Samples from Queensland astrofest 2010

[h0ughy]

I have yet to process all of my data, and i will need to reprocess these ones again as they were hurriedly done and not in the best of condition ;)

i am still learning to process


they are a mix of the 20D and 80Ed , 300mm l lens and the cooled 40D, the cooled 350D and the 135mm lens

[h0ughy]

and a few more

[iceman]

Nice work Dave - looks like they'll keep you busy for a long time!

[spacezebra]

Stunning David!

Cheers Petra d.

[Octane]

Awesome bag there!

May I ask what the 4th image is of? I've seen it before but have forgotten what it is.

Look forward to each one!

H

[troypiggo]

Wow! What a collection!

[renormalised]

Nice shots there, Dave:)

Hurried or not, you did a very good job on those:)

[h0ughy]

you are not wrong - i have just a tad over 100Gig

thanks Petra

north American Neb and the pelican - badly composed as i didn't want to rotate camera as M31 was my prime objective - i have 10 hours on that. the north American Neb is far too low to really get any benefit - just got it because Scott alder cant ;):lol:

thanks, the best stuff is yet to be processed

thanks - really only wanted to see what i had got and roughly what i could get from it

[jjjnettie]

A tasty selection Dave. :)

[tornado33]

Nice stuff indeed, I eagerly await the final processing of everything you got there.
Scott

[avandonk]

All look good to me Dave. On a good night if I climb onto the roof of the house I can just make out the faint smudge of M31 very low near the horizon I think.

The only advice I can give is practice, practice etc. These latest images show it is working. You may have a bit of catching up to do with Scott.

Bert

[h0ughy]

thnaks JJJ - i have a few objects i havent even looked at yet to stack, and some stacked files to look at.... BTW i loke what you got with 253 - one i never looked at but will eventually get

i have heaps to go to get anywhere near him Bert:lol:

[h0ughy]

scott i can give you a data dump - then you can go for it....

[strongmanmike]

Sensational collection Dave!! Great to be able to catch those boring northern hemisphere objects too :P

Mike

[h0ughy]

thanks Mike- maybe one day you will attend?;)

[Alchemy]

Quite a bag you've got there, enough to keep you chained to he computer for a while. Nice variety too, vie never been to a star party, must be a lot of fun.

Clive.

[h0ughy]

they are worth every waking minute:D

[multiweb]

Quite a gallery. Very nice indeed. Well done. :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks Marc - tis only the begining - i might have to get a website to show in full res:shrug::question:

[seeker372011]

smokin' !
You must have had a fair few all nighters

[h0ughy]

well i might have had a couple:question:

[RobF]

Whew- quite a collection of data there Houghy
Have fun processing further!

Rob

[jase]

Awesome wide fields David. The CrA shot really shows the expanse of dust. Incredible. Dark skies prevail yet again.

[tornado33]

Youre too kind :)

Yeah I will have a play with your data if you like :)
I dont often get to work with dark sky data.
Scott

[h0ughy]

thanks Rob

Thanks for the tick of approval Jase - yes dark skies are king!!



see you sometime soon Scott

[Stevec35]

A great collection of images to be sure.

Cheers

Steve

[Phil Hart]

what a set of images.. :thumbsup: that's a very productive few nights of imaging. you were clearly up quite late as well! gotta be happy with those. data looks clean and like it will reward a lot more processing. lovely stuff.

Phil

[h0ughy]

something to work on;)

[h0ughy]

Thanks Phil there would have been more but for the cloud/rain and fog, oh and a few power issues.

[h0ughy]

whats left to look at?

well i got some token time on orion, acrux, antares, a glob in sagitarius, a deepsky area in sag(point and shoot after power outage ), eta, helix, the planet conjunction, flame, tarantula neb, LMC and a few others i have yet to identify.

[h0ughy]

here is the helix - squint

[TrevorW]

Looks like a productive week was had, good collection David

[marco]

this is a nice collection of images David, this astrofest resulted to be very productive for you :)

Clear Skies
Marco

[h0ughy]

Well Marco you can always say i wanted more;) but time and clouds killed that theory:lol::sadeyes:

[h0ughy]

well here is a shot of M42 taken through very thick morning fog, and a very quick shot of eta taken on a very windy night - both terrible shots but taken just to say i got it lol

[dugnsuz]

Wow - that's a quality set of images Dave.
My faves are the dark nebulae.
Sorry that the 70-200 didn't get there in time - would have loved to see what you could have pulled out of that lens
Very nice indeed
Doug

[h0ughy]

then you go and put up your 300mm lens and make me nervous;)

[dugnsuz]

The doghouse beckons!!??

[h0ughy]

well the M31, veil, lagoon and the corona shots were with a 300MM L lens

[dugnsuz]

That Andromeda pic is beautiful (others aren't too bad either!)- which 300mm lens did you use?
The 2.8L??

[h0ughy]

the older version of the 2.8L

the setups are as follows

[Martin Pugh]

You had a very productive time obviously and this is a collection of very good DSLR shots Dave.

well done

Martin

[h0ughy]

Thanks Martin, i had a ball but wished i had got more data