Chamaeleon Complex

[sjastro]

300mm Pentax lens shot/ST-X10ME combination.
4hr L, 1 hr R, 1 hr G, 1 hr B exposures.

Visually the constellation Chamaeleon is quite barren but the region including some neighbouring constellations is covered by this enormous complex.

Full resolution here.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/Cham_complex.jpg

Clear skies

Steven

[Rod771]

Nice field Steven! The Pentax lens has done a great job! As have you, well done! :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

A very difficult target. It would be good to get more contrast between the background and the dust areas. Thomas Davies was good at that. I am not sure what the processing techniques are to do that but I imagine it would have to do with exposure equalisation. Then some curves. Starting off with making sure there are no gradients or colour bias in the background.

Greg.

[cometcatcher]

Nice one. These are hard to image. At least for me. :P

[nebulosity.]

That's a nice capture! Which version of the 300mm Pentax lens did you use for this?

Thanks,

Cheers
Jo

[sjastro]

Thanks Rod, Greg, Kevin and Jo.

The lens is a Pentax SMC DA 300mm F4ED.

[sjastro]

Reprocessed to increase contrast between background and complex.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/Cham_complex.jpg


Regards

Steven

[RickS]

Lovely and dusty, Steven! I'd love to have a go at a mosaic in this area one day.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Ross G]

Great looking wide photo Steven.

It's a beautiful object but so hard to capture and process.

Excellent work!

Ross.

[sjastro]

Thanks Ross and Rick.

Regards

Steven