Tarantula and LMC

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Captured still climbing through the murk of city lights, here is an hour's worth of 4 minute subs of the Tarantula Nebula and LMC. Processing this was a real challenge. There's almost no usable colour information in this picture - I seriously thought about presenting it as a black and white. Still, I'm very happy with the detail, though it's been heavily JPEG'd here by the ISS forums software.

AT65EDQ scope, Nikon D5100 at ISO 800 with Hutech IDAS P2 LPF on HEQ5 Pro mounting. Bias and flat corrected in DSS. Post processed in Adobe Photoshop.

[raymo]

Can I ask a favour Cam? Since starting digital imaging I've not had the chance to work with an image that was the result of 4 min subs; would you mind if I had a play with this image, just for my own entertainment, you understand. I would then delete the image.
raymo

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Sure, anyone's welcome to have a play. I've put the stacked TIF up on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gvu7102f4s7hupa/LMC1.TIF?dl=0

Due to the awful light pollution the 4 minute subs aren't as exciting as you might hope.

[athua (Gus)]

That shot looks great Cam. Lots of star detail in the LMC.
I too took some shots of Tarantula on Monday night and I'll post it up once I get a chance to process it.

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

That's a nice composition! Such a busy area

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very nice field. Nailed the focus and guiding. Well done.

[archioptic (Nathan)]

Great shot Cam. I love seeing the little nebulosity around this area. I went to image it last weekend but by the time I got to it my lens started fogging over. Next time!

[raymo]

Can I post my vomit inducing psychedelic result of playing with your image, or would you rather I kept it to myself?
raymo

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Go for it raymo!

And thanks everyone for your nice comments.

[raymo]

This is not meant as a serious attempt at an image; you could hang it
on the wall as an abstract art piece.
It is, of course only a JPEG now.
raymo

Oops, Sorry Cam, maybe I should have posted it in a separate thread.

[Rex]

That's a great shot Cam. Your stars are so crisp, well done mate.