My Try at The Swan M17

[leon]

Hi Guys, Last night it was super clear and I was going to go for it, and stay out till dawn if i had to, but alas the clouds came in at about 11.

Anyway I was able to capture the Swan, M17 but only got in 7 frames before it clouded over.

So here you have 7 exp @ 6 mins at 400 ISO through the Tak and 5D, ICNR on, On the G11 and Auto Guided with the 80mm WO FD, and that dreaded Orion StarShoot Autoguider, Flats were applied and processing in Image Plus with some touch up's in PS2.

This image is a full un-cropped wide field.

Please feel free to comment either way.

Leon

[bluescope]

Looks good Leon ... colour of M17 is spot on and so many stars !

[Matty P (Matt)]

An excellent result Leon, looks very nice. Lovely colour and detail.

Is it possible to see a larger version?

Very well done.

[browndog (Ian)]

That is great image of M17.

I think that your wide-field view is different to many other images that you normally see.

I think that it looks great.
In my opinion - great colours and detail. Excellent work!

[leon]

Matty,don't know how to mate, but thanks for your comments.

Leon

[leon]

And to Ian,

Thank you also for your comments, the wide fields you speak of is probably due to the fact that I use a Takahashi FSQ-106, it has a 9 degree field of view right to the edges.

Leon

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

To this one Leon .. Yet another new perspective to this object, captured nicely too

[Matty P (Matt)]

Originally Posted by leon

Matty,don't know how to mate, but thanks for your comments.

Leon

What do you mean Leon?

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Originally Posted by leon

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\the wide fields you speak of is probably due to the fact that I use a Takahashi FSQ-106, it has a 9 degree field of view right to the edges.

Leon

i didnt know you had one of those, how long has this been in the armoury?

it looks good, but really needs a bigger image to fully appreciate the detail that this has captured, as i imagine the full sized image looks spectacular.

[leon]

Matty, thanks for your comments, Mate the point is I have no idea how to post a larger image.

Leon

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Its a great image Leon. Keep them coming!

[AlexN]

great FOV! the center of M17 seems a bit burnt out, but other than that its pretty awesome... so many stars!!

[Deeno]

Great widefield......
So many stars!

[theodog (Jeff)]

Top WF image Leon.
Shows lots of dark lanes in the star field and plenty of faint knots of H around the area. I'll use this image as a finder for some of these Ha regions.
Well done

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Originally Posted by leon

Mate the point is I have no idea how to post a larger image.

Leon

try cropping a section out........ open it in photoshop use the selection tool , set the style in the toolbar to fixed size (type in 800px or whatever you want) drag the selection box to the bit you want.

go back to the menu and under image drop down to crop

go to the menu again file drop down to save for web

keep an eye on the file size and adjust image size to what you want be it 50% 75% or 100% for the bold then adjust the quality down to fit to 200kb. just try not to introduce jpg artifacts (try to keep above 70%) adjusting either these should give you what you want, as for the whole image at a larger file size .... 200kb wont do it so you will need to upload to your own website ...or.... IIS does have a large file download option (dont ask me how as i havent used it before) PM mike (iceman) he will know or point you to the HOW TO page.

[RB (Andrew)]

A 5D on a TAK FSQ-106 = Wide field indeed.
Nice work Leon.
The centre appears a little clipped but other than that a v.nice vista.

Try Alchemy's advice on getting a larger image scale, you should have plenty of pixels to play with from the 5D.

Cheers mate.

[leon]

Will do Andrew, I will give it a shot.

leon

[winensky]

I was going to setup around 9 lastnight but it was loooking hazy. Wish i had now. Your TAK is beautiful and razor sharp right across those wide fields. Wonderful to behold.