M20 - DSI RC10 and QHY-9

[Grahame]

Gday all,

This weekends effort - M20 - LRGB at 130:30:30:30
Bin 2x2 for all colour data

Captured with MaximDL
Stacked with CCDSTACK
Processed in Photoshop CS5

Hope the contrast/brightness is ok on this one :)
Large version here (http://astro-photo.net/jpg/m20_PS5_IIS_web_large.jpg)

Grahame.

[Ken Crawford]

The color and contrast looks spot on! very nice ....

[Octane]

You did that with a DSI?

:prey2:

H

[multiweb]

Oohaah! That's the best one I've seen in a long while. :2thumbs:

[marc4darkskies]

Excellent rendition Grahame! Impressive detail and the colour is spot on!

Cheers, Marcus

[suma126]

awesome shot well done :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

DSI = DeepSky Instrument. Top shelf RC10 :)

[Octane]

Ohhhh. lol. I completely skipped the QHY-9 bit and thought it was taken with a DSI II.

Still, it is a beautiful image. Awesome work, Grahame. :)

H

[jjjnettie]

Sleek and smooth and the star colours are beauuuutiful!

[strongmanmike]

An excellent Trifid :thumbsup:

Mike

[TrevorW]

Good one Grahame

[gregbradley]

A lovely Trifid. Love the tight small stars.

Greg.

[Gem]

LOVE the colour!!!!

[Doomsayer]

Graeme - a textbook shot! great stuff...
Do you have the DS with the field flattener?? - I have similar optics but in 12" and with a flattener - I am still cosidering removing the flattener in mine as I use a 6303chip and suspect I can get away with it - mainly to get some more backfocus for my RC.
cheers
guy

[Doomsayer]

oh...
forgot to add that the reason for my question was that my flattener is actually the same as the one supplied with the 10" DeepSky Instruments RC - Paul Jones advised that the 10" flattener was compatible with my 12" RC optical set.

thanks, guy

[Grahame]

Thanks all! Seems im heading down the right track with my processing finally :) FYI I am using Astronomik type IIc filters. and eXcalibrator to give me an idea of the colour ratios i need to use during stacking.

Guy: Yes im using the corrected version which will future proof me for larger CCD's.

Grahame.

[Hagar]

Very nice Grahame. Everything looks very nice. Nothing here to be concerned about.

[peter_4059]

Great image Grahame. The detail in the nebulosity is very amazing.

[leinad]

Cracker of a shot Grahame. Over jealous of your optics :P
One of my favourites, and this is certainly pleasing to the eye.
Keep em' coming.

[batema]

Beautiful image. Well done. Focus and colours look excellent.

[bmitchell82]

Now all you need Grahame is that big chip that your talking about for future proofing! :) done well cheif and especially with the Kwinana industrial strip only 20 k up the road! :D Imagine what it would be like not sitting in your back yard?

[midnight]

Well done Grahame! A favourite of mine and well presented.

Darrin...

[Saturn%5]

Very nice shot :)

[Octane]

I reckon this deserves IOTW. :)

H

[Manav]

I got scared when I saw cracking M20 image and DSI in the title as well!

Nice image

[midnight]

I agree. I keep returning to this image regularly!

Darrin...

[Paul Haese]

Very nice work. Stars have a good shape and the detail is superb. Colour is also very nice.

[Jeffkop]

Absolutely nailed the focus too !!!!!! ... on top of all the other positive comments ... One of the best of these Ive seen really ... In a word .. fantastic.