[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

Inspirational Jase that is impressive.
alex

Thanks Alex. Pleased you like it.

Originally Posted by atalas

Hi Jase

No point in talking about the stellar profiles cause you've covered all your issues anyway dude !

It's still a wonderful image well composed and the detail is very good and I absolutely love the dust !!

Cheers Louie. Nah, stellar profiles are still important. "Crunchy" stars aren't appealing. The IFN does add an element to the scene.

Originally Posted by RB

Mate ! I'm just gobsmacked at this image, it's 'simply' an unbelievable 'scene', brought to 'life' by your imaging expertise and wonderful equipment available at Lightbuckets.
Thanks for sharing not only the image but also the background info and the techniques you used.

Cheers mate.

Thanks RB. This image certainly tested my sanity. Came out well in the end. The Lightbucket team is here at AIC so good to catch up. Great guys. Hope the background info on processing was of use or at least gave an insight into what went on.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

who spilt the coffee on the negative Jase? well i liked Mr sidonio's C4 - this is just as special with the cosmic dust!

Cheers Houghy. Sidonio's C4 is still one of my favs, but this region needs more attention from others to do it justice.

Originally Posted by Kevnool

inspirational stuff...cheers Kev.

Thanks Kev!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

This is indeed a very interesting and often overlooked region of our south pole area. I like your handling of the subject, particularly given the less than perfect conditions, you did have a pretty special rig though . On an image processing front and only a minor observation, it does look slightly too smoothed to me and soft but I know you like'em this way and you know how I stand on that "noisey" issue plus I know your conditions were less than optimal too, still looks great.

It was an image of this area by Jim Rifle that caused me to seriously look at investing in one of those amazing Centurion 18 scopes a couple of years ago but I decided it was too expensive and went with the more affordable ASA N12..?...

You probably perused it in your image history study on this region but here is Jim Rifles shot of the same region:

http://astroworks.com/gallery/ST2000GAL/ic4633.html

Not quite as good as yours or Jims version but I imaged the same region a couple of years ago too with a little 80ED and my trusty little SXVH9:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...74684/original

and (somewhat poorly) with a 135mm camera lens:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...16974/original

Nice work Jase

Mike

Thanks Mike. Yes, I check out Jim's version in the planning. I spent quite some time determining the FOV/framing of this target. Excellent work with the 135mm lens. I've covered a similar FOV with the FSQ, but its a two frame mosaic - which needs much more data before I can take the image to the next level. Yes, a little too smooth for your liking - I can understand that. Its on the border line for me too, but found it difficult to handle the mottling hence the smoothness. Thanks again for your comments.

Originally Posted by Octane

Jase,

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

I had a look at the pricing on Lightbuckets. My goodness, for a /decent/ image, you're up for close to a thousand dollars. Insane.

Regards,
Humayun

Cheers Humayun. It can get expensive, but you need to be smart. Full moon means discounts - so I nail as much Ha data as I can over these periods. Pleased you like the image.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Don't know Jase....the choice of telescope may have been a bit dodgy...
(damm those Pingelly skies)

Nicely processed just the same

Thanks Peter. Yes, a wide field scope would suit the scene, alas no resolution on IC4633 so its a trade off.

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Thanks again to those how made comment. Much appreciated.