Large Magellanic Cloud

[Atmos]

This is an image that I had wanted to take up at Snake Valley but with the Saturday night clouding out I have since taken it up at Heathcote.

So far I haven't done anything but crop, stretch and quickly play with the curves. It is a 2x6 panel mosaic taken with my D700 and Sky Rover 130mm F/5. Need to work a bit more again on my focuser collimation as it is a bit off at the moment, going to order a holographic projection for my Glatter to mitigate this issue.

Panels 1,2,3,4 & 6 are 15x180s while panel 5 is 29x180 (I slept through my alarm!). Frame edges aren't great due to pretty excessive tilt but ah well, not noticeable after downsizing :P

Going to do a proper process of this region over the weekend (if I get time). This is a bit of a teaser :P

50% Res on Astrobin (http://www.astrobin.com/full/270779/0/?nc=iotd)

[RickS]

Very nice, Colin!

[Atmos]

Thanks Rick. I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how to do the Bayer Drizzle in PI. Want to figure that out before sitting down for a final process. Doesn't matter at ~12% of full res :P

[plantnerd]

Really nice looking image

[Atmos]

Thanks Louis :)

[multiweb]

Looks very fine Colin. Well done. :thumbsup:

[Regulus]

There's certainly some detail in there to play with.
Look forward to the end result.

Trev

[Atmos]

Not sure why but for whatever reason my D700 will not take an image below a FWHM of 2.8 pixels so I have discovered that even a Bayer Drizzle doesn't have much of an effect so I have just stuck with some plain integration. Hasn't mattered whether I am imaging at 24mm, 35mm, 85mm, 120mm or 680mm, always the same FWHM.

At any rate, reprocessed it and posted a 50% res version on Astrobin (http://www.astrobin.com/full/270779/0/) plus the Technical Card has plate solved (http://www.astrobin.com/270779/0/) it all for me :P



Thanks Marc


Thanks Trev, I am thinking I may go and do it again with a proper camera, resolution will be a LOT better :)

[atalas]

Nice shot Colin:thumbsup: