New 24hrs mosaic and new site layout

[marco]

Dear all, I have just uploaded a new mosaic, this time covering the popular area around Eta Carinae. It is a 4 panel mosaic in HaOIIIRGB, 6 hours per panel/24 hour in total. Here is the link:
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/13667287_YtYhj#1018106513_y2SeH-A-LB
from there is also possible access a page with a zoomify version up to 4000 pixels per side.

This is also the first time I release officially my new website, http://www.glitteringlights.com/

It is still largely a work in progress, however if you could give me soem feedback, critics or suggestion they would be helpful to me to understand if I am going in the right direction. I am not an expert of HTML :shrug: but I will try my best to improve it :lol:

Clear Skies
Marco

[multiweb]

Love those widefields. The site is great. Eye candy. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Another amazing vista Marco, That Pentax-ProLine combo produces wonderful results. The collection of objects that you can view while panning around the field is incredible.

Small critique, for me it has a monochromatic red bias and the red looks just a tad over saturated, this region of the Milky Way has some other wonderfull colour shades. Regardless of this it is quite spectacular!

As for your web site...well with images like yours it is hard to have a bad site, the scramble to see your amazing images would well over shadow any frustrations in navigating :thumbsup:

Mike

[Alchemy]

Well put together image, site looks good, location where you live .... Dome city ..... Looks great love the 2 nights out of 3 for imaging, just a little bit better than Melbourne.

My only comment on the website of a concern to me, is I couldn't get the large image up, note I am using an iPad, which can be strange with large files and flash based setups don't work, but If that's the case, you might perhaps, if such gadgets take off, be missing out on viewers.

I have trouble with several others websites such as Peter wards, and Ken crawfords, but that's life i guess.

[marco]

Thanks Marc :)



Thanks Clive. I was not aware of these limitations in using the zoomify script. I opted for this solution since I find it extremely convenient and elegant to show images at very large resolution without having to load a full res jpg of several megabytes of size. I will look further into that, hopethere is a fix to it.. thanks for highlight this..



Thanks Mike! about the red bias, well, on my monitor the background appears a bit too bluish, however I will look at the red cast, this I suppose is due mainly to the overwhelming response in Ha of the region. I actually hoped to have a larger contribution from the OIII that what I actally had, apart from the very bright parts of the nebula of the region and with the exception of the smile nebula, all the rest emission is quite weak. At the same time I opted to reduce the contribution from the RGB channels to the minimum, this to avoid the whole area being suffocated by the stars, when you process these dense wide field areas this is quite a problem.. For reference I have just uploaded the Ha only B&W channel (here http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/13667287_YtYhj#1037673252_MFjgK-X3-LB), as you can see here all nebula are by far better visible and the field is not too crowded..

Thanks for your input, I will give it another look

Clear Skies
Marco

[multiweb]

Zoomify output tiles that load in the player based on swf file format/Flash and iPo/aD don't like the flash player. I use silverlight on mine but still not to everybody's taste. Can't win :P

[Hagar]

Lovely wide field Marco. Just had a bit of a swim around your web site. Quite amazing and very well put together.
Well done.