[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by petershah

another fine image there Mike...you better slow down or there will be nothing left to image at this rate ;-)

Thanks Peter, slow down?? maaate I have been snapping the heavens for over 30 years now and there is an entire Universe out there to capture ...statistically I only have about 30 more years left

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Mike.

It is almost inconceivable we are imaging such distant objects from basically our backyard.

Greg.

I think the profoundness is a bit lost on some, worrying about perfect processing, perfect star images, how much mega data has been collected or how your work is received around the World etc is not really the point, we need to look at our data more, I mean reeeally look and soak up what it has captured and what it is showing....

Originally Posted by alpal

Nice work Mike.
The Hubble comparison shows just how powerful the Hubble is.
I wish they would have made a whole fleet of Hubble telescopes
instead of just the one that will crash into the ocean in a few years.

Still - it's amazing that you could pick up those faint galaxies at all.

Yep no argument how amazing the Hubble scope is, can't compete on the depth and resolution table, that's for sure!... but it's images are a great way of searching and conformation of what our little optical thimbles have managed to collect under our mortal murky skies

Originally Posted by LightningNZ

Wow, geez Mike that's pretty awesome. Was this taken from Murrumbateman? ~Mag 23 is nuts. I've gotta get my kit mobile so I can escape Belconnen.

Something else that amazes me is that you used no darks on this! That H694 seems like a hell of a good chip.

Cheers,
Cam

Hi Cam, I'm in Wallaroo, kinda on the way to Murrumbateman. Yes darks are basically unnecessary with this awesome little camera, I just dither my light frames and then median compine in pre processing - easy I wasn't using flats until now either but my 1.25" filters do vignette even this small chip slightly at the fast F3.8 of this scope...so I have some slightly bigger 36mm filters on their way which will hopefully remove the remaining vignetting

Originally Posted by RickS

Another wonderful galaxy image, Mike! I hope you'll leave a couple for me

How much do you tweak the colour? My galaxies mostly lean towards a cyan colour with a little red/magenta in the Ha areas. I have tried a variety of colour calibration methods but they don't seem to make a lot of difference.

Cheers,
Rick.

He he , don't worry Rick there are plenty of galaxies out there for you..oh, let's see..?, probably of the order of a few hundred million within your grasp Colour?...mate I just wing it, my minds eye has a picture in it and I process to try and match that, like us all, my minds eye is influenced by several factors including previous views of the galaxy and what looks right based on my understanding of galaxy colours

Mike

Originally Posted by astronobob

so its this type of galaxy's for greener grass Mike, we've had enough rain for awhile with out adding sprinklers matee
Thats a terrible ly good image Mike, quite a 'spinout' result and done well to resolve the dark arms in that smaller galaxy 'low-right' too

Cheers Bob, I didn't want to water the image down and my head was spinning during the processing flow for this one but in the end I flooded it with colour... which isn't everyone's pitcher

Mike

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Wondered if this might be next, this galaxy is kind of perfect - processed very nicely. Always an eyeopener what we can get v professional.

John.

I love this time of year, so many amazing looking galaxies in our southern skies to chose from. Would love to know where I could find out what and how bright those distant galaxies are?

Mike

Originally Posted by jase

'bout time you got serious and took some flats. Enjoyed the full frame Mike. A very cool galaxy pairing.

Bah Flats!...someone should blow flats up Richard Crisp will kill me but I have some bigger filters on the way to remove the vignetting...let's see

Originally Posted by iceman

Lovely views Mr Sidonio. Quite a neat galaxy.

Cheers Mike

Originally Posted by Dennis

Such a pretty galaxy indeed Mike, excellent work as usual.

Love you presentations and entertaining, yet informative, narrative.

Cheers

Dennis

Glad you enjoyed the view big D , there is so much more to objects than just how perfectly (or not) processed they are..there is processing to reveal hidden identities as well