Once the large images are up it burst to life. I really like the way you've processed the blue nebulosity, quite translucent.
Cheers,
Justin.
Thanks Justin. I was surprised it had so much depth. I took this at my home observatory. It can be quite dark in the west which is where I took this one.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Nice to see that close up in fine detail, Greg! I'm still trying to identify all the H-H objects and other goodies.
Cheers Rick. Yes there are some interesting red patches in the dust there. Something glowing and brooding there.
Nice Greg, especially near city lights. Must be a wonderful rig to work with. My only thought would be a little more short exposure data on the brighter regions/stars might make those a little less harsh. It is certainly interesting to see so much close detail when people are normally shooting this ultrawide.
Nice Greg, especially near city lights. Must be a wonderful rig to work with. My only thought would be a little more short exposure data on the brighter regions/stars might make those a little less harsh. It is certainly interesting to see so much close detail when people are normally shooting this ultrawide.
Thanks Rob. In hindsight I agree it could have benefitted from some short exposures blended in to the "core". Those central stars are quite bright and that's after several steps to tame them.
The CDK17 is a very nice scope. But it really needs careful flats otherwise it can be very very difficult. Vignetting is one of the compromises in the optical formula they have chosen. So I find it vignette quite badly on the 16803 chip and that becomes aggravated by a bit of hot central spot. If there is any light pollution like to my east, it makes image processing very difficult, hard to get colour balance, and generally requires a lot of careful gradient handling processing. This one was way to the west where its darker for me and not much light pollution. I am going to make a little baffle for the mirror where it meets the central tube to reduce this hot spot after talking to Joe Hedrick from Planewave at AAIC.
Very good Greg. Looks a lot less harsh now. Nice high res well processed shot.
Cheers
Steve
Thanks Steve. Large aperture sometimes means shorter exposure times to get a decent exposure. I was imaging this whilst waiting for a galaxy to rise high enough in the east.
Another nice piece of work Greg and very hard to notice it been taken from the outer burbs, always a challenge in every capture eh.
You Gotta be happy with that result speshly with the dynamics within the firld, Interesting indeed
Another nice piece of work Greg and very hard to notice it been taken from the outer burbs, always a challenge in every capture eh.
You Gotta be happy with that result speshly with the dynamics within the firld, Interesting indeed
Thanks Bob. I was happy as the object is starting to get low in the sky now.
