[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by RobF

Really nice stuff Marc.
Love the golden colour of the milky way you have there

Thank you Rob.

Originally Posted by atalas

real funny Marc! hey,sensational work dude.

Thanks Louie.

Originally Posted by desler

Good stuff Marc! Swim around in there for ages!

Darren

Thanks Darren. Glad you liked it.

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Lovely result Marc!

Great Image scale. Almost can't recognise Swan and Eagle at that scale.

Nice colours. You have that rich gold colour in the Sagittarius Star cloud, not over-processed to make all the stars look white.

Well done.

Thanks Ken. Yeah at that image scale it's sometime hard to pick up the little details especially with the QHY8. The swan is still ok. The Eagle doesn't show any pillars. The 9 would pick this up though.

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Nice Pic. wasn't the weather Fab this year.

I still have another 4 more objects yet to be processed from that week, just over it at the moment.

Thanks Dave. Yeah the skies were terrific. I'm still going through a backlog of stuff myself. Nearly there.

Originally Posted by JohnG

Good one, Mark .

Like your results so far .

Cheers

Thanks John. Catch up soon in Nov.

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Wonderful wide field.

Thank you Paul.

Originally Posted by dj gravelrash

awesum--jealosy really is a curse lol

Thanks m8

Originally Posted by TrevorW

In all honesty a really nicely composed image with bundles of detail, the only thing I find distracting not only in this but other similar widefields is the diffraction spikes appearing on the stars due to the lens used, apart from that really well done.

Thanks Trev. Yep I don't really like them either but I have to stop the lens down a bit so no choice. Until I get better at it and find another way to do it with circular aperture rings. All part of the fun.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

That is a splendid field of the richest area in the sky with so many objects displayed, the small dark spot next to M24 star cloud caught my eye.

John.

Thanks John. Haven't manage to platesolve that one yet. Will check it out.

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Marc,

Another amazing photo.

I can't get enough of your colours and detail.


Thanks.

Ross.

Thanks Ross. Catch up soon.

Originally Posted by AstroAussie

Beautiful seamless mosaic! Well processed.
Lucas

Thank you Lucas.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

This is a very nice rendering of this area. What gear were you using Marc? Am I right in thinking something like a 14mm or so lens on a DSLR?

Thanks Paul. This is the same rig I use with all the shots I did at BSG including the barnard loop. It's a 100mm lens. SMC Pentax-M 100mm f1:2.8 stopped down to 5.6. I used a Baader fring killer in front of the lens and a Baader UV/IR filter at the back. It helps with star bloat and also color fringing. The camera was a QHY8 and the whole thing was guided through a GSO finder with a QHY5/G11. These are two panels of approx. 13.6 x 9.0 overlapped over the star cloud. Whole field South to North (left to right) would be about 26.5 x 9.0 degrees.

Originally Posted by iceman

Beautiful result Marc, I really liked that.

Thanks for the comments Mike.