My favourites

gregbradley · #1 14-03-2009, 04:23 PM

I have been reorganising my images and made a selection of my favorites from the last few years. Several of these images have not been posted here before.

There are about 14 images:

All were taken from my dark site and were taken with refractors or Tak BRC250. Cameras were ST2000XM (1), STL11 (about 4 or 5), Apogee U16M or FLI Microline 8300. Scopes were FSQ106ED, FSQ106N, Tak FS152, TEC 180L, AP140, Tak BRC250. Mount was always Tak NJP.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/favourites

Greg.

Tilt (Michael) · #2 14-03-2009, 04:35 PM

A sensational collection there Greg, incredible detail in the images you have captured.

Michael

gregbradley · #3 14-03-2009, 04:52 PM

Thanks Michael.

It represents a hell of a lot of work.

Greg.

leon · #4 14-03-2009, 05:49 PM

Great to look at Greg on a wet Saturday afternoon,

well done mate, i enjoyed the whole collection.

Leon

gregbradley · #5 14-03-2009, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by leon

Great to look at Greg on a wet Saturday afternoon,

well done mate, i enjoyed the whole collection.

Leon

You're more than welcome Leon!

Greg.

Tamtarn · #6 14-03-2009, 06:08 PM

Super selection Greg we can see the benefit of all that work for sure

AlexN · #7 14-03-2009, 06:25 PM

Fantastic set indeed.. Love the horse head close up M83..

BerrieK · #8 14-03-2009, 06:26 PM

Thankyou for posting your favourites Greg, they are a truly beautiful collection.

The Venus transit with the jumbo is rather quirky - fantastic - I like it a lot.

marki · #9 14-03-2009, 07:15 PM

Wow Greg, what a fantastic group of pics. All credit to your hard work and skill.

Mark

TrevorW · #10 14-03-2009, 07:57 PM

:thum bsup:

jase (Jason) · #11 14-03-2009, 08:37 PM

All grand images Greg. Your work is solid and consistent. Apologies if you don't like what I'm about to say, but I actually enjoy your earlier images with the 12.5" RC. NGC6744 and NGC6188, I'm particularly fond of. While I can partly understand your motives for getting rid of the RC, I felt you had that rig really dialled in with excellent output. Even if you only get to produce a quality image once every few months in my opinion it's worth it. Productive work is that of quality over quantity. Regardless, thanks for sharing your favourites with us. Really nice panel. Looking forward to more.

richardo (Rich) · #12 15-03-2009, 01:21 AM

Some excellent images there Greg!

I knew you had some gear in the past, but.... woooo

Thanks for sharing your hard work!

All the best
Rich

strongmanmike (Michael) · #13 15-03-2009, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by richardo

I knew you had some gear in the past, but.... woooo

"Some" gear??? man, Greg is the equipment man

Nice selection Greg, your prolific imaging is paying off with great improvement in your processing skills and image quality over the last couple of years, well done.

Mike

Bassnut (Fred) · #14 15-03-2009, 08:38 AM

Thats a good selection Greg, a bit of variety and yes, youve certainly improved over the years. Excellent work work.

gregbradley · #15 15-03-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Super selection Greg we can see the benefit of all that work for sure

Thanks very much Barb.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexN

Fantastic set indeed.. Love the horse head close up M83..

I like those as well, especially the Horsehead.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BerrieK

Thankyou for posting your favourites Greg, they are a truly beautiful collection.

Thanks very much!

The Venus transit with the jumbo is rather quirky - fantastic - I like it a lot.

Yes it was pretty wild. I first saw it in the viewfinder of the Nikon D70 I was using. An amazing coincidence. You can see the distortion the exhaust of the jets engines caused.

[quote=marki;422205]Wow Greg, what a fantastic group of pics. All credit to your hard work and skill.

Thanks for that. It is a lot of work but it really is just fun not work.

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Originally Posted by TrevorW

:thum bsup:

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Originally Posted by jase

All grand images Greg. Your work is solid and consistent. Apologies if you don't like what I'm about to say, but I actually enjoy your earlier images with the 12.5" RC. NGC6744 and NGC6188, I'm particularly fond of. While I can partly understand your motives for getting rid of the RC, I felt you had that rig really dialled in with excellent output. Even if you only get to produce a quality image once every few months in my opinion it's worth it. Productive work is that of quality over quantity. Regardless, thanks for sharing your favourites with us. Really nice panel. Looking forward to more.

Yes those came out well with the RCOS. I will be doing more long focal length work later on. But that is most likely to be a CDK F6.8 and large aperture. F9 is hard when you travel and reducers don't work on RCOSs that well with large chipped cameras.

Quote:

Originally Posted by richardo

Some excellent images there Greg!

Thanks for that.

I knew you had some gear in the past, but.... woooo

Thanks for sharing your hard work!

All the best
Rich

Yes it is quite an assembly of gear but I am happy with what I have now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

"Some" gear??? man, Greg is the equipment man

Nice selection Greg, your prolific imaging is paying off with great improvement in your processing skills and image quality over the last couple of years, well done.

Mike

Thanks Mike. It is a very enjoyable hobby and one where you definitely don't have to worry about putting on sun screen!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Thats a good selection Greg, a bit of variety and yes, youve certainly improved over the years. Excellent work work.

Thanks Fred I appreciate it.

Greg.

Quark (Trevor) · #16 15-03-2009, 12:29 PM

What a lovely selection of images Greg,

I think that in most of us lurks a yearning to get into astrophotography. So many people that post on IIS, that are just discovering the delights of amateur astronomy, express an interest and long term goal of getting into astro imaging. As you would know it is a steep learning curve indeed.

However the work that you and other experienced astro photographers on IIS post is really inspirational to the rest of us, still at the bottom end of that learning curve.

Thank you for posting these fine images.
Regards
Trevor

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #17 15-03-2009, 12:42 PM

What an inspiration. Fantastic collection. Why not post some of you 2nd best! Love to see them too!

Paul Haese · #18 15-03-2009, 03:14 PM

Really nice images Greg. My favourites are the Vela SN remnant and the close up of the horse head. Great stuff.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #19 15-03-2009, 04:21 PM

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Yes it is quite an assembly of gear but I am happy with what I have now.

Yeh daahh... ya sure?

Mike
Jealousy is a curse

madwayne (Wayne) · #20 15-03-2009, 05:59 PM

A truly great collection Greg and I am so happy to have one of your "rejects" in my kit. It is still like new and I am doing my best to it justice.

As a suggestion for your next collection can I suggest you put together your road to greatness. A collection of your first images through to your latest images, perhaps in date order. This will give budding imagers an idea of how long the road, or as Martin Pugh decribed it to me slippery dip, really is. I would do one myself but I have only been happy enough with two or three of mine to post them on here

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Thanks again for sharing your collection and I hope you take my suggestion on board. Maybe others with skills of a level like yours might care to do the same.

All the best.

Regards
Wayne