An Experiment in finding dust

[Tom Davis]

I saw that there was supposed to be dark nebulae the region of Lupus. I decided to image the region and see what I could get. This is not supposed to be a "pretty picture". No framing; just point and shoot (for 11 hours total). Here's what I got:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007a.htm

Lots of stuff everywhere I point my scope! It may take a while to load with the mouse-over.

Tom

[h0ughy]

gee wizz out with the dyson in that area!! fantastic - and how will you eventually do this justice with the final imaging sessions and reprocessing - looks impressive to me?

[strongmanmike]

Great site, great scope, great camera and great processing you got it all, no wonder you can just point and shoot anywhere and get stuff :thumbsup:. To have the luxury of being able to do this really opens up the heavens like never before :)
Imaine what the planned new 8.1m sky mapper, that can image the whole sky above down to 24mag in just three nights, will be able to do :eyepop:

You seemed to have imparted quite a bit of colour into faint dust with rather modest colour data Tom, any secret to doing that?

Mike

[atalas]

Top work Tom.

[JD2439975]

WOW!...that's lovely Tom.

Those hours sure paid off.

[Tamtarn]

Can't recall ever seeing this region imaged before Tom. Thanks for the 11 hours spent in capturing such an unusual subject to share with us. Spectacularly done!!

D&B

[dcalleja]

Tom
A remarkable image. I've never seen this region before

[jjjnettie]

excellent work
thanks for sharing it with us

[Garyh]

Beautiful image Tom, Like Barb and Dave mention, have never seen this before. The dust has such a lovely color and saturation!
cheers

[Tom Davis]

Some saturation before DDP and then during Photoshop process careful saturation so to not make the colors blotchy.

Tom

[multiweb]

Very impressive. All your shots got this "Wow!" factor. Top work. :thumbsup:

[Inmykombi]

excellent work and dedicastion there o get 11 hrs worth.

Well done.

Thx for posting the image it is really interesting to have a "wander" through it.

Geoffro.

[spearo]

very nice indeed
well done
frank

[telecasterguru]

This is the most extraordinary image. The amount of detail is amazing and I could look at it for hours.

Thanks