi all, Sharing my latest narrowband image of the Helix, taken with my trusty Mach1 controlled by SGP - set up in the afternoon, polar align at dusk and pack up in the morning. Easy-peasy. Some

Thank you, Terri!

What a beautiful image. I really like the intense vivid false colors of the narrowband images. Everywhere you look in this image, there is some eye candy awaiting your glance. Terri

We just finished notifying the people on the Mach1 list and will start notification for the Mach2 list soon. Clear Skies, Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney

Steve, thanks also to you for such a nice “beginners lesson” on starting with luminance and working your way “up". I have yet to tackle full time AP and have dabbled with stacked images as they

I have registered myself on thenotification list for the Mach2 sometime in April, shortly after Marj announcedit to this group. On the Mach2 page, there is a message reading: "We are presently

Even though Ron no longer runs the ccd-newastro group on Yahoo, it is still active under a different owner, Dave Wormuth. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ccd-newastro/> Not a lot of activity, but a

I have to agree with the comments about the printed/written documents. These are indispensable and if they can be downloaded and saved as PDF as many systems allow these days, they can be searched by

thanks Ray! I'll try some more direct connection methods to narrow down the problem. It's a GTOCP3 box connected over a serial > usb cable to the Silex DS-600 which is wired to the observatory network

Thank you Stuart :-)

Thank you, Rolando and Stuart! What I'd love to have is at least two more nights real soon to gather more SII and Ha data. There are two nights coming up for me this next week, but unfortunately I'll

Has anyone had trouble upgrading their APCC Standard to Pro? I have installed it per the instructions but cannot get past the licensing screen. I can install the Standard version without issues. I

What Rolando said! Love it! Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/

Thanks Marj. I also was able to get the update for the update for the CP4 to work via reloading the webpage for it and restarting. I am waiting on the keypad for a bit until I get all the new stuff