[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by iceman

No access to the skies!? Argh! Surely that's a requirement when moving to a new house?

What will you do? Rent some time on a scope?

Beautiful image, Mike. The conditions have been fantastic the last few nights. The dark globules smacked near the little star cluster are brilliant.

Oh me o my...can't believe I agreed to this house - has lovely views over Kotara and out to Stockton beach though

Rent-a-scope??? Proably won't be able to enter next years SPSP AIC then

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Nice one Mike, certainly a sharp focus!! the dark globs really do stand out as too the pizza delivery to the ISS, LOL.

Thanks mate, you could have found out something really bad about the house for me couldn't you?? ...yeeeh...that's it! it's your fault!

Mike
I hate Houghy

Originally Posted by RB

LOL they're not dark globs, that's sensor dust on the FLI......

Gorgeous image Mike, love the detail and colour.

That problem was rectified, the camera is an absolute purler! operating at -35C all year round with 1 sec downloads of 11K pixels and very low noise, heck I am still using the same darks (all 4 of them) I took back in August and the smoothness is great.

Cheers

Mike

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! Fantastic image! Love the black stuff next to the small cluster.

You said you got some clear skies in Newcastle? Lucky you. I was out last night in Liverpool until 10:30pm, all balanced, polar aligned, tracking through a light haze but more and more clouds rolled in from the south so I packed up

Mate I sympathise with ya! One good thing about living in a place where there is no sky access I guess?....no delema will I won't I? when it comes to deciding on an evenings imaging = simple answer every time "can't" ..........

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Mike,

You are in a different league.

Very cool.

Cheers
Peter

Well not sure what that means exactly Peter... but I am thinking you like the result..?

Thanks

Mike

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

You're the man Mike - superb shot!

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus, glad you enjoyed it

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Very smoooooth and sharp Mike, excellent, sort of has a 3d effect.

I was very happy with the outcome on this one and it went together so easily and effortlessly. The key is good clean data. Taking the colour frames while crossing the meridian (darkest sky for this object) helped here by reducing the gradient problems and it was a particularly transparent night with good seeing. I think good acurate flats helped too, I took the flats imedeately after each filter too so they were perfectly matching.

Originally Posted by EzyStyles

awesome shot mike!! i like the globs alot of details and so crsip.

Yes a real feature of this object, cheers

Originally Posted by tornado33

Gee those globules really do stand out. What is amazing is that funny triangular part in the middle of the HA shot, those striations are unusual.
I note youre not binning the RGB 2x2, guess theres no need to by the look of it
How long are the subs you use?

So you cannot access any part of the sky from the new place? Mines fairly limited, ok southern access from backyard from dec -75 to-10, then I have to move to in front of the garage to get to dec +30. Further north I have to squeeze netween shrubs on the front lawn for a very limited 30 wide window with powerlines in the view.

You might have to start imaging from the Newcastle Astronomical Societies Shortland site near 360 degree down to Horizon views, and not too light polluted for a near suburban site.
Scott

No I don't bin the colour, probably should to get more signal but I like to have to do as litttle as possible when processing I have been doing 10min subs in recent efforts...mostly becasue then I can just keep using the same four dark frames I have been using for ages I am inherently lazy

No sadly I have littel sky visible around the house. So where is the Shortland site then? Do memebrs have permanent setups there?

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Cant believe the DETAIL......... not much to say im speechless

Yes I was quite happy with the detail, the seeing was particularly good for Newcastle (about FWHM of 2") and the superb tracking of the NJP mount helps too - I was getting average guide errors of less than 0.3" all night - the bulls eye guide star plot pattern in Astroart had the star centroid ploting out a nice tight clump in the central 1/3 of the 1 pixel radius ring!

Originally Posted by spearo

Woah Mike!
You sure know how to raise the bar for the rest of us!
Amazing
frank

Glad you like it Frank but I'm not trying to one-up anyone, I just love imaging and since I haven't been able to do much lately this result was rewarding

Originally Posted by acropolite

Mike, your chicken is truly inspirational. I can't recall seeing a more interesting deep space image.

That's great! Yes it is a very interesting area but framing is important too, I wanted Lambda Centauri in the image but wasn't sure how the light ring aberations I get with the AP field flattener would be on such a bright star. It turned out that they weren't too bad and the bright star sets off the dramatic scene quite well I recon..? The luminance frame is a combination of the red data and the Halpha data and this is the most detailed of the data so the final colour image retains much of that detail. The detail in the Halpha only shot is testament to the narrow band width, the seeing, the exceptional optics and great tracking I had at my disposal, I was and am very lucky

Originally Posted by sheeny

It's all WOW!

Al.

Wow thanks

Originally Posted by Hagar

Great image Mike. The detail is magnificent. Focus is spot on.
A real work of art. And yes I like tha satalite trails too. They are there, why not show them.

Great stuff. Love it.

The man made space junk trails remind me of the AAT shots by David malin from the 80's there were often satelite trails in them too