Easter Egg

[Peter Ward]

The sky's grandest globular is egg shaped....hence seemed like an appropriate
post for this Good Friday.

Grabbed over a lazy hour or two with the moon headed toward full....but in a nicely transparent sky, also thankfully at a very northerly declination.

The link is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery428.html)

[atalas]

Looks great Pete :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Sh!t that's good Peter! Happy Easter. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc, Louie....I'm still tinkering with the data...some tweaks of the colour and sampling to present the image a little better on the web....

FYI the field is effectively un-cropped. Alluna's FFR is giving some really tidy
star images out the the edge of the 16803. :)

[Joshua Bunn]

I like the subtle blue stars in there and ofcourse, resolved to the core. nice work!:)

[Andy01]

Beautifully resolved, Happy Easter Peter! :)

[willik]

SO many stars and colour looks great
Martin

[Placidus]

Beautifully needle sharp throughout! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Atmos]

That's an excellent image Peter! I've been wanting to image this for years now but still haven't done it :/
I'll have to setup my Mewlon at some point with my D810 and play around with clusters. Certainly won't have stars as nice as yours though with an uncorrected DK!!

[04Stefan07]

Holy crap that is crazy! Maybe I should start counting how many stars :lol:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks one and all...I'm still tweaking the processing on this one...one star at a time...could take a while :)

[JA]

Pin Point and an excellent reference.

BTW - Buona Pasqua a tutti.

Best
JA

[redbeard]

Great shot!

Apt title :thumbsup:

Yesterday I was in a chocolate shop in Adelaide and an Easter egg on display was covered in hundreds and thousands. A lot like your image! :D

I just found a pic of it on the web.......

Cheers,
Damien

[Jeff]

Amazing focus and processing to achieve/depict star separation so close to the core. The large red and blue stars overlayed on the fine background of white/grey stars looks magnificent. Love your work Peter!

[SimmoW]

You owe me a new phone screen Peter. So damn sharp and detailed, well Done

[Peter Ward]

Que? So..there are now Pin holes in the screen ? :)

Too kind:thanx:

Ta.
Just about to crack a few Easter eggs of the confectionary kind :D



Thanks. Happy Easter!

[atalas]

Yeah your not kidding Peter....still scratching my head on how the stars are so tight with the 16" :confuse3:

[Peter Ward]

Ta Louie...as to why...

:question:

Probably due....



Zerodur optics.
Temperature controlled, zero focus tilt, secondary mirror focuser.
Auto-thermally controlled OTA cooling fans.
Guide chip next to the imaging chip in the same camera head.
imaging in a dome = no wind buffetting

....some boofheads would say "but it's so expensive" ...and they'd be right

...but hey, to make an omelette, you may have to break some eggs :)

As to how many you break...well...;)

[Ryderscope]

Stunning Peter.

[xelasnave]

Peter your dedication produces jaw dropping results and there is more to it than the money...it takes a variety of skills and abilities to make it all work beyond the money...I could not do it money aside.
Your image is inspiring.
Alex

[Peter Ward]

Very kind of you gentlemen. That said, time this one slowly sinks down the list (I’m not a fan of constantly promoting the same post )