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stevous67
22-05-2012, 09:50 PM
Hi guys,

Just returned from a great couple days away at the ASV dark Sky site - it was great, albeit being a little chilly down to -1.5c [not use to that].

Captured numerous objects, the first processed being M8. Done with HaRGB I used the colour channels from the FSQ+QHY9 [from a wide field of the area, RGB 5min subs x4 each channel, Bin 2x2], and the Ha from the CDK+STL-11000 [160mins, with 20min subs, Bin 1x1].

So, here is the full frame at 57% size [about 2mb]:

M8 (http://www.mpas.asn.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1972&g2_serialNumber=3)

I had troubles matching the colour channel’s star sizes to the Ha [tried PS minimum filter with some luck], so they are showing some dark rings which are not from any deconvolution, just the stars from the colour layer being larger than the Ha stars [which is normal I suppose].

:thanx: for looking,


Steve

Moon
22-05-2012, 09:55 PM
:eyepop:

multiweb
22-05-2012, 10:38 PM
Ha! That's awesome Steve. World class mate.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

LightningNZ
22-05-2012, 11:03 PM
Oh... that's pretty special! :D Very nice work sir, very nice.

Cheers,
Cam

Nico13
22-05-2012, 11:18 PM
Hey Steve you gotta be happy with that, looks pretty special. :thumbsup:

alistairsam
22-05-2012, 11:21 PM
Holy &^%$, that is really cool. What was the FL?

alpal
23-05-2012, 12:01 AM
That's a top photo Steve.
The stars are nice & sharp.
You must have had top seeing.