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25-04-2008, 04:27 PM
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Singing in the rain II
Did a few more crops but this is my overall favourite slice of Eta's surrounding nebula:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...11399/original
Again cropped from the orginal with no other processing. Link to the full frame image is underneath.
That was fun...
Mike
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25-04-2008, 04:47 PM
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Wow Mike amazing detail in there !!!
Beautiful work mate.
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25-04-2008, 04:54 PM
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Stunning shot Mike love the colour. Well done mate.
Phil
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25-04-2008, 04:57 PM
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bit bored today Mike - rain and flooding here - sunny skies back in canberra???What did we do to deserve this??? But i suppose it allows you to reprocess and show us these tid bits!!
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25-04-2008, 05:06 PM
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Looking for a big wooden ark .... my garage has been flooded (again !!!).
I wonder if the jewfish are on the bite on Stockton and Nobby's breakwaters ? Too bad I've got no whole jewsized whole squid in the freezer (only some bottle squid), and not got any livies. Might have to settle for using whole fillets of mullet if I can some fresh whole mullet at the coop tomorrow .... Dammit.
Can forget about chasing nigger for the next couple of weeks too .... the seas will have removed any wire weed or cabbage off the rock platforms , and there's no weed in the stormwater drains now the rain will have seen to that. Double dammit !!
Back to the books - exam next Friday.
Last edited by Ian Robinson; 25-04-2008 at 05:18 PM.
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25-04-2008, 05:34 PM
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That shot should have an "R" rating!
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25-04-2008, 05:37 PM
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Mike, almost as much detail as this on a lowly Meade
http://fredsastro.googlepages.com/Ke...lsmlC-full.jpg
Well, thats maybe not quite right  , anyway, impressive for a crop on a refractor/large chip. Often widefield heavily croped looks like crap, not the case here, very imressive. Sheesh, give NB a go punk, more colourfull, I recon youd cream it
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25-04-2008, 08:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bassnut
Mike, almost as much detail as this on a lowly Meade
http://fredsastro.googlepages.com/Ke...lsmlC-full.jpg
Well, thats maybe not quite right  , anyway, impressive for a crop on a refractor/large chip. Often widefield heavily croped looks like crap, not the case here, very imressive. Sheesh, give NB a go punk, more colourfull, I recon youd cream it 
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Yeh yeh yeh.. in a perfect world I'd have a long FL "and" a shorter FL but having the mid range FL in pristene optics allows me both in one scope
That Keyhole looks like a Sidney Nolan...very nice piece of art that!
Don't worry mate, Astronomik narrow band filters are not far away
Mike
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25-04-2008, 09:05 PM
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Quietly watching
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just lovely... superb fine detail. i just wish i could do this.
dont have that sort of gear
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25-04-2008, 10:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
Looking for a big wooden ark .... my garage has been flooded (again !!!).
I wonder if the jewfish are on the bite on Stockton and Nobby's breakwaters ? Too bad I've got no whole jewsized whole squid in the freezer (only some bottle squid), and not got any livies. Might have to settle for using whole fillets of mullet if I can some fresh whole mullet at the coop tomorrow .... Dammit.
Can forget about chasing nigger for the next couple of weeks too .... the seas will have removed any wire weed or cabbage off the rock platforms , and there's no weed in the stormwater drains now the rain will have seen to that. Double dammit !!
Back to the books - exam next Friday.
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Fishing....the other gentleman's pastime.....speaking of which, last night....too much cloud so I went fishing instead of observing. Got busted off twice by two large rock cod. Got their heads under the rocks and that was it....goodnight fish.
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25-04-2008, 11:26 PM
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Some stunning detail there Mike... nicely done  I was having a scout round your PBase pages - some excellent work on there.
Regards,
Rob.
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26-04-2008, 12:03 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil
Stunning shot Mike love the colour. Well done mate.
Phil
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Cheers Phil, I posted the full frame a few weeks back, just got bored today with all the rain.
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Originally Posted by RB
Wow Mike amazing detail in there !!!
Beautiful work mate.
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Thanks Andrew, this was taken at pretty low altitude too so perhaps I have another crack now that it i sgetting higher, only 60min of data too spread over the LHaRG&B so that ain't much at all.
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Originally Posted by Craig_L
That shot should have an "R" rating! 
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Sexy nebulae huh?
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Originally Posted by Alchemy
just lovely... superb fine detail. i just wish i could do this.
dont have that sort of gear 
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Ah, you need a CCD huh?
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Originally Posted by robgreaves
Some stunning detail there Mike... nicely done  I was having a scout round your PBase pages - some excellent work on there.
Regards,
Rob.
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Cheers Rob, as I have mentioned to others, this was a quicky right at the end of an all night imaging run 6 weeks ago. Eta was still pretty low and the sun was coming so I snapped what I could 10min each R,G & B + 10min Lum and 20min Ha that was it. It went together easily and needed little processing. Funny how some of our best images can come from the least work
Glad you had a prowl around my web site, astrophotography is fun huh?
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26-04-2008, 08:23 AM
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Lot's of OOOO's and AHHH's for this one Mike, it's a beauty.
Well done.
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27-04-2008, 06:09 PM
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Heavenly. Just exquisite detail.
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27-04-2008, 09:53 PM
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Yep nothing wrong with that pic. Imagine doing a moasic with the Proline
Scott
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27-04-2008, 10:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tornado33
Yep nothing wrong with that pic. Imagine doing a moasic with the Proline
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Have thought about it a few times as yes could make something pretty special, trouble is I don't have the patience without a permanent observatory. A nice mosaic will be high on my to-do list if I ever get an observatory again though.
Mike
...then again, who knows...?
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