The Orion Nebula

[gregbradley]

I took my TEC110 fluorite for a spin recently and did some imaging with it. Its a lovely little scope with superb optics. The KAF8300 chip is a good match for the fast optics. I got this scope as I wanted richer colours than I was getting from the standard FSQ106ED. The switch from fluorite to ED glass in the FSQ came at the cost of some subtle colour saturation in my opinion.

I took this one about 6 weeks ago. I did 3 nights worth but only 1 nights imaging made the cut. More exposure time would have been nicer as always.

TEC110 Fluorite oiled triplet. FLI ML8300, PME mount.

90 minutes 390 seconds for the core.

http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/149638107

Greg.

[SpaceNoob (Chris)]

very nice, great colour

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Very vibrant and great colours. Excellent work!

[ChrisM]

Nice work Greg - composition and colours.

Chris

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Feel like I'm floating that image Greg!

Colours are superb.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Beautiful image, Greg!

[alexandre (Alexandre)]

It's a great image !
bravo !
@lex

[DJT (David)]

Hi Greg

Great composition and colours. Like thr processing.

Noticed (at least on my monitor) that when looking at the full image that you have a couple of pixel colour runs (is that the term?) Far right, 2/3rds of the way up, 4 artifacts (red and blue "runs") and if you go horizontal from there just left of centre, a couple of similar artifacts

I've had these before and wondered what the cause is? just assumed its a processing thing

cheers

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

As usual ...another superb shot
Good Work Greg.

Flash...!!

[LewisM]

Greg - I FULLY concur on fluorite vs ED. VERY hard to beat a fluorite in my opinion. EXTREMELLY impressed with my old FL102S for imaging and visual.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Mastered piece

[David Fitz-Henr]

Beautiful image Greg; nice colour processing!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Wow, still getting M42 huh? Seems it hangs around for ages I agree, the colours look very nice.

Mike

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by SpaceNoob

very nice, great colour

Thanks for that. So far I have noticed this little scope does produce vibrant and clear colours easily.

Originally Posted by 04Stefan07

Very vibrant and great colours. Excellent work!

Thanks Stefan.

Originally Posted by ChrisM

Nice work Greg - composition and colours.

Chris

Cheers Chris.

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Feel like I'm floating that image Greg!

Colours are superb.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin. Some would argue but I have always felt there is a slight gain with fluorite versus other glasses. It may be subtle but its there. With this scope the colour on images I have done with it so far does seem more vibrant that other scopes I have used.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Beautiful image, Greg!

Thanks Larry.

Originally Posted by alexandre

It's a great image !
bravo !
@lex

Thank you Alex.

Originally Posted by DJT

Hi Greg

Great composition and colours. Like thr processing.

Noticed (at least on my monitor) that when looking at the full image that you have a couple of pixel colour runs (is that the term?) Far right, 2/3rds of the way up, 4 artifacts (red and blue "runs") and if you go horizontal from there just left of centre, a couple of similar artifacts

I've had these before and wondered what the cause is? just assumed its a processing thing

cheers

Yeah I thought I got all those, I cleaned the rest up. Thanks for letting me know. Not sure where they came from either.

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

As usual ...another superb shot
Good Work Greg.

Flash...!!

Well thank you! Cheers.

Originally Posted by LewisM

Greg - I FULLY concur on fluorite vs ED. VERY hard to beat a fluorite in my opinion. EXTREMELLY impressed with my old FL102S for imaging and visual.

Yes I think there is an edge to fluorite all other things equal.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Mastered piece

Thank yo for the nice compliment.

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Beautiful image Greg; nice colour processing!

Cheers David.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow, still getting M42 huh? Seems it hangs around for ages I agree, the colours look very nice.

Mike

Thanks Mike. Its an older image taken maybe 6-8 weeks ago.

Greg.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Gorgeous image Greg! Processing & colour spot on IMO.

Cheers, Marcus

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Gorgeous image Greg! Processing & colour spot on IMO.

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks very much Marcus! Its a great little scope and I'll have to take to my dark site and use it soon as well.

Greg.

[Draco (Draco)]

excellant work .. well done

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Draco

excellant work .. well done

Thanks Niv.

Greg.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Greg, that is fantastic

Very inspiring

[RB (Andrew)]

The large (original) version looks lovely Greg.