First Light with modified 300D

Beautiful image. I noticed a very slight shift in the star images (pear affect) when highly magnified. Is it due to tracking? Any details on exposure times, etc.. Like Dave L would be very interested in comparison images (with & without filter)

Thanks again for the comments. Yes I've just noticed that. Its either a rogue image where the scope got a knock or its mis-aligned in the processing. I'll need to look through the individual images to see which. Either way, dropping that image or re-alingning it will sort that pear shaped look. Thats the nice thing about taking several shorter exposures, if that were a single image theres nothing that could be done to correct it.

Superb! Gets me thinking about getting the hamer and chisel out and attacking the camera!

Wow! ... WOW! Please tell me this isn't a wind up! Emulsion really is dead, now! Beautiful shot.

See you Wednesday... I hope?

Phil.

Hi Phil,

Yup, see you Wednesday, and no that is a very real image, RIP 35mm film

To be honest it was the easier of the two to processes, and I thought it would be difficult to get a decent contrast stretch on the horse head, but it came up nice and clear without any tricky pixel maths!

Later,

Jed.

That is a really nice image Dave & Jed! The red nebulosity really comes out a treat! No looking back on the modification now!

Seanie.