Doodling in space

[strongmanmike]

As I have mentioned before, although I was always going to hit some of the bright colourful show stopper objects and areas, fields of very faint dust were also in my sights to hit with this remarkable bit of Nippon glass :D

So, this is a weird isolated bit of molecular dust in Musca about 700 light years away and affectionately refereed to by a term apparently first coined by Denis di Cicco of US S&T when he was in Australia in 1986 to observe Halley's Comet...

The transparency wasn't on my side either night when capturing this set as we have a lot of burning off going on around the ACT at the moment and while this has given us some wonderful red sunsets lately it is not good for trying to capture fields of faint molecular dust....:doh:

Information and image capture details are under the image :)

The Dark Doodad (https://www.flickr.com/photos/strongman/40780908845/in/dateposted-public/) (click on image to enlarge and look around)

and a bigger one to surf around is HERE (http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/167371385/original)

Hope you like :)....looks like Lewis's pencil....

Mike

[h0ughy]

on the 49" monitor it looks freaking awesome

[LewisM]

You’ve got a lovely doodle Mike :lol: :) ( hey, we can say that in Canberra)

[Stevec35]

Another great wide field shot Mike

Steve

[RickS]

Fantastic, Mike :eyepop:

[atalas]

Excellent huge field field there Mike :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

That's a beauty Mike! I haven't visited this for ages.

[gregbradley]

Lovely image. Interestingly the Flickr image seems way better than the PBase image.

Have a look. Its much cleaner and better colour at least on my monitor.
Flickr presents the image better? I've been using Pbase as well, perhaps I should check out Flickr.

Greg.

[Andy01]

Absolutely first class!
Top image, well crafted with perfect star colours.

Bravo! :bowdown::party2:

[Geoff45]

Great image Mike. Nice to have the gear to get such a wide angle pic with such sharpness.

[LewisM]

I'll point the FSQ-85 at it next clear non-smoky night Mike. Then we can see how the smaller sister FSQ fares against Big Brother.

[strongmanmike]

That's nice to know...that's a big monitor :)





Go for it :thumbsup:



Thanks Steve, it is a very capable rig :thumbsup:



Cheers Rick



Thanks Louie



Thanks Kevin



Dunno bout "way better" but I agree, I do like the default display for the FSQ-PL16803 images on flickr :)



Thank you very much Andy :thumbsup:



Indeed, I am really enjoying this new setup...however last imaging session I used the AG12 and SX kit for a high res shot (just to make sure the dual setup actually all worked) on something bright, before heading over to this baby with FSQ setup, once the Moon set...first time I have imaged with both setups on the same night actually, was easy, woohoo! great versatility :)

Mike

[Paul Haese]

That's a nice one. There are features that I was not able to capture years ago when I did a mosaic of most of the doodad. Those lower nodules look great and the cirrus in the upper left has been shown well too.

[strongmanmike]

Well..ya did want another big dust field Paul so, here ya go! :)

Mike

[JA]

That really POPS :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[strongmanmike]

Cool JA :thumbsup:

Mike

[SimmoW]

Wow those stars are as perfect as I've ever seen Mike! And not a bad doodle either (always wanted to say that).

Love the glob nearby, adds nice context.

[Placidus]

So many stars - astonishing! At 1:1 they are tiny points.

You've captured the subtle gradation from the intensely dark dust totally obscuring the stars behind, to the much more widespread but thinner dust which just changes the colour of what's behind.

[marc4darkskies]

A rich and beautiful star field with an interesting brown smudge embedded in it! Nice work Mike.

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Simon, I agree the glob kinda completes the scene really, wouldn't be as cool without it :)



It's certainly a very dusty area and the homogeneous spread of stars is quite amazing, not a gap to be seen over 16 square degrees :eyepop:..it's a Stella carpet :)



Too right Marcus, certainly is rich, as I said to M&T that's 16 square degrees of wall to wall stars so evenly spread :eyepop:

Mike

[RobF]

Nicely done Mike :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Rob :)

Mike

[raymo]

Superb!!!!!
raymo

[strongmanmike]

Ha! cheers Raymo :thumbsup:

Mike