[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by sjastro

Fantastic image Jase.

Good to see something off the beaten track.

Steven

Cheers Steven. A change of scenery never hurts. Pleased you liked it.

Originally Posted by seeker372011

fantastic shot of an object I had never heard of before.

appears to be worth every bit of the effort that went into producing it I might add

Narayan

Thanks for checking out the image Narayan. The image blog may sound like quite some work went into it, but in reality it wasn't too much. The work would have been ten-fold if the data had major gradients. Obviously, it helps to acquire the data from dark skies as has been done here to minimise them. However, even from the darkest of skies you'll still have gradients, be it subtle. Its just something to learn to deal with. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Hagar

Magnificent Jase. Unheard of by me. The extent of work you go to, to achieve an image like this just leaves me in awe.
Always a pleasure to read your dialogue and view your images.

Cheers Doug. Mosaics are all in the planning. I just sit around during the data acquisition as frame centering, focusing etc is automated. Sometimes I get out the binos and have a squiz around to fill in time. I'm so not a visual astronomer (clearly given the only eye piece I own is an illuminated reticle used for guiding should the CCD camera fail me!). Something I learnt during this process is that I need to fine tune my operations in PS. At one point, the PSD file reached over 3.2Gb in size due to the different layers and masks. Rather ridiculous. I think breaking the mosaic up further would assist. Anyway, pleased you liked it. Thanks for your comments.

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

A pleasure to browse around Jase. Everything is blended beautifully. A rarely imaged region by all accounts. Thanks for posting

Thanks Barb and David. The full res makes a nice print. Other than the dust, its a rather featureless area. Still quite interesting however. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Alchemy

what can i say, only good stuff, its also nice seeing you shoot something thats not uber FL and with your own gear. keep the old hand in so the scope dont rust over.

browsed your website recently, stuff there i hadnt seen here, although i did take a month or two off so might have missed them. will find the orion mosaic usefull once it returns, gives me ideas for future targets.

Cheers Clive. Still have the long FL bug, using my own rig just breaks up the monotony providing an alternate challenge. Processing wide field data is different to that of heavily oversampled data. Still have a couple of Lightbuckets images yet to process. Time has been my biggest enemy of late, not data - got plenty of that. Yes, a couple of images on the site which I haven't posted here. I usually post most of the work, but not all. Tear drop nebula is a classic example. Crap data due to reflections, but given no-one has imaged it at 4.8m FL and probably never will given its a tough target with its proximity to bright stars, I thought I'd upload it being rather unique. Given its an image that I would consider as "crap", I don't draw attention to it. Interestingly, its receives quite a few web hits. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to check it out and comment.

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Thanks All.