Clear skies again tonight, but lots of light from the moon. Decided to try the Ring Nebula since it wasn't very clear last time. After looking at other's photos, I realized I was not in focus.
Ring Nebula:
This time I only used the DSI without the barlow--remember I have the f/6.3 reducer
15 s exposures about 30 images LRGB.
I have no clue how to do color though....so here is my B&W taken from 30 Luminance images. All processing done in Registax4.
I've tried using some tutorials from http://www.cloudynights.com/, but I can't seem to figure out how to merge the RGB channels. I would like to figure out how to do it though to see what color my ring image has. When I open the color ones in Registax, it thinks they are black and white...to tell you the truth, I don't see any color myself. I suppose I don't truly understand how a monochrome camera works.
Uranus was not a success...I was trying to underexpose it, but I didn't really capture the globe or any moons. It was easy to see in the EP as a green globe, but came out almost starlike in the CCD. I will post a pic just to show how bad I got it. I def think a 5x telextender would help get the exposure and detail right.
Hopefully I will have better luck next time with Uranus. I think I am getting the focus on DSO's better though, as evidenced by the Ring. This imaging is a long slow road!
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