[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by Gem

Beautiful!

Thank you Grant

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Rolf,

A beautiful close up.

Ross.

Thanks Ross, I was happy to see it just fitting into the FOV like this.

Originally Posted by RickS

A lovely, deep image, Rolf, with heaps of detail! I really enjoyed that!

Thank a lot Rick This one is quite bright so it might be interesting to even try with something like a 2x powermate some day.

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's a really cool shot Rolf. With your image scale you should give it a go in NB. I reckon it'd be hubblesque.

Thank you Marc, yes I'm very happy with the native image scale. It gives me some good detail still within a reasonable time. Don't have any NB filters though, I'm still thinking of what to put in the last 4 empty slots in the filter wheel, IR would be interesting too

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

The 50% size image looks great Rolf, nice crisp look with good accurate colour balance and I love the saturation! Some good resolution there too and that little jet is nicely showcased too.

The large version shows up the processing and noise a bit and some odd star shapes but never the less, to me it is certainly a great view especially if you shrink thsi big version to about 50% in your browser

You must look back at your web cam days with a little grin?

Mike

Thanks very much Mike, yes the outer regions have a bit of noise. Next year I'll probably add to it, so that should take care of that
The star shapes near the edges are probably due to collimation issues, or maybe even an imperfect mirror. I haven't been able to get rid of it completely. I just don't know how good/bad my no-name mirror really is, but I have a new one on order so time will tell.
Yes, a broad smile more than a little grin for sure But still there's no doubt that all my tweaking and pushing the webcam to its limits has earned me valuable experience - I'm using much the same techniques when processing these new images.

Originally Posted by DavidU

You nailed that !

Thanks for looking David, glad you liked it

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very very sharp and lots of resolution there.

An excellent image Rolf. Gee the standard is getting very high in this forum.

Greg.

Thanks for your kind words Greg I was quite satisfied with the resolution too.
I could have attached one of my earlier pathetic attempts with the webcam - but I'll spare you that!

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nicely done Rolf. A very pleasing view. I think those hills to the west of Auckland must be a pretty reasonable site.

Cheers

Steve

Thank you Steve, yes it's a very good site I think. I live on the side of a hill and so would have liked a view of the other half of the sky too, but apart from that I'm very satisfied with the location.

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Nice colours and detail!

Thank you Paul, glad you liked it

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Hi Rolf,

Beautiful colours in the nebula and stars, nice and sharp too!

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin I was surprised by how well the colours came out, given the comparatively short amount of RGB time.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

I agree with Mike. Great colour saturation though.

Thanks Paul. I pushed the saturation quite a bit here but I think it worked ok.

Originally Posted by atalas

Love the colors!very nice high res work Sky.

Thank you Louie, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Originally Posted by midnight

Very nice star colours Rolf and M20 is presented very nicely.

Darrin...

Thanks Darrin, I'm glad you noticed the star colours, it's something I always try to bring out in my images.