IC 2944 Running Chicken

[Tamtarn]

Imaged on Sunday night.

8 x 7min light frames ISO800 ICNR ......... Pentax ist DL

Stacked DSS Processed PSCS2


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[Dennis]

Hi Dave & Barb

Gee, you guys are being incredibly productive with that Pentax. A terrific image and 7 minute light frames –wow, now that is good! It looks nice and clean, with round stars and just very pleasing to the eye.

Cheers

Dennis

[spearo]

Very nice and crisp
well done
frank

[Hagar]

nice sharp image with lots of detail and depth. Well done.

[leon]

Barb and Dave, now I have looked for that elusive chook in your image,:lol: but have failed to see it, :shrug: now with that useless bit of information said, your image is very impressive, all looks pretty good to me, well done.;)

Leon :thumbsup:

[Matty P]

A very detailed and colourful image. Well done. :thumbsup:

I aswell, fail to see a running chicken in the image. :doh:

[Tamtarn]

The Pentax has served us well Dennis. We're looking at getting a 40D soon . We hope we can improve our images with the Canon. :)



Thanks for the comments Frank



Thanks Doug



Leon we can't see the chook either :lol: Don't know who named it. Maybe it's obvious in deeper or better quality images :shrug:



Thanks for the comments Matty. Don't know why it's called the running chicken :shrug:

[beren]

:thumbsup:Congrats top image, reminiscent of the fine Eta image you guys posted a little while back :)

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for the positive comments Stuart we really appreciate it

[Garyh]

Great capture Barb and Dave! I can even make out some Blok Globs!
cheers Gary

[Ric]

Great image Barb & Dave, that is a wonderful region of nebulosity and you have captured it very nicely.

Cheers

[EzyStyles]

very nice shot guys, you can even see the dark neb globulars in the central region.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Ric glad you like it.

[RB]

That's a beautiful result Barb & David.
I love the colours, especially how you've picked up some nice yellow stars in there too.
The histogram seems a little clipped in the shadows but the overall look is great.

Perhaps my only suggestion would be to post a larger size as the 600 x 567 pixels doesn't do it justice.
You'd be able to easily post one at double the res and yet still maintain detail.

In PS CS2 I resize my images from original to around the 1000px mark and tick "Bi-cubic Sharper" next to the "Re-sample Image" option.
Then use the "Save for web" menu item under "File" to save it as a jpg to fit within the forum limit.

Once again an excellent result.
:)

[Tamtarn]

Pardon our ignorance guys. You both have mentioned blok and neb globs. Not sure whether we we've got this right :P Are the dark areas I have selected in this image what you're talking about. I have enhanced them a bit.
Barb

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You're right about the clipping Andrew. Have tried to adjust it but lose too much detail in the nebula.

Thanks for the tip on resizing :thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Spot on there! those are a couple of those Blok thingo`s
:thumbsup:

[Tamtarn]

:lol: :lol: Thanks Gary ..........Now we know what a Blok Thingo is :whistle:

[Dietmar]

:)hi B&D,

very nice capture!