Lagoon and triffid widefield

[taxman]

I forgot to charge my battery, so had to dust off the DSLR (I was not going to waste a perfectly good alignment).

Funnily enough, there are still some stretched stars in the corners despite the use of a dedicated flattener on the FS60.

Also, there are some artifacts in the lagoon - not sure where they came from, everything is clean and I used flats (my new lightbox from exfso), so would appreciate any ideas how they might have shown up.

The attached JPEG was compressed to 30% quality of an 85% reduction of the original. Levels were adjusted in GIMP and no other processing was performed. It is the best 120 of 150 x 30 sec shots with 50 darks, 50 flats and 50 dark flats taken with an unmodded 1000D on an unguided mount at 370mm FL.

[strongmanmike]

Hi Matt

That's an excellent shot of this pair, very well processed by the looks of it but I am unsure of the artifacts you are refering too..?

This version cannot really be appreciated with the terrible jpeg compression artifacts though.

Mike

[strongmanmike]

Matts image looks much better here:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/123891879/original

Matts new temporary album:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/matt_smith__images

Mike :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

:eyepop: The highres is superb Matt. You did a great job on those two. Lovely field. :thumbsup:

[Tilt]

Top work Matt, being able to see the higher res image is great.

Michael

[taxman]

I would like to thank Mike for hosting my image :thanx:. I should look at getting a wordpress or similar account - that makes 2 images I am (reasonably) happy with now :lol:

I must say I was pretty surprised at what 30 second shots could produce - I only got the DSLR out because I had no power for my CCD. I will have to experiment with that a bit more...

The blotches in the bottom two-thirds of M8 I am a little concerned about - I have not seen those in other pictures. Maybe I need to hose out the Canon? The rest of the optics are virtually pristine :shrug:...

[mill]

Do you mean the blotches that are also in this pic?
http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt137/Martin_Meupelenberg/Nebulae/Lagoon_neb_crop.jpg

They belong there :)

[taxman]

Oh...

Thanks Martin.

Now I have one image I am happy with and one I am reasonably happy with...

:P

[JD2439975]

Matt that's a grand improvement on your first image, you're getting the hang of this fast. :thumbsup:
Looking forward to future works.

[avandonk]

Matt you have also caught Asteroid 27 Euterpe.

See this thread

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=59977

Here is an animated gif of crops of my image and yours calibrated for brightness etc by Registar which shows the asteroids movement. 600k

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2010_04/Matt.gif


Bert

[Hagar]

A really lovely image of this lovely pair Matt. The hi res image is superb. The overall field of view really adds to the image beautifully.

Well done.