First Light - Seestar S30 Pro - Orion Nebula

[Bob Israel]

After owning this scope for a week, I had a brief window to capture a DSO. From a perfectionist standpoint, there's a lot to improve on this image. However, capture was done in Alt/Az mode with a paltry 9 minutes total integration at 10 seconds each. I took the Seestar integrated fits file into Pixinsight and Lightroom. I'm surprised at how little data still yeilded a decent result. Can't wait to put this into EQ mode for longer intergration times.

[Edit] - Decided to do another version of processing. I was not satisfied how I developed the area around the nebula, The second image hopefully looks more natural even if a bit over saturated.

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[AlanLichty]

Nice start!

 

[BlackRockArt]

After owning this scope for a week, I had a brief window to capture a DSO. From a perfectionist standpoint, there's a lot to improve on this image. However, capture was done in Alt/Az mode with a paltry 9 minutes total integration at 10 seconds each. I took the Seestar integrated fits file into Pixinsight and Lightroom. I'm surprised at how little data still yeilded a decent result. Can't wait to put this into EQ mode for longer intergration times.

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Wow, Bob, this is an impressive image.

Oliver

 

[Bob Israel]

I added a second version of the same image. Hopefully more natural looking even if over saturated.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I like the second one better.

 

[Bob Israel]

I like the second one better.

Thanks. Me too

 

[AlanLichty]

I like the edit better - more interesting palette.

 

[JimFox]

Pretty nice work Bob! I am glad you got some time with it. The 2nd is definitely better. In #2, you crushed the background to just black so then you lost some details. The 2nd, is much better in that regards.

Is #1 an uncropped version? If it's not, can you post the uncropped, even if it's just a straight conversion to jpg without any stretching, or use the jpg that the Seestar will save. I am curious as to how wide the S30 Pro is. It seemed like it would be too wide for me, but Orion is a good standard to know how wide it captures it. Thanks!

 

[Bob Israel]

Pretty nice work Bob! I am glad you got some time with it. The 2nd is definitely better. In #2, you crushed the background to just black so then you lost some details. The 2nd, is much better in that regards.

Is #1 an uncropped version? If it's not, can you post the uncropped, even if it's just a straight conversion to jpg without any stretching, or use the jpg that the Seestar will save. I am curious as to how wide the S30 Pro is. It seemed like it would be too wide for me, but Orion is a good standard to know how wide it captures it. Thanks!

Thanks Jim. The second image is definitely better from a processing standpoint. Both images are cropped. I do minimal cropping in Pixinsight and final cropping in Lightroom.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Very nice - looks like a great edit too.

ML