Thanks a lot guys. THe Jewelbox is one of my fav as well.
Yeah very productive. 4 nights non stop. Well 3.5. I crashed Friday at 1:00am. Too old.
Incredible seeing. I keep repeating myself, but you'll see when you check the 1:1.
If I shot mono with a camera with smaller pixel size it would have been better.
It was that still.
Wow! A refreshing approach. Many of the regions that you've shown are new to me, or new and fresh by virtue of image scale or presentation. But I suspect that Bigfoot and the Corona Australis shots are my favourites. So many stars!
We look at distant galaxies and think, wow, that looks like a dust lane, or there that bit looks like a star forming region. But here you've zoomed in, in great detail, on the lass next door.
Wow – a breathtaking set Marc. Really nicely done and agree, the hi res shots are worth a click.
Cheers
Dennis
PS – love your rainbow, star studded pier.
Thanks Dennis. Haha... yeah we got a bit excited with the colors when we decorated it with my daughter.
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Originally Posted by RB
Beautiful images Marc.
The FF are gorgeous.
What gear did you use?
RB
Thanks Andrew. FSQ106N at prime with QHY8 on G11, OAG with lodestar. I used PHD 1 for guiding, Nebulosity 2 for capture. For calibration and stacking I used CCD Stack. For star registration MBJ's Prometheus and for color balance his Goodlook 64 brew.
I should put the integration times in the OP. Will do now.
Its a new approach to capture these impressive naked eye stars in their fields and treat them as objects in themselves.
It might be a good project to capture as many different star colours as you can though blue white is going to dominate . I note that you still captured the orange of the small carbon star close to beta crux, and the bright second companion star to acrux.
There is a certain three dimensionality about capturing these stars against a more distant looking background matrix !
Its a new approach to capture these impressive naked eye stars in their fields and treat them as objects in themselves.
It might be a good project to capture as many different star colours as you can though blue white is going to dominate . I note that you still captured the orange of the small carbon star close to beta crux, and the bright second companion star to acrux.
There is a certain three dimensionality about capturing these stars against a more distant looking background matrix !
Thanks Mark. I've always slew to a bright star in the past to do my focusing and sync then let it guide a bit, let temperature settle, let PHD do its thing, tweak settings and balance and if everything is working then I move to my first target if it's up. I usually don't keep the subs but sometime I do. These turned up quite nice. The conditions were perfect and the old Q gives such nice colors and hues that it would have been a shame to bin the lot so I let it shoot long enough to make some pics.
It's only the last night I went to find something else bright in crux and Cederblad 122 was in Sky Safari. Two bright enough stars, one orange, one blue to figure out where I was and let it shoot. It is a lot bigger than my FOV. There seems to be a lot of interesting areas in there more suited to longer focal length. Like this thing below. Not sure what it is. Looks like some kind of bubble. Maybe a cool target for someone with a big FL.
