Angles and Demons

[dvj]

Here's a little Ha panorama through southern Scorp I call, "Angles and Demons"

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[Peter.M]

Thats a cracker! I love the shear size of this.

[RickS]

Very nice, John!

[FlashDrive]

WOW ... !!! :thumbsup: .. That's great ... so expansive :thumbsup:

Flash :hi:

[brian nordstrom]

:thumbsup: Oh my , thats so good .
Brian.

[dvj]

Thank you everyone. There is more work to do on this image. 8bit .jpg does not come close to the depth of the orignal nor the tonality.

This is 3 segmements done with the Proline 16803 and FSQ.
9 x 2400s each segment from Coonabarabran.

j

[Martin Pugh]

Great image John, with your tell-tale Ha processing.

One comment though:

Surely you mean 'Angels and Demons'?

cheers
Martin

[gregbradley]

Fantastic John.

That is the Dark Tower in the middle near the top right?

There is so much Ha stuff around its amazing.

Greg.

[dvj]

I absolutly hate reposts of images, but I pulled the back point down a bit to get what I orignally wanted.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5118/masterssgedited.jpg


Yes Martin. I'm glad my imaging is better than my spelling. ;-)

j

[atalas]

Excellent John! love the contrast....wish I got to see the first post of this image,but I would suspect that you weren't satisfied with the contrast.

This version to me is well, near perfect.....wish you were doing color too.

[multiweb]

Great deep widefield. Very extended area. :thumbsup:

[mithrandir]

Greg, given some coords (see for example the notes on Don Goldman's image http://www.astrodonimaging.com/gallery/display.cfm?imgID=227) the Dark Tower is close to the centre at the top. A plate solved image cropped to the relevant part attached.

[dvj]

Hi Andrew,

Which plate solve software did you use?

jg

[Ross G]

An amazing widefield photo John.

Incredible detail and contrasts.


Ross.

[mithrandir]

I did it in 2 stages John. live.astrometry.net (http://live.astrometry.net/status.php?job=alpha-201206-67196911) solved it quickly but doesn't give the same depth of object markings that Unimap (http://larryo.org/astronomy/software/unimap/index.html) does. I took the centre and FOV from astrometry.net and told Unimap to use that as a hint. Once it solved I saved the image with grid and objects labelled. Then GIMPed the image to a size I could upload to IIS.

Note: "live" is closed to new users, they have to use "nova" and I don't think it works as well.

[dvj]

Hi Andrew and thanks for this. I've been able to acess astrometry.net and run a plot on my RCW 114. Seems to work, but it missed one of the globulars in the image. I'll give Unimap a shot.

jg