[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Looks good Ray. I have started this very same patch about 5 times in the past three years. I got some half reasonable data on it a couple of years go but it was not enough. I might devote about 50 hours to it in the next year to capture it the way I have always wanted.

Interestingly I found with 30 minutes subs in Ha it still needed a lot of integration to control the background noise. I think one attempt I had 7 hours of data and it still had that speckled look to the background. A real challenge and I look forward to your completed results.

thanks Paul. I suspect that the speckle is in fact stars - the longer I integrated, the more it resolved into points - it never looked like smoothing out, so I resisted the urge to use a heavy noise filter.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Interesting region Ray, good data & looking forward to the added RGB

Thanks Bob.

Originally Posted by RickS

A very interesting image, Ray, and the short narrowband subs are another confirmation of your calculations. Glad you managed to get some imaging time.

Thanks Rick - sure was frustrating to see the moon free period slip by with no imaging. I would have liked longer subs, but lost the first 15 minute one due to a gust of wind, so I chickened out.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Great work-it has a 3-D look to it.

Thanks Laurie. Tried to keep processing to a minimum to retain as much of the appearance as possible

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Outstanding Ray!!!

The resolution your getting your getting from your 8" is great!
It really is a treat to see these LMC nebs close up.
Look forward to mare.

Cheers,

Justin.

thanks very much Justin. Been a real battle to get the scope under control, but it now does OK when conditions are good. Isn't the LMC an interesting part of the sky

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Excellent Ray, an amazing area with so much going on, love it.

I have started on this area too, so far I only have 6 weeks worth of exposure but I am hoping for about 3 months if I can, I recon then it will look so real that it will jump out of the page and grab Fred by the gonads

Ok, poor humour....

Mike

Bugga - made me laugh out loud and the missus looked at me strange. Thanks Mike.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Exceptional shot Ray. Inspiring.

Thanks Marc and thanks for your help with the scope

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wow. Love it.

Its great to see so many super images of these great nebs int he LMC.

Greg.

Hi Greg. I had no idea there was so much detail visible in the LMC - what a fascinating region it is.

Regards Ray