IC 2177 from Coonabarabran

[dvj]

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1161/ic2177toned.jpg

IC 2177 from the last 2 Coonabarabran nights. Warm but clear out there.

FSQ
Proline 16803
5nm Ha filter
15 x 2400s
50% resolution

enjoy

jg

[Larryp]

That's great, John!

[kustard]

I'm really liking these Ha images.

[atalas]

Honestly,a stunning piece of work John! smooth,nice contrast and detail,but the thing I find most striking is the composition:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

.....just wish I had a run of clear nights to do similar work.

Your B&W h-alpha shots have a sublime, art-quality look

Delightful imagery :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[alpal]

Shows you what long Ha subframes can achieve.
That's top work & worth putting in so many hours.

[marc4darkskies]

Awesome image John! Dynamic range rendered smoothly & naturally.

Cheers, Marcus

[naskies]

Very nice! I see you added some colour tone to your "B&W" data... sneaky ;)

[dvj]

You win the prize! :eyepop:

With this image only, I added a bit of blue tone. Hue at 240, saturation at 3. Bit of an experiment really.

[dvj]

Thank you Marcus, trying to go over the top with contrast and sharpening. Although very tempting.

[dvj]

The key to any deep image is lots of signal. 105 f/5 takes lots of exposure, but the star images to the edge of my 16803 field make it worth all the effort.

Cheers!

[dvj]

i think tonight I am getting smoked out. Clear, but very hazy. I've worked recently to spend more time on my images and fear pushing the image too far.

cheers!

[dvj]

Thank you Larry! You are always the first to comment.

cheers,

jg

[gregbradley]

Superb John.
Really nice and as Louie pointed out very clever and well thought out composition.

I see there is a cold front moving in bottom left:)

Greg.

[Stevec35]

Great stuff John! I like everything about it.

Cheers

Steve

[RickS]

Nice to see such a big field and interesting framing.

[dvj]

The sky got very hazy this morning based on the Boltwood readings. I just got word about the big fire near Siding Springs.

My remote observing partner who is one of the managers at the AAT says they are under evacuation orders. Our imaging equipment has been pulled from the remote observatory which is only a few kilometers down the road toward Coona. We are completely shut down. I have no other word on the fire. Their personal safety right now is the priority.

Here is a screen capture just made from the all sky camera at iTelescopes.net on Siding Springs mountain.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3691/latestimagea.png

jg

[Martin Pugh]

John
a superb image and I am very sorry that your kit has had to be pulled out. Still, at least Peter (?) has been able to save your kit. I am just wondering what is going to happen to both Siding Springs itself as well as the iTelescope outfit.

I too was poised to move my kit out last week, but the fire did not get that close in the end (although it is still going on).

Good luck.

Martin

[dvj]

Hi Martin, Not Peter, but his operation was certanly under threat as were we. I read this morning that observatories at Siding Springs did suffer damage but no news as to how much or what. The remote cameras all seem to be offline.

j

[alpal]

I hope the fires cause only a temporary halt to the observatories.
I did hear that a few small ones were burnt down - on the TV news this morning.

[dvj]

Visitor center lost and some of the lodging. AAT OK. No word on other damage.

j

[Ross G]

I love B&W astrophotos John and yours is a great looking one.

Sharp, detailed with such smooth tones.

Nice composition.

Ross.

[smader]

That is brilliant. I'm working on this area myself. You can see the large arcs associated with the outflow from Z CMa (upper-right of image).

:thumbsup: