New Antares Region with 70mm Lens

[RB]

Had the opportunity to have another go at the Antares region last week using a 70 mm lens.
I stacked 8 (800 ISO) and 12 (1600 ISO) at 75 sec each giving a total exposure time of 25 min. All imaging was done in RAW mode.

Processing done in IP and Levels and Curves in PS. I only used in Camera Noise reduction and Flats were applied.

I can upload a Hi-Res version if anyone requests it, to my web space but atm I'm limited. Let me know though, it's no prob.

Hope you enjoy.
As always I look forward to any comments, suggestions, ways to improve, please feel free.

Cheers

[h0ughy]

Thats awesome Andrew! i am really impressed (doesn't take much, any ability bettter than mine is easily recognised)

[Striker]

Great work Andrew...I can see every color in the rainbow.

Gee that Tak isn't get used much....you know it has an expiry date sticker on the side.....lol

[Dennis]

That's a great image of a lovely region - very impressive indeed. Nicely captured and processed - well done!

Cheers

Dennis

[RB]

:lol: @ Striker

I was using the TAK, I should have mentioned it, but wasn't going thru the scope, the camera was piggybacked on the scope.
I was only roughly polar aligned, not drift aligned.

BTW I took the expiry stiker off Tony. ;)

Thanks for your nice comments guys. :)

[davidpretorius]

very very nice.

i have been testing my collimation and seeing lately wo see if i can split antares and it is amazing to think that there is all this extra detail there.

i love the rift running down the middle

[Lester]

Lovely colour variation.

Please inform me on the lens type and f ratio, cause it cirtainly performs well.

[RB]

The lens was a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 with a 72mm Lumicon minus violet filter on a stepdown ring, lens was set at 70mm @ f/2.8.

[Itchy]

Andrew,
A very nice image of a beautiful area of the sky. Not bad for a zoom lens.

I am curious about the differing ISO's though. To me calibration would be overly troublesome if all you did was average combine the images. The dynamic range is not so great in this area to warrent masking is it?

Anyhow, well done.

Cheers

[ving]

very colourful :)
thnx :)

[Octane]

Andrew,

Very, very, beautiful.

As Tony said, I, too, can see all the colours of the rainbow.

This is one of the most spectacular portions of the night sky.

Well done!

Regards,
Humayun

[acropolite]

Spectacular Andrew, well done :thumbsup:

[asimov]

Wow,:eyepop: very nice shooting barbecue boy!!:thumbsup:

[seeker372011]

top image of one of the most visually interesting regions:thumbsup:

[RB]

I had taken two sets of images just in case I didn't get it right, one was 800 ISO and the other set was 1600 ISO. In the end I combined all of them Tony, but I think you're right this region does not have that big a range, like say M42, to need that.

Thanks for your comments guys, really means a lot to me, glad you liked the image.

Hey Asi now I'm cooking with gas ah? :lol:

Cheers

[beren]

Beautiful image thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[RB]

Since the weather hasn't been co-operating, I took Bert's advice and reprocessed some old files.
I've rotated the Antares Region frame and did some adjustments to levels and curves.
Kinda like it better.

:)

[jjjnettie]

Superb!

[tornado33]

The colours are great.
Scott

[JimmyH155]

Beautiful. How do you stack images from a camera? Presume it was SLR.

[RB]

G'day Jimmy,

Welcome to the forum.

You can do it a number of ways. Using layers in Photoshop (it's a bit tedious), or use Images Plus to stack. Registax can do it.
My favourite is Registar, which is superb in that it can stack all different types of images even if they are different sizes.

The camera is a Digital SLR (Canon 20Da).

:)

[Octane]

<insert my finest 20x60 sec median combined master dark frame>
<insert my finest 20x1/4000 sec median combined master bias frame>

:P

Regards,
Humayun

[h0ughy]

very nice reprocess Andrew

[xelasnave]

Very nice result. I have seen a few of this area and yours is right up there, top work
alex