Lambda Centauri Nebula and Jewel box

[Striker]

Had a great night imaging last night....

I had some problems with some light reflection from the neighbors house but otherwise I had a ball.

The lambda was 8 x 4 minutes guided shots at ISO800
The Jewel box was 10 x 60 seconds guided shots ISO800

Had to crop them severely due to bad vignetting from one corner the flat's didn't get rid off.

Taken with the 20DA on a C11
Lambda was taken with the UHC-S filter
No filter for the Jewel Box.

You know how I process them.

Hope you like them.

[RB]

Both are absolutely stunning Tony.

:eyepop:

That's the Best Jewel Box I've ever seen.

:thumbsup:

[PhotonCollector]

Hello Striker,

That's a nice image you have there of Lambda Centauri. Were you looking over my backyard fence last night ? :lol:
see http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=8790

regards
Paul

[Striker]

Was that you with the large flood light on grrr....

Hahahaha....thats funny.

[Octane]

Tony,

Both wonderful images.

I love the soft diffraction spikes in the Jewel Box.

I was looking at that for a long time from a friend's place last night. It's probably my favourite cluster.

Well done.

Regards,
Humayun

[EzyStyles]

Excellent work tony! i like it.

[Striker]

Thanks guys.

It's nice to be back imaging....I have most of the problems worked out..still a few a head of me though.

I'm enjoying getting defraction spikes of the Celestron C11" SCT...just using fishing line atm.
I wanted them to be suttle and not over powering.

[EzyStyles]

fishing lines tony?? :P

[[1ponders]]

Excellent Tony. They are great shots.


You can come up here and help me sort out my guiding now :mad2: Yours looks pretty spot on.

[Rodstar]

Beautiful images Striker. I'm with Andrew, best Jewel Box I've seen!:thumbsup:

[Striker]

You guys are too kind....thanks

And I thought the Lambda was my pick...lol

[seeker372011]

nice running chicken neb, Tony..all those globules are pretty starkly outlined

[Itchy]

Nice Work Tony :thumbsup:

Your Lambda is Sooo much better than my last attempt:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/itchysastro/IC2948sigmedweb.jpg

If I was to look with a critical eye (who me? :) ), the jewel box may be missing a little colour and the background is a little dark for my taste. Having said that, it is a fine image.



I suspect that it was your neighbours light rather than your flats not working. You can check this by stretching one of your flats to see where the dark areas are. My guess is that they will be fairly even. You can remove most of these strange gradients with software such as ABE or gradient exterminator. If you know what you are doing you can do it with Photoshop too.

Again, well done

Cheers

[Itchy]

He he, I've yet to see the chicken!! :shrug: :rofl:

[Striker]

Thanks Tony....

I will take that onboard....I also consider the Jewel box image to be too dark.

So without saying your right Tony I will just agree with you...lol

[Itchy]

Gee, can't have that can we?

[RB]

You're both wrong, I think it's perfect...but I'm not disagreeing with you both...:lol:

[FOOTPRINT]

Hi Tony,
That is one very nice picture of the Running Chicken Nebula, just enough FOV to get the lot, great focus and contrast, the Bok Globules stand out well also, keep em coming.

cheers......Jim