[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Bravo! Beautiful colour and processing. Would love to see a link to the full size image. Well done!

Thanks Mike and Trish - the colour was done using the new pixinisght photometric colour balance tool, so I can't take much credit for that as it's an idiot proof process. I'm hoping to get enough data tonight to drizzle integrate and reprocess, so I'll put up the link to the result of that!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Not long ago this would be a standout image, the vertical plumes are shown well and its full of detail. Standards around here are very high. Nice work.


Greg.

Thanks Greg - until Peter posted his I was feeling very pleased with myself

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Splendid result Andrew

I'm sure the image looks even better in full res.

That's only one night cut short by clouds. Same happened last night, and tonight there's a thick layer of smoke from the burnoffs in the hills. Then the weather forecast tells me the clouds will be back for another week so I was hoping for a 'big data' tour de force so I had enough frames to drizzle, but this may well be all I get this year.

Originally Posted by DaveNZ

Wonderful image with nice detail. The seeing doesn't look to bad to me.

Thanks DAve - I can only go by the guider error - that night was ~0.3 pix rms, and I've seen it drop to .1 on a really good night. These pixels are about 2" sec.

Originally Posted by RickS

Looks very promising, Andrew!

Thanks Rick - I'm still paying for this scope weather wise 4 months after getting it! It's been the worst winter I can remember for clear nights.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Well that looks great already. Top shot.

Thanks - it's probably as good as it's going to get!

Originally Posted by willik

Very nice image Andrew good detail
Martin

Thanks Martin.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Quite a nice shot Andrew, there looks to be little difference in feature differentiation. Seeing not withstanding, it is all in the processing here I recon ...I think once you have honed yourself and that scope in and your conditions cooperate, you will salivate

Mike

Thanks Mike - I'm in fairly heavy light pollution, and I thought the faster scope will get a smoother capture of the background noise and make it easier to subtract. Haven't really had a chance to test my theory yet! But I hope you're right, as the learning is half the fun.

Originally Posted by atalas

It's a great shot Andrew!well done

Cheers and thanks!

Originally Posted by Prickly

Andrew

Awesome photo. Look forward to seeing more!

Must be some setup you have there. What is the scope mounted on?

Cheers
David (spud)

Hi David - it's an ASA 16" mounted on a DDM85, so I can't blame the hardware! Although I had some trials getting the mount 100%, it is an extraordinary piece of gear.