July Deep Sky Imaging Challenge - Comments

[DavidTrap (David)]

Please post your comments here.

See the images here

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DavidTrap

[allan gould]

Very nice image Peter. I see the QHY8Pro is a winner in your hands.

[RobF (Rob)]

Suggestion - perhaps for the monthly challenge people could post their pics in both the Images and Comments thread? Formal details in the Images thread still, but repeat the pic + general comments in the Comments thread....

I suspect a lot more people would comment too in this format, and for those of us that are really enjoying comparing technical details in the Images thread it will still be there as a valuable resource.

I don't think we're even scratching the surface of peoples thoughts at the moment - I suspect most people open up the Images thread when they see a new image posted but can't easily get back to the Comments thread and just move on.

Just my 20c worth.....

[DavidTrap (David)]

I suspect you're right Rob. The reason for separating the threads was to avoid a massive thread with lots of "great shot" comments. I'll have a chat to a couple of mods and see what they suggest.

DT

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Hi David - a few thoughts:

I agree with Rob that some way of eliciting comments would be good, since the current dual thread idea is clearly not working well. However, even without comments, a collection of widely varying images of a set of objects, along with detailed technical info, is a really valuable resource in its own right and well worth the effort.

Taking Rob's ideas a little further, maybe the best place for contributor comments is alongside each image in an additional section in the equipment summary. Contributors could be asked to comment on their own image making processes, outlining what they thought were the strengths/weaknesses of what they did, their assessment of the equipment/processing they used and the directions they are heading in. I would be happy to contribute in that way and such comments would be available on the same page as the associated image. To allow others to comment, is it possible to add a link at the end of each image posting so that anyone viewing that posting can toggle between it and the discussion thread - where they could post? (as you noted, discussion should be technical comments only - "great shot" and "thanks" comments will clog the discussion thread if it is accessible from multiple images).

Another thing that might be a useful addition would be to ask if anyone is willing to post a summary of what each object is, how/when/where it formed etc. I for one am as much interested in the nature of what we are imaging as in the imaging process itself, although I concede that this may be outside of the scope of the challenge.

Anyway, thanks for managing this very useful sub-forum - the targets to date have been really interesting.