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Old 12-08-2010, 02:19 AM
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The Snake Nebula (B72) in Ophiuchus

Well, here's first semi-proper light for my FSQ-106N.

My STL has a broken filter wheel and is on its way to Peter Ward to hopefully get fixed. So, I used the 5D Mark II instead. I was really hoping to go ape on Rho Ophiuchus. It's my favourite part of the sky and I've been desperate to re-image it after my other DSLR attempt from several years ago. As the camera's not modified and therefore insensitive to hydrogen alpha, I spent the weekend chasing down dark nebulae and reflection nebulae.

This composition marks the longest cumulative exposure that I've done to date on a DSLR, 4 hours and 30 minutes. I know this is small fry when it comes to multi-hour LRGB marathon sessions, but, I think it's a pretty decent effort for a DSLR.

One of the things that caught me off guard was that I only needed to expose for 300 seconds before starting to reach saturation on bright stars. This is no doubt a result of imaging at f/5 instead of the f/7.5 that I got used to on the ED127. About a stop faster, and therefore, no need for 10-minute exposures on a one-shot colour device.

Anyways, hope you like it. Lynchings, bashings, comments, and critique is, as always, most welcome.

Normal resolution available here.

Thank you for looking.

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Old 12-08-2010, 03:05 AM
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Sensational image Humayun. Even without the STL you are in a select group of DSLR masters, so armed with that FSQ you can clearly still do top work

I would like to see a bigger version though....

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Old 12-08-2010, 03:50 AM
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This photo rocks! Very interesting, very unusual and perfectly executed!
Wow!
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Old 12-08-2010, 06:05 AM
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As Mike said, You sure are a master of the DSLR Humi...

Fantastic work...
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Old 12-08-2010, 07:05 AM
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That's come out beautiful!
Very golden sky as you predicted
beautiful
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Old 12-08-2010, 08:34 AM
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Now thats how you use a DSLR!
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Old 12-08-2010, 08:56 AM
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That is indeed very nice. Post the full res. c'mon!
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Old 12-08-2010, 09:07 AM
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I wonder if the saturation point is real or just a glitch of the JPG that the camera shows in the display. The histogram is the JPG histogram. Did you check in the RAW histogram if you had still some room to expose on the bright stars? Thanks!
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Old 12-08-2010, 09:09 AM
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Wowsers H, stunning.
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Old 12-08-2010, 09:59 AM
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DSLR at it's finest. Super work H.
My goodness there are some nice images posted on IIS these days.
Now hurry up with the new CCD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 12-08-2010, 10:10 AM
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Hi Humayun, you are very good at this and your image is testament to that. Thanks for the view and all the best.
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:04 AM
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Nice shot of the dust there, H

There's a pterodactyl there too, off to the right of the "joe blake"...see his wings and body, and a thin neck and pointy head (faint), and his tail
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:59 AM
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Wow H,

Are you SURE you didnt point the camera straight down while at the beach????
SOOOO many stars it looks like sand.

Captial A for Awesome dude.

Excellent.

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Old 12-08-2010, 02:13 PM
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Absolutely Insanely Good!!!

I love that area and the depth of field you have got here is sensational.

There is a portion at about 2 o'clock that is so 3 dimensional i love it.

That's some fine skill and work with such a wide field.

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Old 12-08-2010, 03:20 PM
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Splendid work Humayun. Shame about the STL though. Keep them coming.
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Old 12-08-2010, 04:27 PM
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Excellent Snake Humayun!

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Old 12-08-2010, 04:32 PM
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Pretty wild area looking to the heart of our galactic centre, the star field is massive and this image just shows us how dense things are with the wider fovs...
Just wall to wall...
Gotta love fast scopes with excellent optics!!

Great work H !!

Yes shame about the FW... ain't there always some thing

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Old 12-08-2010, 05:37 PM
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Yep, looking nice, I like the dust at 2 o'clock very interesting.
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Old 12-08-2010, 06:03 PM
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Beautiful widefield shot of this interesting snakey thing.
Lovely work Mr H
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Fantastic image H.

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