IC4603, IC4604 and IC 4605

[marc4darkskies]

I took this semi wide field of a section of the colourful Rho Ophiucus complex over the last 3 evenings before the moon rose. I had to fight with the seeing at low elevation as well as the city lights are on my SE horizon - hence 3 nights for a mere 4 hours of data.

This was also the first time I used the Tak 645 "Super Reducer" on my 150 to get me to F5.5 - a nice piece of glass!

Comments and critique always welcome!

Small:
http://www.pbase.com/image/95046091/large (http://www.pbase.com/image/95046091/large)

Large (3.6M):
http://www.pbase.com/image/95046091/original (http://www.pbase.com/image/95046091/original)

Cheers, Marcus

[skwinty]

Superb pictures Markus.
You obviously doing this for some time now.
:thumbsup:

[iceman]

Wow, absolutely stunning result Marcus. I love it.

Are you going to SPSP?

[Garyh]

Beautiful Markus! Lovely and sharp and superb colors.
Love it! :thumbsup:
Lol just noticed I said almost the same as Steve and Mike..:)

[Ric]

Excellent Marcus, the triple star looks fantastic and nebulosity is awesome with is twists and swirls.

One fine image, well done

[marc4darkskies]

Thanks Mike. Yep, heading up to Wiruna bright and early!



Cheers Gary. Yes, the colours are brilliant aren't they! Believe it or not I didn't do any colour saturation in PS - just curves, levels, colour balance and noise reduction! I think I feel a mosaic coming on to get the rest of the complex.



Thanks Ric. Yes, the stars look good gorgeous amidst the blue (even without spikes! ;))



Thanks a lot Steve. Actually, I've only been in the game for a little over a year.

Cheers, Marcus

[leon]

That is some imaging Marcus, beautiful capture indeed, love the different colors, well done.

Leon

[Phil]

Hi Marcus stunning shot mate love the colour.
Phil

[Peter Ward]

Marcus,

Nothing not to be impressed by here. Definitely places you in the
heavy hitters league :)

Pristine round stars, great image scale, good framing, great colour.

Very well done.

[marc4darkskies]

Thanks Leon! I've always wanted to image this area with "natural" colour tones - I'm very pleased with how it turned out.



Cheers Phil! Glad you liked it!



Thanks Peter, high praise indeed! I'm proud to say I won a prize at SPSP for it as well - a very nice surprise!

Cheers, Marcus

[spearo]

Awesome, smooth, top shots
frank

[Peter Ward]

Nah. No surprise at all. I suspect the judges had their fingers on the pulse :)

[RB]

Marcus, that is stunning, congrats on a superb image !!

Congrats also on winning a prize for it as well at SPSP.

Too bad I couldn't make it this year so we could meet up. :sadeyes:

Cheers mate.

[marc4darkskies]

Thanks Andrew.

With SPSP being held towards the end of May next year, at least we won't need eskies to keep the beer chilled! :cold:

Cheers, Marcus