First Image of the New Year - Orion Mosaic

[dvj (John)]

Happy New Year to you all.

Here is a new years' processing of my 4 segment Orion Mosaic in Ha.
There is a little more work to do, like adding short exposure layers to M42, but this is looking good.

Wishing you all the best for 2013.

Data:

FSQ
Proline 16803
4 segments @ 18 x 2400s each segment
5nm Ha bandpass
From Coonabarabran, NSW

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8...starspikes.jpg

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Very Nice ....heaps of detail ....

Flash ..!!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Happy new year to you too John. That's an amazing amount of exposure there hence the fantastic detail I guess. An incredible image all round!

Cheers

Steve

[atalas]

Yeah!looking spectacular so far....Happy NY to ya.

[alpal]

That's a magnificent image - so sharp & clear.

I never get tired of Orion.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

..Ho hum...more B&W....

Needs some magenta I recon

...looks great John

HNY

Mike

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely image, John!

[RickS (Rick)]

Stunning mosaic, John! There's an amazing amount of Ha there.

[Ross G]

An amazing looking mosaic John.

Great detail.

Ross.

[nobbygon (Angus)]

Hi, what's that cone looking nebulous region just below the orion neb?

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

Magnificent mosaic, that's one of the best depictions of the Orion molecular cloud I've seen. Can I ask why some of the brighter stars have diffraction spikes - given your imaging train, I can't imagine what is causing them?
cheers,
Andrew

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by alocky

Magnificent mosaic, that's one of the best depictions of the Orion molecular cloud I've seen. Can I ask why some of the brighter stars have diffraction spikes - given your imaging train, I can't imagine what is causing them?
cheers,
Andrew

Those star spikes are special effects added through a PS software plugin by Pro Digital Software. While it may be considered blasphemy to do that, I thought it added a bit of sparkle to the overall result. nice thing about the software is that the sharpness, length, angle, halo effects are all fully user adjustable. I might go for more subtle spike effects once I get the short m42 exposures layered into the final image. Or none at all.

Cheers, and thank you everyone for your kind words. This is the BEST astronomy forum.

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by nobbygon

Hi, what's that cone looking nebulous region just below the orion neb?

Nebulae around NGC 1999

[Poita (Peter)]

I love the soft detail in this, I personally would give the spikes a miss, it is beautiful enough without the addition of them. I think they distract a bit from it.

[Martin Pugh]

Beautiful John. Now get it finished!

cheers
Martin

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by Poita

I love the soft detail in this, I personally would give the spikes a miss, it is beautiful enough without the addition of them. I think they distract a bit from it.

Easy to make changes. I caught some short data last night for M42. I'll repost the final here and most likely sans spikes.

[gregbradley]

Another awesome Ha from you John. Looking forward to seeing the final result. Not so sure about the sideways framing though. Its funny how we get used to a certain orientation. It was odd enough seeing it "upside down" in US skies!

The spikes are a personal thing. I like them. Looking forward to see some RHA images. The test will be whether it can match an FSQ.

By the way, not that you do many colour images, but FSQ106ED needs flocking material in the tube as it biases the colour to the green with the internal paint having excess green response. You'll get better colour response from the FSQ if you do.

Greg.