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Moon Phase
CURRENT MOON
Waxing Gibbous 68.8%
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02-04-2008, 10:35 PM
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Billions and Billions ...
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Quialigo, NSW
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IC4603, IC4604 and IC 4605
I took this semi wide field of a section of the colourful Rho Ophiucus complex over the last 3 evenings before the moon rose. I had to fight with the seeing at low elevation as well as the city lights are on my SE horizon - hence 3 nights for a mere 4 hours of data.
This was also the first time I used the Tak 645 "Super Reducer" on my 150 to get me to F5.5 - a nice piece of glass!
Comments and critique always welcome!
Small:
http://www.pbase.com/image/95046091/large
Large (3.6M):
http://www.pbase.com/image/95046091/original
Cheers, Marcus
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02-04-2008, 11:15 PM
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E pur si muove
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Cape Town
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Superb pictures Markus.
You obviously doing this for some time now.
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03-04-2008, 06:31 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
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Wow, absolutely stunning result Marcus. I love it.
Are you going to SPSP?
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03-04-2008, 10:17 AM
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Amongst the stars
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Beautiful Markus! Lovely and sharp and superb colors.
Love it!
Lol just noticed I said almost the same as Steve and Mike.. 
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03-04-2008, 03:33 PM
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Support your local RFS
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Excellent Marcus, the triple star looks fantastic and nebulosity is awesome with is twists and swirls.
One fine image, well done
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03-04-2008, 11:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Wow, absolutely stunning result Marcus. I love it.
Are you going to SPSP?
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Thanks Mike. Yep, heading up to Wiruna bright and early!
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Originally Posted by Garyh
Beautiful Markus! Lovely and sharp and superb colors.
Love it!
Lol just noticed I said almost the same as Steve and Mike.. |
Cheers Gary. Yes, the colours are brilliant aren't they! Believe it or not I didn't do any colour saturation in PS - just curves, levels, colour balance and noise reduction! I think I feel a mosaic coming on to get the rest of the complex.
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Originally Posted by Ric
Excellent Marcus, the triple star looks fantastic and nebulosity is awesome with is twists and swirls.
One fine image, well done
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Thanks Ric. Yes, the stars look good gorgeous amidst the blue (even without spikes!  )
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Originally Posted by skwinty
Superb pictures Markus.
You obviously doing this for some time now.
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Thanks a lot Steve. Actually, I've only been in the game for a little over a year.
Cheers, Marcus
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04-04-2008, 04:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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That is some imaging Marcus, beautiful capture indeed, love the different colors, well done.
Leon
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05-04-2008, 09:14 AM
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Phil H
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Location: Cowra NSW
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Hi Marcus stunning shot mate love the colour.
Phil
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06-04-2008, 08:05 PM
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Galaxy hitchhiking guide
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: The Shire
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Marcus,
Nothing not to be impressed by here. Definitely places you in the
heavy hitters league
Pristine round stars, great image scale, good framing, great colour.
Very well done.
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06-04-2008, 08:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by leon
That is some imaging Marcus, beautiful capture indeed, love the different colors, well done.
Leon
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Thanks Leon! I've always wanted to image this area with "natural" colour tones - I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
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Originally Posted by Phil
Hi Marcus stunning shot mate love the colour.
Phil
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Cheers Phil! Glad you liked it!
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Marcus,
Nothing not to be impressed by here. Definitely places you in the
heavy hitters league
Pristine round stars, great image scale, good framing, great colour.
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Thanks Peter, high praise indeed! I'm proud to say I won a prize at SPSP for it as well - a very nice surprise!
Cheers, Marcus
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06-04-2008, 09:44 PM
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Awesome, smooth, top shots
frank
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06-04-2008, 11:24 PM
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Galaxy hitchhiking guide
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Thanks Peter, high praise indeed! I'm proud to say I won a prize at SPSP for it as well - a very nice surprise!
Cheers, Marcus
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Nah. No surprise at all. I suspect the judges had their fingers on the pulse
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07-04-2008, 03:19 PM
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Marcus, that is stunning, congrats on a superb image !!
Congrats also on winning a prize for it as well at SPSP.
Too bad I couldn't make it this year so we could meet up. 
Cheers mate.
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08-04-2008, 01:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RB
Marcus, that is stunning, congrats on a superb image !!
Congrats also on winning a prize for it as well at SPSP.
Too bad I couldn't make it this year so we could meet up.
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Thanks Andrew.
With SPSP being held towards the end of May next year, at least we won't need eskies to keep the beer chilled! 
Cheers, Marcus
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