First post Here - The Blue Lagoon

[Ken Crawford]

I would like to introduce myself and say hello,

Since I have been imaging remotely in South AU for about 2 years now I thought I would join up and start posting here. This is a NB image of M8 I like to call the Blue Lagoon.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Nebulae/M8/M8.htm

Thanks for taking the time to look..

Kindest Regards,

Ken Crawford
www.imagingdeepsky.com

[Hagar]

Very nice rich colours Ken. By the way welcome..... The detail is really nice and sharp.

Thanks for posting.

[seeker372011]

welcome to the forum , Ken

and a great image there

[Octane]

Ken,

I've been a fan of your images for a while.

Great to see you posting here. And, what a pearler to begin the show with!

Welcome aboard!

H

[TheDecepticon]

Wow, awesome, welcome to Ice in Space.:thumbsup:
Great image, beautiful colour! Thanks for sharing.:eyepop:

[DavidU]

Very nice work Ken ! I see you used the new square Astrodon filters.
Smooth and detailed image mate:thumbsup:

[toryglen-boy]

OOOOOOooooo...... !!!!!!


:thumbsup:

[bert]

Welcome to iis Ken,

Your name proceeds you..... we love to have imagers of high esteem here, please keep posting images!

Brett

[multiweb]

Wow! Very nice. Superb details and great colors. :thumbsup:

[AlexN]

Your name indeed proceeds you Ken.. Nice looking image!

I've gotta say, I've been reading your guides for quite a while now with regards to image processing... You are a very very helpful man! :)

[CoolhandJo]

Magnificant widefield image! Welcome to the forum.

[telecasterguru]

Ken,

Welcome to the site and I can't believe how tight those stars are.

Just awesome.

Frank

[spearo]

Ken
Welcome to IIS
Beautiful narrowband image.
I look forward to learning from you!
cheers
frank

[duncan]

One simple word

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pvelez]

Thats a cracker Ken.

For us who haven't had the chance to digest them elsewhere, can you post a link to your guides and other work you've done?

Pete

[DavidU]

Pete, right at the bottom of Kens post,is the link.

[Garyh]

Welcome aboard Ken.
Lovely image for a first post here on IIS down under!
Love your website too...cool graphics etc.
:thumbsup:

[Ken Crawford]

Wow Thanks so much for the warm welcome and the kind encouraging words. I look very forward to hanging out here...

Ken Crawford
www.imagingdeepsky.com

[iceman]

Beautiful image Ken, :welcome: to IceInSpace!

Nice to see you here

Congrats on (yet another) APOD ont he 21st January. Terrific work.

[Omaroo]

Welcome Ken :)

Lovely image, and great to see a narrow-bander on here :thumbsup:

[TrevorW]

Different although a little soft IMO but then I'm a bit of a tradionalist

and thanks for your tutorials as well !!

[pvelez]

oops - thanks David

Pete

[bmitchell82]

Welcome there Ken, thank you once again for your dvd still doing a bit of digesting on it, though it has helped my images to no end and helped me teach some of my mates some helpful tricks.

Oh and trevor, you sure you have your glasses on :) that image is crisp...

[Ken Crawford]

Thanks guys, I am really glad the tutorials are helpful. There are many of the methods I use but I do not feel they are the only way or the best way so use them as a reference to build on.

Remember that the Flash Zoomify allows you to look full screen and zoom in. It takes a bit to res up to full quality at fully zoomed in but you can click and drag it around.

I really wanted to push the depth of field on this and pushing the details of the inner star forming regions. The OIII is hot gas that creates a fog that fills the cavity that the other gases leave from the stellar winds. The question is how much to reveal in processing before you loose the effect of seeing Ha and SII structures though this stuff.

Regards,

[Ken Crawford]

Thanks so much for the welcome! Everyone has really made me feel very welcome and I hope I can contribute something here. This forum seems to be very active and a friendly group of fellow imagers...

And thanks for noticing the APOD. . .

Kindest Regards,

[strongmanmike]

A fine shot Ken, it is nice to have you on here, IIS is slowly building a base of world class imagers, it's great to see :thumbsup:

Mike

[TrevorW]

Brendan I was referring to the colour's not the focusing

[bluescope]

Welcome to IIS Ken ... I have quite a few of your images from the RCOS gallery ... you will certainly raise the bar with your imaging on this forum ... bit high for some of us lowly apprentices I fear but it's always good to have something to aspire to ;)

:thumbsup:

[Bolts_Tweed]

Gday Ken

Welcome mate - fantastic iamge as usual. - Will emailyou soon re coming down here.Now have a venue so we are go i think

Mark Bolton