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dvj
02-01-2013, 01:03 PM
Happy New Year to you all.

Here is a new years' processing of my 4 segment Orion Mosaic in Ha.
There is a little more work to do, like adding short exposure layers to M42, but this is looking good.

Wishing you all the best for 2013.

Data:

FSQ
Proline 16803
4 segments @ 18 x 2400s each segment
5nm Ha bandpass
From Coonabarabran, NSW

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8871/orionmosaicstarspikes.jpg
FlashDrive
02-01-2013, 01:10 PM
Very Nice ....heaps of detail .... :thumbsup:

Flash ..!! :D
Stevec35
02-01-2013, 02:01 PM
Happy new year to you too John. That's an amazing amount of exposure there hence the fantastic detail I guess. An incredible image all round!

Cheers

Steve
atalas
02-01-2013, 02:19 PM
Yeah!looking spectacular so far....Happy NY to ya.
alpal
02-01-2013, 02:26 PM
That's a magnificent image - so sharp & clear.

I never get tired of Orion.
strongmanmike
02-01-2013, 05:55 PM
..Ho hum...more B&W.... :zzz2:

Needs some magenta I recon :whistle:

:lol:...looks great John ;)

HNY :thumbsup:

Mike
Larryp
02-01-2013, 07:02 PM
Lovely image, John!
RickS
02-01-2013, 07:12 PM
Stunning mosaic, John! There's an amazing amount of Ha there.
Ross G
03-01-2013, 08:54 AM
An amazing looking mosaic John.

Great detail.

Ross.
nobbygon
03-01-2013, 04:33 PM
Hi, what's that cone looking nebulous region just below the orion neb?
alocky
03-01-2013, 08:55 PM
Magnificent mosaic, that's one of the best depictions of the Orion molecular cloud I've seen. Can I ask why some of the brighter stars have diffraction spikes - given your imaging train, I can't imagine what is causing them?
cheers,
Andrew
dvj
04-01-2013, 05:16 AM
Those star spikes are special effects added through a PS software plugin by Pro Digital Software. While it may be considered blasphemy to do that, I thought it added a bit of sparkle to the overall result. nice thing about the software is that the sharpness, length, angle, halo effects are all fully user adjustable. I might go for more subtle spike effects once I get the short m42 exposures layered into the final image. Or none at all.

Cheers, and thank you everyone for your kind words. This is the BEST astronomy forum.
dvj
04-01-2013, 05:18 AM
Nebulae around NGC 1999
Poita
04-01-2013, 11:20 AM
I love the soft detail in this, I personally would give the spikes a miss, it is beautiful enough without the addition of them. I think they distract a bit from it.
Martin Pugh
04-01-2013, 08:12 PM
Beautiful John. Now get it finished!

cheers
Martin
dvj
05-01-2013, 04:57 AM
Easy to make changes. I caught some short data last night for M42. I'll repost the final here and most likely sans spikes. ;)
gregbradley
05-01-2013, 08:46 AM
Another awesome Ha from you John. Looking forward to seeing the final result. Not so sure about the sideways framing though. Its funny how we get used to a certain orientation. It was odd enough seeing it "upside down" in US skies!

The spikes are a personal thing. I like them. Looking forward to see some RHA images. The test will be whether it can match an FSQ.

By the way, not that you do many colour images, but FSQ106ED needs flocking material in the tube as it biases the colour to the green with the internal paint having excess green response. You'll get better colour response from the FSQ if you do.

Greg.