Eat a car

[LewisM]

Ran into trees with a Horse :lol:, so decided to eat a car.

1hr 20 worth of 10 min subs, OSC, Tak FSQ-85. Mean compile, slight DDP and a very slight masked sharpen in PS6.

The Kangaroo Nutsack looks better before stretching (OUCH!), but I am not doing much to this WIP. I am going to be disciplined this imaging season and actually compile data :eyepop:

Got to remember to REFOCUS every 30 minutes...even the guidescope :lol:.

https://www.astrobin.com/full/333248/0/?nc=user

[LewisM]

PS: that was imaged looking over Queanbeyan and Jerrabomberra....GULP :lol:

[leon]

Well, there is nothing wrong with that one Lewis, nice work.

Leon

[multiweb]

Nice one mate. :thumbsup: You're gonna give the big man a run for his money. :lol:

[LewisM]

So that's why he won't invite me out to Wallaroo Marc? Competitive mongrel!

[RickS]

Nice image, Lewis!

[LewisM]

Thanks Rick.

I thought I may need to defibrilate my mount - it was flatline all night... (the PHD2 graph and centroid target barely moved all night - flat RA and Dec, and the purple target markers barely danced away from centre.)

[atalas]

Ok buddy, who are you and what did you do with Lewis? actually, looks great with tight as a fish's butt stars and wonderful detail and contrast.

[LewisM]

What, no donkey kicking?

[multiweb]

You need to discover two galaxies mate. :lol:

[LewisM]

I found my wife’s lost Galaxy phone twice...does that count?

[multiweb]

Now you're talking. :thumbsup:

[Shark6]

Very nice.... thanks for posting.... one of my favourite targets...

[Placidus]

The dust lanes in the large bright patch toward 7 o'clock (the roo part you mentioned?) form a very convincing left profile of a philosopher with a craggy brow, boozy nose, and very protruding lips. I'm sure I recognize him from somewhere.

Good work!

"The man from mars is through with cars, and now he only eats guitars ..."

Rapture (Blondie).

[Atmos]

Looks pretty good Lewis, you’ve captured a good amount of nebulosity :)

[cometcatcher]

Looks great! You must be happy with that.

[LewisM]

For a "the night is still young" filler shot, it'll do. :rofl:

[Peter Ward]

Headed in the right direction Lewis. I’d work on improving the star colour variation, plus that of the Nebula itself. Nicely handled just the same :thumbsup:

[LewisM]

Thanks Peter, but this literally was a case of main target gone past the imaging window (thanks to a large eucalypt...hmmmm chainsaw....), and the sky was still clear (for an hour), so do something. I didn't even touch it in Photoshop to change star colours etc (only did a masked sharpen). All the stretching and minor gamma adjustment was done in CCDStack.

Plus the LP filter I was using casts a VERY blue tone, so it makes it hard to balance it without really damaging the data (hence why I bought an IDAS LP-DI filter yesterday, ditching the Baader).

Seeing today is cloudy, I may fiddle some just to see what is possible. I also had the Circadian tone filter on the laptop (forgot to turn it off), hence the more sepia toning :lol: