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Old 11-04-2009, 09:00 AM
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An Experiment in finding dust

I saw that there was supposed to be dark nebulae the region of Lupus. I decided to image the region and see what I could get. This is not supposed to be a "pretty picture". No framing; just point and shoot (for 11 hours total). Here's what I got:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astr...s-1_00007a.htm

Lots of stuff everywhere I point my scope! It may take a while to load with the mouse-over.

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Old 11-04-2009, 09:37 AM
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gee wizz out with the dyson in that area!! fantastic - and how will you eventually do this justice with the final imaging sessions and reprocessing - looks impressive to me?
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Old 11-04-2009, 10:36 AM
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Great site, great scope, great camera and great processing you got it all, no wonder you can just point and shoot anywhere and get stuff . To have the luxury of being able to do this really opens up the heavens like never before
Imaine what the planned new 8.1m sky mapper, that can image the whole sky above down to 24mag in just three nights, will be able to do

You seemed to have imparted quite a bit of colour into faint dust with rather modest colour data Tom, any secret to doing that?

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Old 11-04-2009, 11:20 AM
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Top work Tom.
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Old 12-04-2009, 12:30 AM
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WOW!...that's lovely Tom.

Those hours sure paid off.
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Old 12-04-2009, 09:35 AM
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Can't recall ever seeing this region imaged before Tom. Thanks for the 11 hours spent in capturing such an unusual subject to share with us. Spectacularly done!!

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Old 12-04-2009, 11:18 AM
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A remarkable image. I've never seen this region before
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Old 12-04-2009, 11:29 AM
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excellent work
thanks for sharing it with us
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Old 12-04-2009, 01:20 PM
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Beautiful image Tom, Like Barb and Dave mention, have never seen this before. The dust has such a lovely color and saturation!
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Old 12-04-2009, 02:47 PM
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You seemed to have imparted quite a bit of colour into faint dust with rather modest colour data Tom, any secret to doing that?

Mike
Some saturation before DDP and then during Photoshop process careful saturation so to not make the colors blotchy.

Tom
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Old 13-04-2009, 06:00 PM
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Very impressive. All your shots got this "Wow!" factor. Top work.

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Old 13-04-2009, 07:55 PM
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excellent work and dedicastion there o get 11 hrs worth.

Well done.

Thx for posting the image it is really interesting to have a "wander" through it.

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Old 16-04-2009, 05:25 AM
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very nice indeed
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Old 16-04-2009, 09:32 AM
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This is the most extraordinary image. The amount of detail is amazing and I could look at it for hours.

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