Crux and Sagitarius Widefields Astrofest

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Again, using the 20d and the Canon 50mm lens on the eq5.
Crux - approx 1hr @ ISO 800
Sag - 1hr and 34min @ ISO 800
2.15 minute subs
Stacked in DSS
Processed in CS3

[h0ughy (David)]

did pretty darn well with those JJJ, fantastic shot with the lagoon and all its mates

[iceman (Mike)]

Both lovely images, JJJ!

[TrevorW]

You are really nailing these wide fields JJ

well done

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Nicely done indeed

[Jeff]

Love your Sagitarius pic, turned out great.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Really nice piccies, Jeanette....love the Sag'

[mick pinner]

lovely images Jeanette.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Nice work jjj.

[AlexN]

Awesome images JJJ! the sagitarius image clearly shows M8, M20, M16, M17 and M21.. Looks fantastic!

[Dennis]

Hi Jeanette

Those are lovely photos of a couple of stunning regions – top stuff.

I’m just reading “Photoshop Astronomy” by R.Scott Ireland and I’m on “Chapter 3 The Histogram and Level – Defining Tonal Range” so I thought I would apply the techniques to your Crux image.

When I opened a copy of your image, I noticed that the black point was a little way (right) across the Histogram, so the darks and shadows were not occupying the full Tonal Range.

Anyhow, this is reasonably new stuff to me so I’ll let the attached screen copies illustrate what I am trying to say. Thanks for indulging me!

Cheers

Dennis

[RB (Andrew)]

Hey well done Jeanette, these are lovely shots !

Good work.

Edit: Great advice Dennis.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Thanks Dennis. Repro away, I don't mind in the least. I've not gotten into the histogram side of it yet. Just happy to capture something recognisable at the moment.
We sure missed you last week. (Gerald especially)

[Lester]

Very nice images Jeanette.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Jeanette,

Well done, they've come up beautifully. I'll just add +1 vote to Dennis' advice.

Regards,
Humayun

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Nice Jeanette!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice pics Love the second one. You can clearly see the lagoon and trifid nebulae, swan and eagle. Top shots.

[loc46south (Geoffrey)]

Hi - Like the Crux image - It' one of my favorite parts of the sky. I feel there is still a lot of undiscovered depth and detail left in the image - sorry I can't help further my P/S skills are still fairly primitive.

Keep up the good work

[atalas]

Both beautiful shots Jeanette! congrats.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

That little nifty fifty was working overtime for the week. Fantastic shots Jeanette. Especially like the middle of the galaxy shot.