RCW 19 region in Puppis

[Tom Davis]

This is a pretty interesting area not imaged often.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_0000ba.htm

Tom

[gregbradley]

Just brilliant. I love the star colours and overall patches of pastel shades of various nebula you get in your images. Just beautiful.

You're so consistent with your images.

Greg.

[Ric]

Wonderful Tom, those globules are awesome.

[telecasterguru]

That is just beautiful. Oh what I give to be able to image for that length of time.

Frank

[marc4darkskies]

Hmmm, let's see ... star colour & shape, check ... rich neb colour, check ... great detail, check ... featureless sky is neutral & near black, check ... nice framing, check ... low noise, check ....

... Oh stop it Tom!!!! How about posting a few images we can criticise to show us you're human!! :abduct: ;)

Cheers, Marcus :lol:

PS: I still want to see a full res version of your images. :whistle: I'd love to see every one of those 16 gorgeous Mpixels!! :)

[strongmanmike]

Yes beautifull for sure Tom, an interesing mix too, thanks for sharing again...and again...and again...:lol:

You really are an imaging machine mate :eyepop:...That FLI ProLine 16803 is a killer (I want one...:P....coming in a week or two :party:)...I wish I was in the position to take as many images as you can though :doh: :rolleyes:

Mike

[TrevorW]

Tom I noticed 16hrs on this one, how many nights remote capturing does that take

what size are the download files per frame

Another top shot

[Bassnut]

Exquisitly balanced, from star flouresence to glob detail to colour generally. A pleasure to view Tom

[Bolts_Tweed]

Damn fine Tom

You know looking at your images makes me feel like i'm at a Playboy bunny parade. Sitting here looking and thinking 'Id love to do that' but equipment and ability lets me down ;). In both cases - maybe one day.

Congratulations again - you give us something to aim for.

Mark Bolton

[mill]

That looks mighty fine Tom :thumbsup:
Cant fault it, nice star colors and composition.

[Octane]

Sublime.

7 Internets to you, sir.

H

[Jen]

:eyepop: wow nice work Tom the colors in this are just beautiful :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Tom Davis]

Thanks everyone.

Tom

[Tom Davis]

This one was over three nights.

When CCD Commander saves the file it uses Maxim's lossless compression routine so each file is about 14mb. Without the compression, a 16bit file from the KAF-16803 is 32mb.

Tom

[multiweb]

Great colors & details. Another master piece. :thumbsup:

[TrevorW]

Thanks Tom

[suma126]

looks fantastic as usual. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thum bsup::thumbsup:

[jase]

Lovely work Tom. A filling visual feast cooked to perfection. Thanks for sharing.

[gregbradley]

Ooh, that's interesting to know.
I find sometimes processing the 16803 images a bit slow and tedious as 32mb files mean unless you have a super hot computer CCDstack is going to run very slowly and max of 5-6 images at a time.

I'll have to get Maxim DL at some point.

Greg.

[Tom Davis]

I agree regarding the impact that 16803 files put in your pc. I finally got so frustrated that I bought a quad core-64bit, 8gb RAM, windows 7 (64bit) machine. Now I can calibrate, stack, data reject/combine up to 50 frames at a time -- all while surfing the web!

Tom

[gregbradley]

That's good to know. I7 chipped computers are much cheaper now too.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Great image Tom, lots of interesting things to look at and well processed.