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Originally Posted by kosborn
Great image Mike, and good to see that the conditions at Eagleview are delivering!
I notice that Orroral Valley (my favourite dark site) is finally open this weekend after years of closure from bushfire and floods. While not as good as your location, it is Bortle 2 so, so I'm itching to get back in there. I'm planning a session next new moon. Maybe an unofficial star party for anyone in and around Canberra that might be interested...?
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Cheers Kev, oh yeah Eagleview is delivering alright, amazing spot to visually observe too, the transparency and contrast is brilliant, everything is just so high fidelity and contrasty in the eyepiece. Friday night, my mate and I were using the 18" F4.1 Dob and M17 and M20 both blew our mind, with loud oohs and aaahs from two seasoned observers. Both objects looked like B&W Ha CCD images! but with a hint of colour - both subtle green and warm rose, ..the Swan particularly had that solid, meaty look to the nebulousity, with incredible detail and its characteristic striations seen in images, almost like it had been painted with a spatula, about the best I have see both objects (after 40 years of visual astronomy)...also nabbed the two little Mag 16 galaxies next to M83 too, first time for both of us..and needless to say, M83 itself turned it on too, with all the double arm barred spiral structure and many of the HII/OB association knots you see in images, on display, even without averted vision..incredible
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Originally Posted by Dave882
That’s such an intriguing target Mike. It’s kinda surreal to be able to spectate on such a cosmic calamity. Beautifully captured and processed- and yes love to see you taking advantage of that incredible seeing up there with a finer image scale…but hey…the detail you’re extracting is already wonderful
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Thanks a lot Dave, its very fun
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Originally Posted by alpal
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Cheers big Al, yeah would love a 32" corrected cassegrain up here!
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Originally Posted by Startrek
Mike,
What more can I say but a spectacular image capturing the true essence of deep space astrophotography.
An image where most of us mere mortals dream about
Keep ‘em coming from your nest up on top of the world
Well done !!!
Cheers
Martin
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Will do Martone
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Certainly a marked difference in the two imaging attempts. Good seeing always makes these little suckers really pop. There are so many background galaxies too, which makes the field of view interesting.
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I agree, I love seeing lots of faint fuzzies in the background
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Altitude will always improve seeing and good seeing will always improve resolution. It's a nice result Mike. I agree you need a bit more image scale though. |
That's what I always thought too but to finally be able to confirm it to myself, quantitatively, with examples, is very satisfying...and even a little (ok a lot) relieving
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Originally Posted by markas
Very nice image, Mike
Remarkable detail on this relatively distant pair. You are certainly demonstrating the importance of good seeing at your new site.
Mark
PS: As a matter of interest, have you tried a little judicious BlurEx on this? |
Cheers Mark
No, don't have PixInsite so no hocus pocus Blur Ex I am afraid
. I use the decon filter in Astroart only, the poor mans, non HST trained, ie lots of work to clean up, version
Mike