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[Tom Davis]

This is a nicely shaped dark nebula in Cepheus. It hasn't been imaged much.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_0000e9.htm

-Tom

[Octane]

Cepheus is full of awesome.

An excellent image, yet again.

H

[renormalised]

Nice shot, Tom:)

Some of the sparser parts of the neb have a very slight greenish tinge to them, most likely result of some faint reflection and light coming through the dust from background stars.

[leon]

Have to agree, beautifully captured.

Leon

[multiweb]

Great shot Tom with your trademark processing. Superb. :thumbsup:
Reminds me a bit of the hand of god that Mike imaged a while ago.

[desler]

Wow Tom, Not much to say but inspirational.

Darren

[Tom Davis]

Thanks H!




This greenish tinge that you mention is the bane of dust processing. In my dust processing I try to achieve coloration of the dust based on G2V calibration. I could reduce the saturation until there was no color, or at least very little, but that is not the look that I am trying for.




Thanks Leon!



Thanks Marc!

[Tom Davis]

Thanks Darren.

[Alchemy]

Hmmm .... Just more typical Tom Davis shots









BRILLLIANT :thumbsup::D

[Lester]

Wonderful view Tom, thanks.

[Paul Haese]

You know Tom each time I open one of your images I feel like a kid walking into the lolly shop (candy store). I know I am in for a treat but I just don't know what I am going to get.

Your images have inspired me to do more and more dust busting myself. Working on several projects at present, but I can only dare to dream of having all my images look as good as yours in the years to come.

Wonderful image once again. Superb.:thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

I agree with Paulie except I alwyas think there is a good chance it will be dusty :P ;) :lol:

Mike

[Tom Davis]

Thanks mate.



Thanks Lester.



Thanks Paul. I appreciate your kind words. I never thought of my images as inspiring, just sort of unusual -- off the beaten tract. When I set up to process an image I try to get as much out of the data as reasonably possible. Sometimes that approach works and sometimes it doesn't. I just keep trying!



Dusty is the besty!!!:D

[gregbradley]

That's a beauty. You always get your star colours just perfect and the stars always are fascinating all by themselves in your images.

It'd be great if you did a tutorial type writeup for this site on how you accomplish that as I think most astrophotographers would be very interested.

I like the FSQ and RHA combo. No diffractions spikes and you have those wonderful refractor type stars yet the fast F ratio and large aperture of the RHA and the sharpness of the FSQ.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Yep - imaging heaven :thumbsup:

Although diffraction spikes can make many images look pretty cool though :D

Mike

[TrevorW]

Nice image Tom you keep raising the bar

[Tom Davis]

I am not sure what I do that is any different than anyone else. Maybe you guys can invite me down to present at a conference and then I can process an image in real time. That way you could see what I do. ;)



Agreed. Especially for open clusters --spikes are the way to go with them.



Thanks Trevor.

[richardo]

Lovely job Tom.
The Riccardi Honders looks to be a very well designed scope and is producing some excellent images for you of late in combo with your Taka images.

More dust please!

Rich

[Ross G]

Amazing photo Tom.

Every time you post, I learn of a new object in the sky.


Thanks.


Ross.