Reprocessed Carina Sorry!

[avandonk]

Taken with the TAL200K and Canon 5DH. It is a HDR and single FOV.

Here 1MB

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~fmlee/carina_tal200k_7887.jpg


I was bored with the inclement weather.

Bert

[leon]

Know how you feel Bert, I have re-processed some of my images to the point Ive worn out the pixels. :whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[EzyStyles]

very nice repro Bert. I know how you feel with the weather. its shocking isn't it?

[jase]

Great image scale on the full sized image Bert. Nice work on the repro. Well done.

[avandonk]

Thanks all for your comments. I actually shot this without an LPR filter as it is at f/9. I just maximised the signal to noise of all three colour channels and ended up with this image. I am sure that the colour balance is being affected by the inherent light pollution at my suburban site.

What is really interesting how well the TAL200K does at resolving the objects in the field. The curved spiders also do not introduce annoying diffraction spikes but 'fuzzy' flairing around the brighter stars. The HDR method is the major reason why you can see the two lobes of the Homunculus around Eta as well as all the faint nebulousity.

Below is a HDR from 2,4,8,15,30 sec exposures of Eta and a Hubble image animated gif. These were taken on the same night as the large image.

Bert

[Bassnut]

Good stuff Bert, well done, interesting it was done with HDR,very interesting.

On the tricky GIF, nice effect, I like your image better, more red :D

[avandonk]

Jase it was done at 1790mm and f/9 with the TAL200K. The EQ6 with belt drives and the Bartels system has no problems accurately tracking even at this FL. There is NO (discernible) backlash as the mount has been adjusted to within a tad and shown the firing squad just in case. The only regret I have is that I had the wrong spacer (thin) in the Hutech FR/FF so there is a bit of field curvature.

Here is an image with the correct spacer but focus went slightly off with a very large drop in temperature.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~fmlee/30dor_tal.jpg


Bert

[tornado33]

Nice images there, the big ones look detailed and great for my Vista64 box to zoom in and out with.
Scott

[Bassnut]

Vista64 zooms in different to XP?

[tornado33]

With the image viewer in my older XP box (amd3200) the zoom function seemed quite slow. With the new Vista 64 box (quad Intel 9450 (2.6ghz) the zoom is lightning quick even on big DSLR images. Moving the scroll wgeel on the mouse sees instant results
Scott