Corona Australis From Border StarGaze

[Hagar]

A compiled image of Corona Australis captured at BSG this year. Please excuse the dirt on the sensor. Just another stuff up by me.
10 X 10 minute exposures captured with QHY8 and FSQ106ED. No calibration files taken or used.

Second image is M8, 10 X 2 minute exposures with the same as above.

[Octane]

Beautiful, Doug!

They've come up a treat. I'll try and ignore the dust bunnies. :)

Regards,
Humayun

[h0ughy]

man they are great shots - i never even got brave enough to use my qhy8 at astrofest. I love your Corona Australis shot

[AlexN]

Corona Australis is brilliant Doug! Well done indeed!

You're M8 shot seems to be lacking saturation a bit.. Personal taste issue I guess.

Well done!

[cookie8]

Great shots. I like the "depth" of the Corona Australis if you know what I mean.

[Screwdriverone]

Love the lagoon Doug, very nice effort, lovely feel to it.

Well done.

Chris

[Rob_K]

Nice stuff Doug, Corona Australis is so deep & you've got the blue of the reflection nebs really popping!! :thumbsup:
Cheers -

[jjjnettie]

Lovely whispy blue nebulosity in C.A. Beautiful!

[multiweb]

Yeah very nice! :thumbsup: Corona Australis really stands out. Lovely colours too.

[renormalised]

Great shots, Doug:D They're not dust bunnies, they're actually part of the neb':P:D:D

[Lester]

Very nice images Doug.

Thanks.

[avandonk]

The dim dark dust has come up a treat in the Cor Aus image Doug. I know how dim that stuff is.

Great images.

Bert

[Omaroo]

Top effort Doug - I especially like the CA shot. Just spectacular. :) :thumbsup:

[marc4darkskies]

Nice work there Doug! I particularly like the Corona A image - you've captured the colour and extent of the dust well. (No, the neb, not the bunnies! ;) )

Cheers, Marcus

[Paul Haese]

I really like the corona a image too. Nice going Doug.

[Paddy]

Beautiful images, especially Corona, Doug.

[gregbradley]

Great shots.

You can probably get a minor gain by using Shadows/highlights tool in Photoshop and use the highlights sliders to tame the slight burn out in the glob and the Lagoon core.

You can do that with curves too using the last top section of the curve only.

Greg.

[seeker372011]

love that CA image

[Hagar]

Thanks for the comments Guy's, I had a few things happening over the weekend so the camera was covered with dirt and grime and time really wasn't on my side for this BSG. Chris and H can vouch for the fact that I really didn't spend any time processing these two images and when I noticed all the dirt I sort of lost the will to try to hard on them.
The one thing I can say about the whole event is it has to be the best event of it's type in the country. David (Unbeliever) and Petra (Space Zebra) do so much to make the weekend a success they really do deserve all the praise we can bestowe on them. Thanks Guys.

This scope (FSQ106ED) and the QHY8 are a match made in heaven for me and I really look forward to spending some time under good skies with this beautifull setup.

Thanks again.

[Alchemy]

nice corona, quick bit of cloning in photoshop will erase the dust blobs.

[spacezebra]

WOW! Doug what great images! Many thanks for the great comments - but at the end of the day, its really those that attend the event that make it what it is!

Cheers Petra d.

[atalas]

Both nice shots Doug!

[Hagar]

Thanks Petra and Louie. A real fun weekend, amongst a few trying times but the praise must go to You and David. No arguments from anyone on this fact.