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EzyStyles

12-04-2007, 06:11 PM

Hi Guys,

Took this Tuesday night of M104 Sombrero. 16 x 3 mins at ISO 400 darks/flats subtracted. once again i use steve's colour balancing technique and the final result below :)

sheeny

12-04-2007, 06:18 PM

Very nice Eric!

Al.

DobDobDob

12-04-2007, 06:18 PM

Those images are so crisp, the central section (is it called a dust lane?), looks so distinct. Great shot :thumbsup:

Shawn

12-04-2007, 07:15 PM

Had a play with it Ezy, hope you dontr mind...would love to play with the biggies... I think that bought out some detail across the dustcloud disc...

Astroman

12-04-2007, 08:35 PM

Nice one Eric, a favorite of mine M104. You have picked up quite a few of its globs as well, well done.

norm

12-04-2007, 11:11 PM

I motion that too. Nice pics Eric. Something about The Sombrero, its very mystical to me!:)

EzyStyles

12-04-2007, 11:41 PM

cheers guys thanks. pm me your email address shawn and i'll send you the bigger version. what did you do to it? i can now see a second dust lane above the main. nicely done.

Ric

13-04-2007, 12:30 AM

Hi Eric, very nice images.
Your processing techniques have really brought out the best in them.

Cheers

Shawn

13-04-2007, 06:21 AM

Non adaptive Van Cittern Filter on a 3x3 pixel scale, 20 iterations, Gaussian piont spread...the a blur to flatten the Black, masked around the galaxy, then a histo shift in luminance to make the sky darker...Yeah Ezy I would love to play with a hugher resolution, If you want to just crop to 104 to keep the size down,,,

S

EzyStyles

14-04-2007, 04:42 PM

thanks ric. just trying different methods of processing and playing around :P shawn, check your email :)

Ingo

14-04-2007, 04:44 PM

Looks very nice!!

It's my favorite messier object :)

May I ask what focal length that was taken at?

ballaratdragons

14-04-2007, 05:12 PM

:eyepop: Great shot Eric!!!!!!!!!

Wanna swap cameras?:whistle:

EzyStyles

15-04-2007, 04:55 AM

Hi Ingo, it was taken at F4.7 . thanks ken. i'll past on the swap :P

Ingo

15-04-2007, 06:50 AM

I think that's the aperture :shrug:

Focal length would be like 1100mm?

Shawn

15-04-2007, 08:27 AM

No mail, in fact no mail or weekend, not even spam...:shrug:

Dr Nick

15-04-2007, 01:38 PM

Very nice pic ;)

EzyStyles

16-04-2007, 01:27 AM

big slap sorry 1200mm . just resent it shawn. should be ok now. thanks Nick :)