SPSP 2016 Milkyway shots and a handful of bright stars.

[multiweb]

Here's all my pics from this SPSP. Finally processed the whole lot. Just stacked and color levelled, sharp enough not to do any additional processing.

All links are below: Enjoy the views. If you have enough bandwidth have a look at the 1:1 versions. :thumbsup:

Cederblad 122 - 33x5min - 1:1 [10MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_Cederblad122_fff.jpg) - HD [4.2MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_Cederblad122_HD.jpg)
IC4628 - 30x5min - 1:1 [8.5MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_IC4628_fff.jpg) - HD [3.7MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_IC4628_HD.jpg)
NGC6383 - 48x5min - 1:1 [8.5MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_NGC6383_fff.jpg) - HD [3.6MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_NGC6383_HD.jpg)
NGC6559 - 24x5min - 1:1 [8.2MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_NGC6559_fff.jpg) - HD [3.6MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_NGC6559_HD.jpg)
NGC6727 - 26x5min - 1:1 (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_NGC6727_fff.jpg) - HD (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_NGC6727_HD.jpg)
Mimosa/Jewelbox - 20x5min - 1:1 [9MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_Jewelbox_fff.jpg) - HD [4MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_Jewelbox_HD.jpg)
Hadar - 34x5min - 1:1 [8.7MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_Hadar_fff.jpg) - HD [3.8MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_Hadar_HD.jpg)
A crux - 14x5min - 1:1 [10.4MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_CoalSack_fff.jpg) - HD [4MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_CoalSack_HD.jpg)

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Rigel Kent - 33x5min - 1:1 [9MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_RigelKent_fff.jpg) - HD [4MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/FSQ106N_RigelKent_HD.jpg)
Mars/Oph - 30x5min - 1:1 [6.9MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/MarsOph_FSQ106N_fff.jpg) - HD [2.8MB] (http://www.astropic.net/astro/MarsOph_FSQ106N_HD.jpg)

Mars/Oph repro as I now added a new bad pixel map and new darks. So proper colors and no more hot pixels. :)

[Retrograde]

They look great Marc, nice collection of objects :thumbsup:

Enjoying zooming around the hi-res ones. Will try & have a look at the 1:1s later on the big monitor.

[h0ughy]

nice assortment Marc

[rustigsmed]

beautiful work Marc,
nice to see the bright stars on their own as a feature rather than being an annoyance!

saying that I really like the jewel box shot.

cheers

russ

[billdan]

Good shooting Marc, love all those images, in particular I like NGC 6727, it looks like a creature moving through space.

Cheers
Bill

[Atmos]

Even the stamp sized ones looks fantastic! Going to have to look at them on the bigger screen than my iPhone :)

[RickS]

Nice shots, Marc. Must have been a productive star party!

[multiweb]

Thanks a lot guys. :thumbsup: THe Jewelbox is one of my fav as well.
Yeah very productive. 4 nights non stop. Well 3.5. I crashed Friday at 1:00am. Too old. :lol:
Incredible seeing. I keep repeating myself, but you'll see when you check the 1:1.
If I shot mono with a camera with smaller pixel size it would have been better.
It was that still.

[Camelopardalis]

Cracking collection Marc, well done :thumbsup:

I'm a big fan of your 4628 and Mars/Oph :)

[Rod771]

Looks like you made the most of it, Marc! Great collection of images, a dark site makes processing soooooo much easier. Nice work! :thumbsup:

[Slawomir]

A great collection of beautiful images Marc!

[Placidus]

Wow! A refreshing approach. Many of the regions that you've shown are new to me, or new and fresh by virtue of image scale or presentation. But I suspect that Bigfoot and the Corona Australis shots are my favourites. So many stars!

We look at distant galaxies and think, wow, that looks like a dust lane, or there that bit looks like a star forming region. But here you've zoomed in, in great detail, on the lass next door.

Best,
Mike

[multiweb]

Thanks again for the comments guys. :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Wow – a breathtaking set Marc. Really nicely done and agree, the hi res shots are worth a click.:thumbsup:

Cheers

Dennis

PS – love your rainbow, star studded pier.:)

[RB]

Beautiful images Marc.
The FF are gorgeous.
What gear did you use?

RB

[multiweb]

Thanks Dennis. :thumbsup: Haha... yeah we got a bit excited with the colors when we decorated it with my daughter. :lol:


Thanks Andrew. :thumbsup: FSQ106N at prime with QHY8 on G11, OAG with lodestar. I used PHD 1 for guiding, Nebulosity 2 for capture. For calibration and stacking I used CCD Stack. For star registration MBJ's Prometheus and for color balance his Goodlook 64 brew.

I should put the integration times in the OP. Will do now.

[Satchmo]

Great shots Marc .

Its a new approach to capture these impressive naked eye stars in their fields and treat them as objects in themselves.

It might be a good project to capture as many different star colours as you can though blue white is going to dominate . I note that you still captured the orange of the small carbon star close to beta crux, and the bright second companion star to acrux.

There is a certain three dimensionality about capturing these stars against a more distant looking background matrix !

[multiweb]

Thanks Mark. :thumbsup: I've always slew to a bright star in the past to do my focusing and sync then let it guide a bit, let temperature settle, let PHD do its thing, tweak settings and balance and if everything is working then I move to my first target if it's up. I usually don't keep the subs but sometime I do. These turned up quite nice. The conditions were perfect and the old Q gives such nice colors and hues that it would have been a shame to bin the lot so I let it shoot long enough to make some pics.

It's only the last night I went to find something else bright in crux and Cederblad 122 was in Sky Safari. Two bright enough stars, one orange, one blue to figure out where I was and let it shoot. It is a lot bigger than my FOV. There seems to be a lot of interesting areas in there more suited to longer focal length. Like this thing below. Not sure what it is. Looks like some kind of bubble. Maybe a cool target for someone with a big FL.

[Satchmo]

Looks like a Bok Globule associated with the nebulous region ?

[multiweb]

The dark stuff possibly. I was referring to that blue circle at the top with those two bright stars in it. Maybe that's this one (http://www.techtimes.com/articles/137192/20160228/nasas-hubble-telescope-captures-image-of-blue-bubble-in-space.htm).

[Paul Haese]

A productive trip Marc. Nice colours there. I really like the NGC6559 image.

[multiweb]

Thanks Paul. :thumbsup: Very dense starfield in the bottom of that one.

[Ross G]

Great looking photos Marc.

Very sharp and I love the colours.
They really show the quality of your new telescope.....as well as your excellent processing!

You were so lucky to get 4 straight clear nights...that is unheard of in my universe!....I would give anything to just get 2 clear nights in a row.

Good luck.
Ross.

[andyc]

That's a fine collection Marc! CrA nebulae and NGC6559 were maybe my favourites, but lots of nice views

[multiweb]

Thanks mate. :thumbsup: Yeah you gotta take them while you can.



Thanks Andy. :thumbsup:

[troypiggo]

Wow - full bag there. Very productive. Must've had good weather? Let's hope Astrofest does too ;)

[atalas]

Lovely work Marc:thumbsup:nice contrast on all of them.

[gregbradley]

Lovely images Marc. Overall though the processing is quite reserved and I think extra colour saturation would give them a nice punch.

You certainly got a lot of images there. Super productive. FSQ106N is a more colourful scope than its FSQ106ED brother.

Viva la Fluorite!

Greg.