[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by alan meehan

Very good Mike 3 nights well spent by the looks,heaps of neb ,lovely
by the way is that a dead parrot or is it just resting.
AL

I agree Al that was the first thing I thought of, looking from inside a closed window at a Parrot who just flew into it

Originally Posted by h0ughy

glad you have a new Birdy mike - is its name Repro? LOL

If I do my usual thing...it will be a re-parrot

Originally Posted by telecasterguru

Not too shabby at all.

Thanks Frank

Originally Posted by Craig_L

Lovely shot Mike. Pity you don't have just a slightly wider field of view to get the tips of the wings. Love the detail and colour range.

Cheers Craig, after seeing the cloud predictions pre New Year...I actually thought of doing a mozaic...for a fleeting moment anyway ..the trunkated view makes it look more like a Parrot becasue the full extension of the spread wings isn't captured

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Very nice Mike. You have that Ha blending down to a fine art.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve it is certainly a bit of alchemy that's for sure, ask me to write my recipe down and I don't think I could do it very easily

Originally Posted by richardo

Hey Mike, this is a pretty darn nice image.
Love the golden stars through out... maybe the high lights across the nebula appear a little pink for my taste, buuuutt... it's not displeasing at all.

50% of original.... wow... nice to zoom into and out on my 24".

If you don't have two monitors side by side, I just can't get my head around how you can process these huge images!

Great to see all these NEW images coming out... you must just go into nocturnal mode when out at your dark site!!

All the best
Rich

Thanks Rich, yes Mr Pastel wouldn't like a Mr M&M's ...(Marcus has had a bad influence on me you see...)

The full size image holds up pretty well but due to its size it doesn't make for easy viewing on the average moniter (not to mention teh band width necessary for a reasonable download time) so I seldom post full size nebula images, rather doing crops instead if there are interesting sections like the head of the seagul. Galaxy cluster images are a different story though, each galaxy is a seperate unit by itself so it's fun panning around and having a look and searching for the distant ones.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Well I'd have to say you've surpassed yourself on that one

Thanks Trevor

Originally Posted by tornado33

Great stuff Mike, thats the deepest Seagull Neb Ive seen. Theres more then just a hint of blue nebula around the neck of the gull as well as around the head area.
That dark chunk taken out of the upper right hand wing is interesting too, with stars embedded in refelection nebulae within.
Scott

Thanks Scotty, deepishness (is that a word ) was my intention.
Yes the right hand wing ridge reminds me a little of that in NGC 6188, I haven't seen it like this in other Seagull images really..?

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Magical image there Mike! Top shot. Colour's spot on IMO. Love the hints of refl neb. Like I've said before, I reckon most emission nebs have some reflection components in them that are worth teasing out!! Lovely!

Cheers, Marcus

PS: I won't even complain about there being no full res version.

Ah, glad you liked it Marcus, I thought you might, your saturation-a-philic habits are clearly rubbing off

The full frame image holds up very well but it is just too big to enable full enjoyment without shrinking it down on your screen so it's kinda back to square one then..