Radio Noise...

[Peter Ward]

No doubt bad timing (but it is the Cent A season after all) with some great examples on IIS already.

My most recent take is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery470.html)

[leon]

Lovely capture Peter, love the spikes on the larger stars, nice shooting.

Leon

[alan meehan]

Amazing shot Peter so much detail

[alpal]

Hi Peter,
that's such a sharp clear picture.
the optics are amazing in your scope.


cheers
Allan

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Alan....the seeing wasn't too bad, hence the res was nicely on par.



Very kind Leon....but I yearn for a dark site to truly make the Alluna shine, which may now be a serious possibility.... as we are looking at a "weekender" on the NSW south coast next week (soon to become the "tropical south" :lol: )

[Atmos]

I think I need a bigger scope to even come close to that level of contrast :)

[RobF]

This is the calendar pic in my office currently Peter, and your image gives it some nice context.

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1110a/

[Peter Ward]

Thanks....but, there are no laws that prevent you getting a bigger 'scope :)



Ta Rob....I'm guessing the HST people used my data for their colour balance...then again, maybe not :lol:
(yes, I do look at other data to see whether my images from light pollution central are vaguely "colour" correct...)

[Stevec35]

I think I've just about run out of superlatives for your Alluna images Peter but here are a few more. That's just a great Cen A. Incredible resolution combined with silky smoothness.

Cheers

Steve

[multiweb]

Another coker! Superb details. Lots of background faint fuzzies with structure in that field too. :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Steve and Marc. I think Rolf Olsen has set the gold standard for depth on this one, but I'm pretty happy with the resolution of this recent version.

I'm also toying with the idea of moving to a Taurus (Bisque fork) mount to more easily capture data up to and through the zenith...which pays serious light pollution mitigation dividends from my urban location....interesting times :)

[Benjamin]

Just amazing. Lovely colour and detail.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Ben. A little deeper to emulate the ESO 2.2 metre image (https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1221a/) (as the ESO state
"likely the deepest image of NGC5128 ever created") would be nice, but I'd be chasing my tail in doing so from light pollution central.

[topheart]

Congratulations Peter.

A superb image.
Cheers,
Tim

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Tim...high praise indeed. :thanx:

[beren]

:thumbsup: Knew the image was going to be the usual high standard but opening the link, wow, what a jaw dropper......congratulations Peter

[Peter Ward]

Ta. I appreciate the feedback, but would like to address a few things going on with another post of the same object.

Andy chimed in on my M42 post and made a critique. I looked at what he said, agreed and fixed it. It's called peer review.

There were no cries of "blasphemer!" from yours truly.

Peer review points out things we as individuals may have missed, and I appreciated Andy's frank and fearless comments.

I made an observation with another high profile member's recent post...something I have not done for that individual for some time...
and *after* being publically abused contacted that person with what I foolishly thought would be a frank and private email, only to have it published and then called: privileged, pompous, narcissistic , to Fokker off and must clearly masturbate....not quite the result I expected!

Out of all the above...which is water of a duck's back to me... the "privileged" was the most pig-ignorant and absurd.

I was raised by a single mum on a deserted mothers pension....there was no silver spoon. Just determination and hard work that gave me a great education, a fantastic career and opportunities that went with it.

Sure, I now use some great instruments to take the images that I post here. But like many others I started with something very modest and worked slowly upwards.

Some may think imaging is some sort of pissing competition. If so, I think you'd be deluded.

Rather than "key" the enamel of that shiny new car, I look at it and think: nice, if I work hard I can have one too.

And so it is with imaging. Sure good gear helps, but without a work ethic the results will just be average.

[multiweb]

Just enjoy your toys Peter and don't worry about the noise. :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc...indeed...my family has just flown in this week from distant shores giving me much joy and a reality check.

....this small stuff is not even a blip on the radar. :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

A beautiful image Peter all the more amazing being done from the suburbs.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Very kind Greg.

I took a hint from Steven Mohr when we met for the first time at Greenwich last year....

Steve struck me as very unassuming, but is really focused, uses multi-year data, has a seriously dark-sky robotic site in Victoria,
and rarely uses data more than 20 degrees or so below transit.

He (deservedly) *won* the Royal Observatory Greenwich APOTY 2018 galaxy prize, and I could only look on and think, bugger me...now that is serious dedication to imaging!!

BTW the recognition he subsequently got back in Oz, I think was frankly piss-weak.

Suffice to say, I took notes! I'm not at that level of dedication just yet, but now know what it takes (this image is perhaps a small example)
to break new ground.