Large Magellanic Cloud

[Atmos (Colin)]

This is an image that I had wanted to take up at Snake Valley but with the Saturday night clouding out I have since taken it up at Heathcote.

So far I haven't done anything but crop, stretch and quickly play with the curves. It is a 2x6 panel mosaic taken with my D700 and Sky Rover 130mm F/5. Need to work a bit more again on my focuser collimation as it is a bit off at the moment, going to order a holographic projection for my Glatter to mitigate this issue.

Panels 1,2,3,4 & 6 are 15x180s while panel 5 is 29x180 (I slept through my alarm!). Frame edges aren't great due to pretty excessive tilt but ah well, not noticeable after downsizing

Going to do a proper process of this region over the weekend (if I get time). This is a bit of a teaser

50% Res on Astrobin

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice, Colin!

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Colin!

Thanks Rick. I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how to do the Bayer Drizzle in PI. Want to figure that out before sitting down for a final process. Doesn't matter at ~12% of full res

[plantnerd (Luis)]

Really nice looking image

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by plantnerd

Really nice looking image

Thanks Louis

[multiweb (Marc)]

Looks very fine Colin. Well done.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

There's certainly some detail in there to play with.
Look forward to the end result.

Trev

[Atmos (Colin)]

Not sure why but for whatever reason my D700 will not take an image below a FWHM of 2.8 pixels so I have discovered that even a Bayer Drizzle doesn't have much of an effect so I have just stuck with some plain integration. Hasn't mattered whether I am imaging at 24mm, 35mm, 85mm, 120mm or 680mm, always the same FWHM.

At any rate, reprocessed it and posted a 50% res version on Astrobin plus the Technical Card has plate solved it all for me

Originally Posted by multiweb

Looks very fine Colin. Well done.

Thanks Marc

Originally Posted by Regulus

There's certainly some detail in there to play with.
Look forward to the end result.

Trev

Thanks Trev, I am thinking I may go and do it again with a proper camera, resolution will be a LOT better

[atalas]

Nice shot Colin