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Carl
12-08-2012, 01:53 AM
Located in the constellation of Sagittarius

I always think of the Ray Bradbury book Day of the Triffids

Taken from my home in Nth East Vic during July. Skies were pretty awful at my place that month, but it sure beats sitting inside watching TV.

Details:
34 x 5min @ 1600iso
Scope: ED120
Camera: canon 500d
Processing: Nebulosity3 and PhotoshopCS5

Image dramatically reduced to upload.

Regards
Carl
CapturingTheNight
12-08-2012, 08:09 AM
Another great image Carl :thumbsup: I just noticed the time that you uploaded these. I take it you also had spectacular sky conditions down there as well. What target can I expect to be wowed by at a future ASAW meeting?
multiweb
12-08-2012, 09:05 AM
Another one! You're on a roll. Very nice again. :thumbsup:
alpal
12-08-2012, 10:12 AM
The blue reflection nebula has come out well.
Another fine photo.
troypiggo
12-08-2012, 12:13 PM
What I'm noticing in all of these images you're posting is a wonderfully flat field of stars. What flattener are you using? And your guiding seems to be very good, too! Great stuff!
RickS
12-08-2012, 01:01 PM
Nice image, Carl, but it was John Wyndham who wrote Day of the Triffids :)
Ross G
12-08-2012, 05:10 PM
Hi Carl,

That is a beautiful photo of the Trifid Nebula.

Great colours and detail.

A very nice composition.

Ross.
DavidU
12-08-2012, 06:04 PM
Well done Carl. Nice work with the colours.:thumbsup:
Carl
12-08-2012, 08:13 PM
I've always been hopeless with Authors names. Great book though, terrible TV version

regards
Carl
Carl
12-08-2012, 08:15 PM
Hi Greg
thanks for the post. I'm trying to image M8, the Lagoon Nebula but focusing over the last 3 nights has been hopeless.

Catch up soon
Carl
David Fitz-Henr
12-08-2012, 08:25 PM
Great image Carl! Great colours, and with a DSLR as well - is it modded for Ha?
Rigel003
12-08-2012, 10:04 PM
Excellent image, Carl. Especially so with an SLR and only 120mm of aperture. Nice tight stars with plenty of colour variation and good detail in the nebula.
cventer
13-08-2012, 11:59 PM
Great Job. Very nice work on processing and color saturation.
Carl
16-08-2012, 05:31 PM
Hi Troy
Sorry for the delay getting back, lots on at the moment.
I'm using the Hotech 2" field flattener. Got for $200 at OPT in the US

Regards
Carl