Omega Centauri & Jewel Box

[Tamtarn]

Both taken on 8/4/08

NGC 5139 Omega Centauri

Details :: 1 X 2min and 6 x 5min Lights and 6 Darks 5mins ISO800

41256

NGC 4755 Jewel Box

Details :: 6 x 5min Lights and 6 x 5min Darks

41258

Canon 40D Skywatcher 200mm

Higher Resolution http://barb.david.1.googlepages.com/home

[MortonH]

Beautiful!

[RB]

Guys these are absolutely beautiful !
I keep flicking back between the two images and feel like I'm in a high class jewelry store savoring their merchandise.

Excellent work.

[acropolite]

Stunning Images, did you have to modify the newt to allow the 40D to come to focus??

[Tamtarn]

Hi Phil

The newt tube itself has not been modified ( I assume you are referring to shortening the tube or moving the primary upward ).

We did replace the rack and pinion focuser that came as standard with a 10:1 crayford focuser, which did not help bring the camera to focus.

The camera came to focus only with the use of an MPCC.which changed the focal point.

David

[dcalleja]

The Jewel Box is very aptly name. Very crisp images!

[Phil]

Wow Stunning shots
Phil

[AlexN]

mmmmm pretty!

[shane shaw]

Love Your Work

[Ric]

Two remarkable images, the colours and details look perfect in these two images.

Top stuff and well done.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Morton



Thanks Andrew. We're pleased with the jewel box particularly as we know that a few have had trouble with capturing the different colour stars.
We appreciate your comments



Thanks Dan the jewel box is always a favourite of ours visually in our 12" dob


Thanks Phil



Thanks

[Antu]

WOW !! Amazing images. Especially I like the colors and overall balance. Very good job, congratulations !

[Alchemy]

nice images barb and dave ..... good teamwork ,

its just not fair its only clear during the week when i have to work and on the weekend cloudy

[iceman]

Beautiful images, lovely star colours.

Excellent work as usual.

[Garyh]

JUST BEAUTIFUL!
both a very nice images....I love the diffraction spikes in the jewel box image. :)
cheers Gary

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Shane appreciate it.



Thanks Ric. Getting the star colours right seems to take forever :)



Thanks Antu. We appreciate your positive comments



Sometimes we get lucky Clive :D



Thanks Mike. As stated above. It's a time consuming task getting the colours right.



We always use the natural spikes in our images Gary but this time we added spikes with PS actions as they seemed to add a little more to the final result ;)

[dannat]

that OC pic is :jawdrop:, well done

[Tamtarn]

:lol: Thanks Daniel

[peter_4059]

Omega Cent is a great image - love the small stars and the colours. Well done.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Peter. We had previously imaged Omega Centauri with the Pentax so it was good to compare the difference using the 40D.as it seemed to bring out more star colours.
It was our first try at the Jewel Box and are reasonably happy with the result.

[jase]

Magnificent images Barb and David. Well done. Also checked your website, very nice portfolio.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Jase appreciate your comments.

We are still on that learning curve journey. Then guess we will always be on it. :) Hopefully we will continue to improve.