Ara shoreline up close

[multiweb]

I managed to clock 15h of usable subs on this beween Thursday and last night over the course of four days. Some nights the seeing was a little better than others but never got really very good. A couple of nights were just windy as well so I could only get an average of 50 extra subs per night. This is a lot fainter than the eta carina region and I need to double that integration time at least before I can even start thinking of sharpening it so that's just a straight stack. It's starting to take shape and I'm confident I should get some cool details in the final once the noise goes down in the fine details.

The little landscape thumb is 1:1. The other one is the full fov.
I have a HD version here (http://www.astropic.net/astro/NGC6188_ha_CN-212_15h_HD.jpg).

Enjoy the view. :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Sensational Marc.

Those vaporous areas are really showing up nicely. Super.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Oh...that is nice !

The OB-type star association is beautifully resolved....and forget the kindergarten "puff-dragons", you've resolved the central "Stallion" and then some :thumbsup::thumbsup:
(the hallmark of an excellent rendition)

Well done :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[DJT]

OOh, noice one Marc. Hadnt noticed the Stallion before

The HD one is really good, squinting as some of the fainter areas of Ha around the rest of the frame that look like they will be interesting when you develop this further

:thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Thanks Greg. :thumbsup: Yeah I'm hoping to up the contrast when the moon goes.


Thanks Peter. :thumbsup: I used your alluna shot as reference to check all the stars and doubles that needed resolving. Made me appreciate even more how sharp your light bucket really is. I'm a little closer but every close stars I separated I looked them up in your wider field and thought bugger! he got that one too :lol:



Thanks David. :thumbsup: That would be a good fov for your new toy too. You should get data much faster as well.

[strongmanmike]

Nice close up Marc...Will you be continuing this at SPSP?

Mike

[multiweb]

Thanks Mike. :thumbsup: I don't think so. Probably do some with the FSQ. Have you seen the forecast to date? Lot of rain Thursday night and most of Friday. Friday arvo looks like a late setup for Friday night and possibly Saturday. Also the seeing doesn't look too flash. Once the front has passed I'll take it where I left it from home I reckon and keep going.

[ChrisV]

Love the detail you have captured Marc

[Placidus]

Heartening to see you out and about Marc.

The "Rocking Horse" in the middle of the bottom edge came out really well.

Your stars are just faultless.

We reckon it's already got enough data to handle a bit of gentle wavelet sharpening, if you wanted to.

Best,
MnT

[multiweb]

Thanks a lot Chris. :thumbsup:

Thanks mate. :thumbsup: I've sent you a link to the raw stack to play with.
Stars are ok. I still have a bit of camera tilt on two corners which I need to fix but it's good enough to do the job for now. Catch up soon this winter.

If anybody else wants to have a look the FIT file is here [~18MB rar file]: http://www.astropic.net/astro/mike/NGC6188.rar

[RB]

Fantastic image Marc !!

Love the stallion mate.
15h of subs so far, wow, awesome. :thumbsup:
Can't wait to see the final run.

Thank you for my fix.

:)

[multiweb]

Thanks mate. :thumbsup: No ball bearings were harmed on this one. :P

[RB]

No flying monkeys either I notice.

:lol:

[multiweb]

I clone stamped those ones out. :cheers:

[LewisM]

The Tak CN-212 sure likes you Marc!

Oh, yeah, here's the version I colour corrected for you :P

[multiweb]

:lol::lol::lol:
Touché.

[RB]

Shouldn’t you be doing the red channel for him Lewis?

:lol:

[LewisM]

No, he's doing that for me

[RB]

:P :lol:

[RyanJones]

I see what you mean when you commented you were working on Ara just closer up ! That's amazing !

[RobF]

Nice going Marc
So this was with the QHY9 and CN212?

[multiweb]

Thanks Ryan. :thumbsup: Yes a little closer :)

Thanks Rob.:thumbsup: Yes, attached a pic of the rig.