[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Bon Appetite a fine selection but do agree with ElSid on the colour

Thanks Trev. ElSid is 100% right. Will do in time.

Originally Posted by Lester

Very nice Marc, and a few tweeks to make them outstanding.

Thanks Lester. More excuses for a repro. I like it!

Originally Posted by philiphart

nice work marc.. glad to see you got some time on the rho oph region.. i hope you think it was a good idea now :-)

Thanks Phil. Was a real treat to meet you and pick your brain. I always though imaging Rho was a good idea. Maybe it was Fred talking.

Originally Posted by philiphart

the rho region is also pretty tricky to process, from both a contrast and colour point of view. Your colours may not be far off, but accurate colour isn’t necessarily the best! When you get to your repro, I’d boost the contrast a bit as well.. the darkest dust lanes can be quite a bit darker than you have them currently. That’ll make it a bit more punchy.

Not wrong there. Mine's flat as (not in a good way ) Was my first go at it and not the last. I'm dumping M8 for Rho Ophiuchus now. It's official. Waiting eagerly to see your masterpiece of the whole area though. I'm getting those sunglasses ready.

Originally Posted by philiphart

Was great to meet the ‘real’ Marc at SPSP.. not surprisingly, your real personality is quite different to online.. (something about that french accent and attitude!).

Too kind mate. Agreed about the accent. That'll never go. Attitude? Did I try to strangle Fred?.. Again?...T'was dark. I can't remember.

Originally Posted by philiphart

You are clearly a very talented imager and have given me several good ideas to think about.

Right... you must have heard about my [patent pending] polar alignment method. That is confidential right?

Originally Posted by telecasterguru

Marc,

I like all the images especially the Spider.

Thanks for your help over the weekend and I will be posting some of my own images (from Saturday only unfortunately as you are aware) later on this week when I come to terms with CCD Stack. Actually I am finding CCD Stack really good as I work my way through it.

Frank

Thanks Frank. No worries was great chatting with you and checking your monster 10" astrograph. It's good to hear you went home with a lot of subs in your bag. CCDStack takes some getting use to but after a while it grows on you. It just works.

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

Good work Marc! I like them all!

Tom

You're way too kind Tom. Not 100% happy with them and I'll play again with the data to bring a bit more contrast and less red. I think each scope produces data that needs to be processed differently. The ED80 is a small aperture and I definitely need to work a harder to bring the light and colors back in the processing as it looks muted. I've been bad and lazy for too long only doing Ha with the hyperstar which is as simple as it gets to process.