Utterly extraordinary. The seeing must have been joyous and your guiding and tracking perfect. I'm sure there are others out there somewhere, but that's the first time I've seen the bright inner part of the Homunculus actually looking like a double-ended shuttlecock as it's supposed to, with amateur gear. You've got the outer fainter Lion's Mane too.
Utterly extraordinary. The seeing must have been joyous and your guiding and tracking perfect. I'm sure there are others out there somewhere, but that's the first time I've seen the bright inner part of the Homunculus actually looking like a double-ended shuttlecock as it's supposed to, with amateur gear. You've got the outer fainter Lion's Mane too.
Great stuff.
Best,
MBJ
Thanks Mike, the seeing was good but I recon even better is needed to get the basket weave structure and some more focal length of course
Great detail, Mike! I always look at the Fickle Finger to gauge sharpness and it looks sharp as...
Cheers,
Rick.
Cheers Ricki, bit of fun to idle the time rather than cuss at the passing clouds and pack up......bit of cussing occurred at the computer this afternoon though with each chucked cloudy sub
Looks great Mike,
the detail is extraordinary & you've done well to combine the different exposures.
It makes me think that you'd be even more happier with this:
Looks great Mike,
the detail is extraordinary & you've done well to combine the different exposures.
It makes me think that you'd be even more happier with this:
but they are very expensive.
I was thinking about getting one when I get my new 10" f4 Newt up & running.
cheers
Allan
Thanks Alan because of the number of sub frames and the number ruined by cloud and the blending necessary, it required a bit work to put together ...but sigh...that's why we do this huh?
Yes thought about one of those, would work perfectly with my AG12 and would have been useful for this image too...but gee, apart form the price the field would be very small with the H694 thus limit suitable objects so I would need a bigger chip which would have bigger pixels most likely, so back to where I started really, resolution wise.. and too much work to swap over when I wanted to as well. Would be a good accessory if I had an 8300 or even better an APM size chip.
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Very impressive, this is simply astrophotography at another level.
Thanks Alan because of the number of sub frames and the number ruined by cloud and the blending necessary, it required a bit work to put together ...but sigh...that's why we do this huh?
Yes thought about one of those, would work perfectly with my AG12 and would have been useful for this image too...but gee, apart form the price the field would be very small with the H694 thus limit suitable objects so I would need a bigger chip which would have bigger pixels most likely, so back to where I started really, resolution wise.. and too much work to swap over when I wanted to as well. Would be a good accessory if I had an 8300 or even better an APM size chip.
That's cool. Detail is incredible and it's just a darned good image. Well done!
Thanks Davo
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Originally Posted by alistairsam
Mike,
is that another "up yours" nebula at 2 O'clock? why do I see so many in your images?? :-)
nice stuff though
Cheers
Alistair
Well, what ever do you meeeean?? ...at least I don't see dead people well, except Gabriela Mistral...
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Originally Posted by stevous67
Well done Mike, that is a terrific achievement! First class effort on capture and processing.
Actually, it's an inspiring effort Mike, I'd like to give it a try - thanks.
Best regards
Steve
Glad you liked it Steve, bit of improvised fun under adversity...what is it about this imaging game ..just ...GOT TO IMAGE
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Originally Posted by SimmoW
Wow, so deep yet crisp, great one Mike! You can really see the violent nature of the target.
Only criticism is that you need to use more emoticons in your posts
Thanks Simon ...what do you mean ...I don't used many emoticons I mean reeeally? ...emoticons? humf
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Not bad. You'll definitely need more FL for that one. Maybe a barlow or powermate?
Yeah maybe.. but we use what we have, huh?
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Just lovely Mike! Looks better at 100% though
...ok, wise guy heeere weeee go...pick on the 75% full res poster again...I dunno can't please some fussy imagers, too much colour, not enough colour, post at 100%, don't like the colour palette, love the colour palette, stretch it more, don't stretch it, not enough exposure there's a skerrick of noise use a bloody barlow man! lower the contrast!!... ...
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You seem to be taking a more reserved approach to processing colour & contrast these days (?)
Oh, yes, I am veeery conservative these days, arhem, I even get all my learned opinions from Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt now ...just need to get my humour from someone funny now ......
Couple of $$ on a rig that's worth $$$$. All I'm saying is that it's better to over sample a close up shot rather than cropping a prime focus picture. I barlow my small scopes all the time. Makes it easier to get better fine details.
Couple of $$ on a rig that's worth $$$$. All I'm saying is that it's better to over sample a close up shot rather than cropping a prime focus picture. I barlow my small scopes all the time. Makes it easier to get better fine details.
Yeah, I guess, if I could be bothered, thing is apart from being a drive away now, my setup takes too much work to reconfigure, it is setup for the big arse corrector in the FLI Atlas, so I'd need new adapters so I'd have to do real close ups in a batch to make it worth while...I'd get bored . That image is already at 0.83"/pix at prime focus anyway...that's plenty good enough in my general conditions I recon and I'm at F3.8 at that res too
but I persevered 
not a long FL RC at 2200m in the Andes 
.... soooo I am pretty Happy with the outcome 
...bit of cussing occurred at the computer this afternoon though with each chucked cloudy sub 
and too much work to swap over when I wanted to as well. Would be a good accessory if I had an 8300 or even better an APM size chip.
...GOT TO IMAGE 
...what do you mean 
...emoticons? humf 
