My deepest Tarantula and friends

[Garyh]

Hi guys and Gals,
A lot of us were lucky in eastern N.S.W. on friday night to get some nice clear dark skies..:).
Here is my best and deepest shot of the Tarantula neb area with my 6" newt and Canon 300D. Guided with a toucam and PHD.
Image is 20 x 6min at iso 800. Seeing was average but got better throughout the night!
Sat back with my wife and watched the odd geminoid cross the sky!
All comments most welcome on my processing and colors..:thumbsup:
Image does suffer a bit from jpg compression but to post...
I have never been happy with any of my attempts before but I am quiet pleased with this go!..:)
That cloud is back now but at least we got a clear night and right on the Geminod peak!
cheers Gary

[iceman]

Wow Gary! I know why you are proud of that! That's brilliant. Colours and detail are superb.

[leon]

Nice one Gary there really is some array of colour in that image, very striking,

Leon

[browndog]

Really nice image :thumbsup:
The extra time in gathering data has really helped.
Great colours and detail - one to be proud of.

[jase]

Great work Gary. Really love the knots of nebulosity in the wide field view. Colour balance also looks good, perhaps slightly on the teal/aqua tint but nothing major. Well done.:thumbsup:

[Ric]

Nice one Gary, that is one spectacular image.

Top stuff

[danny]

Awsome image, great deatail and colour:thumbsup: Blows me away that its not even in our galaxy, well done;)

[jjjnettie]

That's so pretty. I could look at it for ages and still find more detail that I'd missed.
I've set it as my desktop picture on the computer.
Thank you very much for posting it here.

[Garyh]

Thanks Mike! I am glad to manage to capture that much detail! and finally get a whole clear night. :)
cheers



Thankyou Leon for you lovely comment! :)



Thanks Browndog, I`m trying to go 2hours now that I have the autoguiding setup.. :thumbsup:



Thanks Jase! :) glad you didn`t mind it..
So hard to work out the color balance for this image as every image I have looked at is so different...from magenta,red to blue to green.
I need to bookmark a site of one of the experts! ;) to give me a idea..
cheers



Thankyou Ric for that!!!...:D


So true too Danny! didn`t think of it that way! We are lucky to be able to do this down in the south..:)
Thanks again..



Thanks Jeanette..:D glad you are enjoying the view!
Always makes it worthwhile to post and share ones efforts...good or bad!
thankyou..:thumbsup:

Might give it another process today and see if I can squeeze some more out of the data...
cheers Gary

[EzyStyles]

fantastic tarantula gary. love the colours! heaps of details and good fov.

[dcalleja]

Gary
Brilliant image, great colour and depth and nicely framed!!

[RB]

Wow look at the colours, just beautiful !!

It looks like a high quality opal gemstone.

Well done Gary.

:thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Thanks Eric, Dan and Andrew!
Have reprocessed it since with some more care as the stars were a little burned out and the histogram looked a bit strange..I think its a much improved but not as contrasty...
Thanks people for your comments!..:thumbsup:

[Tamtarn]

The 20 frames have certainly brought out so much detail and nebulosity Gary. Like the reprocessed version

[2020BC]

Really nice detail in there, Gary.

[Phil]

great shot Gray love the colour well done.
Phil

[spearo]

Great shots, especially like the widefield one, beautiful
frank

[Garyh]

Thanks Guys :thumbsup:
Have a safe and happy Christmas and new year!
cheers Gary

[Ingo]

I'd print that and hang it on my wall if I had a high res :)

Fantastic Image. :eyepop:

[Dr Nick]

Brilliant shots! I also had a look at this last night, but i didn't image that, I'm hoping to do so tonight though! Very well done! ;)