CCD vs Film? Lots of time vs no patience? Alright, this is your place to discuss all the astrophotography what's and what's not. You can discuss about techniques, accessories, cameras, whatever....just make sure you also post some nice photos here too!
ya, its f5. Yes, the SS2K with 3 star align creates good enough tracking for 3 mins, not more. Its mounted on the scope.
Desura is not that far away from Singapore and it shouldn't affect the tracking since you can perform the 3 star alignment.
By the way, the image look a bit odd... some part is a bit smooth (or blur) and some part seem a bit pixelated. Is it cause by the processing or the jpeg compression (highly compressed jpeg)??
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing "The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
Its due to the JPEG compression. I downsampled the image to 1/4 the size and apply more than 50% JPEG compression in order to fit 65kb. Those are compression artifacts.
Hi,
Anyway, the colour is very nice... the last wide field I shoot (2 x 5 min in Mersing last year) don't have such nice colour... turn out to be a bit greenish after processing. I think may be I didn't set the white balance correctly... :oops: :oops:
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing "The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
Nice shot! But you didn't go all the way to Desaru to just take a wide-angle shot, right? Where are the other 'real' pics?
[80% Steve, 20% Alfred] ------- Probability of Clear Skies = (Age of newest equipment in days) / [(Number of observers) * (Total Aperture of all telescopes present in mm)]
Hi Meng Lee
You can avoid the 65k limit by uploading your pic on photobucket.com and linking it here. That way at least you can keep post the image at 1024x768 resolution.
cheers
The Boldly Go Where No Meade Has Gone Before Captain, RSS Enterprise NCC1701R United Federation of the Planets
Hi,
I do a check, the limit for attachment of image file is still 65KB. Anyway, the attachment is for you to post documents or temporary image, such as item image for buy and sell which you'll delete away after the sales.
The album can post image up to 150KB, so you should post your image at the album instead of using attachment.
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing "The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
Weixing: The colour balance of this image is a huge headache. It took a long tweaking in order to get the colour roughly right. hehe it is still quite off. If you take the full res pic and zoom, Lagoon is still off colour. I can send you the full res image. (17Mb!)
Catalysm: Its 70mm Nikon lens
Tachyon: Well my D50 is in the case during the day, hehe did not take daytime pics.
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance." 
Where are the other 'real' pics?
