[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Sharp, detailed and smooth tones.

A great looking monochrome photo Ray.

Ross.

thanks very much Ross.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very cool, Ray! The seeing gods have been kind for a change

It doesn't happen too often. I suspect that the seeing is normally governed by a rather more malevolent force than the gods.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Hi, Ray,

Possibly the best Fickle Finger I've ever seen. Normally there's that pesky star on the knuckle of the upraised finger that burns out and distorts the finger, but you have it razor sharp and in digital totality. The same applies for the rest of the image. I love it.

Best, Mike

thanks Mike. I hadn't taken much notice of that aspect of the image - thanks for pointing it out. Seems like there is just no substitute for good seeing - deconvolution can partially restore an image, but a feature like the finger would not be recoverable.

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's really cool Ray. That's the level of details I'm trying to get.

thanks Marc. I would love to get this sort of detail more often - but it doesn't happen.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A wonderfully sharp image Ray. That does have a lot of detail.

Great work.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. I was a bit unsure if the detail was real - looking at Hubble images it seems that it is (nothing even remotely like Hubble of course, but the main features are the same, which is comforting)

Originally Posted by SpaceNoob

Very sharp and a whole heap of fine detail! There be boks!

I was surprised at the number of Boks visible within this region when I captured a few subs recently, they're everywhere! Actually, there's just a lot going on everywhere through that part of the sky. There's some cool shockwaves / ripples too (whatever they're called).

Yes, there are blobs and arcs and shock fronts all over the place. I was really pleased to be able to just see the two major jets on the mystic mountain as well.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Its a cool area Ray. The sharpening looks good to me and yes SA has had some nice seeing of late. I should really be out planetary imaging. One night last week I was getting FWHM values on the RC at 1.16 for a couple of subs. Having seen your image I went and gave mine a little bit of a tweak on the sharpening. Are you going to do colour? Mystic Mountain looks great.

thanks very much Paul. there have been some good patches of seeing, but the clouds have stuffed it up during the moon free periods - very frustrating. During this session, the short period half flux radius reported by Nebulosity was under 1 pixel some of the time, which translates to under 1.8 arc sec FWHM. The FWHM measured on some of the subs was well under 2 arc sec including guiding errors and sampling spread. The underlying seeing must have been under 1.5 arcsec - never seen anything better.
I intend to do some colour.

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Really impressive Ray. That tack sharp detail is mindblowing.
Geoff

Thanks Geoff. it was fascinating to see the detail emerge with a little bit of sharpening - one of those "crikey, have a look at this" moments that are the icing on the cake in this hobby.

Originally Posted by Regulus

That's a very, very nice photo to look at Ray.
Very impressive all that detail.
Cheers - Trevor

Thanks very much Trevor.

regards Ray