13 hours on the horsehead

Stevec35 (Steve) · #1 02-01-2013, 10:21 AM

Hi to all

Given that the moon was full on my last turn with the Arizona telescope I decided to go deeper on the horsehead. This is a total of 13 hours exposure which is more than you need I think as I don't think the result is twice as good as my previous 6.5 hours.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/h...aknewt_QSI.htm

niharika · #2 02-01-2013, 10:29 AM

Stunning! Inspires me to redo my processing to see if I can come close to this.

allan gould · #3 02-01-2013, 10:44 AM

An extraordinary image that shows so much detail.

Paul Haese · #4 02-01-2013, 01:16 PM

Nice and deep Steve. I like the detail in the rear curtain.

LewisM · #5 02-01-2013, 01:25 PM

HARK!!!!!!!!!! OK, not what I said, but you get the idea!

Fingers crossed,tonight MAY be cloud free in SEQ.

atalas · #6 02-01-2013, 02:37 PM

That's some great work Steve! great depth,detail in HH is wonderful and the curtain awesome like a backdrop! love to see you get color for this.

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #7 02-01-2013, 02:45 PM

One Word .....WOW ..!!

Flash ..!!

RickS (Rick) · #8 02-01-2013, 02:53 PM

Very nice, Steve!

With double the exposure you'll only get something SQRT(2) times better than your original 6.5 hours

Stevec35 (Steve) · #9 02-01-2013, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Steve!

With double the exposure you'll only get something SQRT(2) times better than your original 6.5 hours

Thanks Rick. Yeah - I know. I guess I was just highlighting the law of diminishing returns.

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Originally Posted by FlashDrive

One Word .....WOW ..!!

Flash ..!!

Thanks Flash

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Originally Posted by atalas

That's some great work Steve! great depth,detail in HH is wonderful and the curtain awesome like a backdrop! love to see you get color for this.

Thanks Louie. I already have most of the reds and plan to get some of the rest tomorrow. Should be done easily by this time next week.

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Originally Posted by LewisM

HARK!!!!!!!!!! OK, not what I said, but you get the idea!

Fingers crossed,tonight MAY be cloud free in SEQ.

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice and deep Steve. I like the detail in the rear curtain.

Thanks Paul

Quote:

Originally Posted by allan gould

An extraordinary image that shows so much detail.

Thanks Allan

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Originally Posted by niharika

Stunning! Inspires me to redo my processing to see if I can come close to this.

Thanks but don't underrate your own image. I thought that was showing a lot of detail too.

Martin Pugh · #10 02-01-2013, 05:42 PM

The detail in the curtain is exceptional Steve. Great image.

Cheers
Martin

strongmanmike (Michael) · #11 02-01-2013, 06:00 PM

Rather detailed that Steve, excellent

Is this the end of NH imaging for you...?

Mike
Whose computer crashed on start up on NYE (a lovely night) after setting everything up

Peter Ward · #12 02-01-2013, 06:27 PM

A truly stunning result Steve. Excellent

alpal · #13 02-01-2013, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by atalas

That's some great work Steve! great depth,detail in HH is wonderful and the curtain awesome like a backdrop! love to see you get color for this.

I agree - excellent sharp details.

Larryp (Laurie) · #14 02-01-2013, 06:56 PM

Magnificent!

jsmoraes (Jorge) · #15 03-01-2013, 08:53 AM

Excuse me, Steve. But the perfection of your photo crash my dream of seeing a Horse Head ! I can see many others things, except the head of a horse.

I feel alike when I discovered that Santa Claus was not real.

But it is time to grow up and to know the truth !

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Wonderful image, in special the curtain. Should I write the wall ?

Ross G · #16 03-01-2013, 08:53 AM

A great looking photo Steve.

The detail is absolutely amazing!

Ross.

dvj (John) · #17 03-01-2013, 09:09 AM

I think your SNR changed significantly by increasing the exposure time by 50%. Really evident in the smoothness of the image. Amazing what you can get with a small telescope. Well done.

sjastro · #18 03-01-2013, 12:30 PM

Wonderful image Steve.

Regards

Steven

erick (Eric) · #19 03-01-2013, 12:37 PM

That really is a stunning image, Steve, congratulations. Absolutely ethereal! And it looks like you set up the lighting to perfection yourself with the spotlights and highlights on the "curtain"!

Alnitak getting a bit pushy on the left of frame - starting to make its presence known.

However, I still say: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=18401

Stevec35 (Steve) · #20 03-01-2013, 03:50 PM

Thanks for all the nice comments guys. They are very much appreciated. I'm getting colour right now and should have it all in a few days. However Alnitak is going to be a real problem so we will see what happens. In the end the Ha only may well turn out to be the best way to present this.

Cheers

Steve