A colourful spider

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

What? not a galaxy...?

Ok this was just a quicky at the end of the night, just cause....

Hey I've imaged the Tarantula a few times before (haven't we all..?) buuut it was still and clear with no moon (not that this made much difference with NB) and the seeing was quite good around 3.30am when I was planning to finish up, sooo thought ahh what the heck. It's less than 1.5hrs total only (sorry Paul) in SII Ha OIII

...different? ...you might need to look at it for a while..then it might start to grow on you

A Colourful Spider Full Frame

Deep inside the heart of the Spider

8m VLT comparison

Mike

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

What an image to wake up to on a beautiful Saturday morning. Brilliant as always Mike

[stevous67 (Steve M)]

Colour scheme is actually very nice mike.

Is that mapped SII HA OIII= RGB?

Great!

Steve

[gregbradley]

Remarkably deep for 1.5 hours. Amazing really.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by CapturingTheNight

What an image to wake up to on a beautiful Saturday morning. Brilliant as always Mike

on ya Greg actually, after an all nighter, I've just been out having a cuppa on our deck watching the sun rise with my wife

Originally Posted by stevous67

Colour scheme is actually very nice mike.

Is that mapped SII HA OIII= RGB?

Great!

Steve

Cheers Steve and yes...plus some Sidonio tweaks of course

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Remarkably deep for 1.5 hours. Amazing really.

Greg.

Yeah, not bad huh? I probably should do a deeper version now that I've started The guiding was essentially perfect for the whole 1.5hrs too with guide errors < 0.1pix in both axis the entire time

Mike

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Wow! Colours are beautiful, Mike

[Dennis]

Very nice Mike, very nice indeed; what a beautiful cosmic scene.

Cheers

Dennis

[Bassnut (Fred)]

I like the colour generally, well done. Could do with more hrs though, asking for that. Top work for imaging time that is half of 1 decent sub per filter .

[cybereye (Mario)]

1.5 hours? That's it, I'm giving this game away and taking up bocce instead!

What a fantastic image...

Cheers,
Mario

[gregbradley]

Yeah, not bad huh? I probably should do a deeper version now that I've started The guiding was essentially perfect for the whole 1.5hrs too with guide errors < 0.1pix in both axis the entire time

Mike[/QUOTE]

Wow. That NJP of yours is a gem. I did a 330 point T-Point model and tweaked polar alignment on my PME last night. I activated Protrack to help with guiding. I did notice an improvement in star roundness. essentially perfect round (the odd minor elongation on small stars) in 15 minute subs at 3 metres. Not bad. You can see the difference in the image when guiding is that good. Extra sharpness and detail.

Greg.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Nice Mike! Don't reeeally think needs more exposure frankly - but you can never have too much. Like the colours but the blue is a bit overwhelming IMO. If it was mine I'd reduce the blue a tad and then stretch a bit more with curves and shadow highlights.

Cheers, Marcus

[Shiraz (Ray)]

pretty spectacular image Mike. Colours work well and the fine detail is definitely worth having on this object.

[naskies (Dave)]

A radioactive spider... I love it!

[alpal]

Hi Mike,
fantastic results for such short integration time.
keep them coming.

cheers
Allan

[RobF (Rob)]

Bah, showoff!

That's amazingly good for so little exposure time for a NB image Mike, but its particularly hard to hear how good your guiding is as well

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Fantastic image Mike! Especially when just finishing up for the night.

A quickie that goes for 1.5 hrs - I'm not sure if that's good or bad

Well done

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Mike.

So sharp and love the detail.

Ross.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Wow! Colours are beautiful, Mike

Thanks Lazza

Originally Posted by Dennis

Very nice Mike, very nice indeed; what a beautiful cosmic scene.

Cheers

Dennis

Cheers Dennis, it's rather a unique looking area huh?

Originally Posted by Bassnut

I like the colour generally, well done. Could do with more hrs though, asking for that. Top work for imaging time that is half of 1 decent sub per filter .

He he yeah enormously long 7X5min subs on Ha (was literally only doing for fun after a nights run on NGC 1097 last week) and 10min subs on OIII and SII last night

Originally Posted by cybereye

1.5 hours? That's it, I'm giving this game away and taking up bocce instead!

What a fantastic image...

Cheers,
Mario

Hey Bocce is a great fun game that all the family can enjoy

Yes the AG12 comes into its own when you want lots of photons and fast

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Yeah, not bad huh? I probably should do a deeper version now that I've started The guiding was essentially perfect for the whole 1.5hrs too with guide errors < 0.1pix in both axis the entire time

Mike

Wow. That NJP of yours is a gem. I did a 330 point T-Point model and tweaked polar alignment on my PME last night. I activated Protrack to help with guiding. I did notice an improvement in star roundness. essentially perfect round (the odd minor elongation on small stars) in 15 minute subs at 3 metres. Not bad. You can see the difference in the image when guiding is that good. Extra sharpness and detail.

Greg.[/QUOTE]

I can not imagine a mount that could top it and that was with no PEC, no ProTack, nuttin

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Nice Mike! Don't reeeally think needs more exposure frankly - but you can never have too much. Like the colours but the blue is a bit overwhelming IMO. If it was mine I'd reduce the blue a tad and then stretch a bit more with curves and shadow highlights.

Cheers, Marcus

He he Marcus...Awe I recon you struggles witch likin dem colours LOL stretching 7X5min Ha, 20min SII and 30min OIII further? ...The AG12 is good but not that good as for the blue...maybe t'will catch the eye of his Excellency?

Originally Posted by Shiraz

pretty spectacular image Mike. Colours work well and the fine detail is definitely worth having on this object.

Cheers Ray, can never have enough detail...give me low Earth orbit

Originally Posted by naskies

A radioactive spider... I love it!

We could call it the Fukushima Nebula

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Mike,
fantastic results for such short integration time.
keep them coming.

cheers
Allan

Will do Al

Originally Posted by RobF

Bah, showoff!

That's amazingly good for so little exposure time for a NB image Mike, but its particularly hard to hear how good your guiding is as well

Ah yes, watching the guide star centroid [plot make a perfect round circle in the middle 25% of the 1 pix radius bulls eye is horny stuff

Originally Posted by Rod771

Fantastic image Mike! Especially when just finishing up for the night.

A quickie that goes for 1.5 hrs - I'm not sure if that's good or bad

Well done

Err..that should have been 1.5min then ....

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great looking photo Mike.

So sharp and love the detail.

Ross.

Cheers Rossco

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

I like the colour generally, well done. Could do with more hrs though, asking for that. Top work for imaging time that is half of 1 decent sub per filter .

More hours smouwers, too much sky to image too little time

Nah, of course, just couldn't be bothered this time - lazy sod

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great spider. Always a crowd pleaser.