LMC Central Mosaic

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Excellent Eddie, 40 hrs is insane (esp with bad weather), painfull

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Fantastic. Such dedication has certainly paid off.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

I love this patch of sky - and this is a terrific image Eddie - well done!

Cheers, Marcus

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Spectacular image of the LMC..

Cheers Petra d.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Superb vista! So many details and stuff to look around. Top stuff.

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

All I can say is amazing.

Frank

[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

G'day Eddie

Done it again - onya

Need 2 talk 2 u re possible Aus imaging conference. I
am at Leyburn 4 weekend. Will contact when back on Coast.

Hate typing on iPhone - fingers r 2 big.

Bolton

[EddieT (Eddie)]

m m m m m malin?

Ha Houghy...You know what they say about the ordering of carts and horses ! I'll submit it for sure...

That's a stunner Eddie. Such wonderful processing as well.

Thanks Greg.

Excellent Eddie, 40 hrs is insane (esp with bad weather), painfull

Thanks Fred. Yep I agree. Insane! All these mosaics are making me want more megapixels. Certainly would ease the workload.

Thanks also Dr Paul, Marc, Frank, Petra, Troy, Marcus and Mexhunter. Greetings to you as well!

[EddieT (Eddie)]

Hi Mark, good to hear from you.

Originally Posted by Bolts_Tweed

Need 2 talk 2 u re possible Aus imaging conference. I
am at Leyburn 4 weekend. Will contact when back on Coast.

NP mate, send me a PM or email...

[Paul Haese]

Lovely illustration of the Ha in this region. The field is great. Guiding is superb as to be expected. If I was to suggest any thing I would say there needs to be more green in the image. The blue and red components seem to be overpowering the green and SII. Maybe its my screen. Very nice work all the same Eddie, no doubt your entrant for this years DM awards.

[Garyh]

Beautiful field of view Eddie! I don`t think there is another region that shows so much fine detail ex in Ha...
40hrs...wow! but sure worth it!
cheers Gary

[EddieT (Eddie)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Lovely illustration of the Ha in this region. The field is great. Guiding is superb as to be expected. If I was to suggest any thing I would say there needs to be more green in the image. The blue and red components seem to be overpowering the green and SII. Maybe its my screen.

Thanks Paul. You could be right about the Green. This image is the result of another of my attempts to try and make use of my ever worsening, light polluted skies. The idea was to not take any Green at all, which is why Sii and G are both synthesised. Also helps to cut down on imaging time and has the built-in advantage of providing a slightly different view of things. I've given up on pure RGB from this location!

Though G synthesising is easy enough to do manually, I used Noel Carboni's tool in this case and the resulting G was far too strong. Not sure if thats a result of the tool or a natural one as I didn' try a manually synthed G to compare to. Anyway, the upshot of that is that I ended up using the histograms to get to the final balance and toned the G down considerably.

I did some eyeball tweaking of the final result thinking my monitor was well calibrated, but I'm still having some problems with the application of the final monitor profile and think I *might* be double-profiling somewhere along the way. So my screen accuracy is in doubt at the moment.

I wish there were an easy way to see how images look on other peoples monitors!

Very nice work all the same Eddie, no doubt your entrant for this years DM awards.

Thanks Paul. Yes it will be one of my entries, I have another ready to go. Bit different to every other year where I'm still processing the day before the deadline!

[EddieT (Eddie)]

Hi Gary, good to hear from you.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Beautiful field of view Eddie! I don`t think there is another region that shows so much fine detail ex in Ha...
40hrs...wow! but sure worth it!
cheers Gary

Thanks Gary. It is worth it.... I think I would give anything to have the skies you have up there! It takes a lot of work to get Surfers Paradise out of my images, and I suspect that at least a little of Surfers is still in every image!

All the best mate.

[bokglob (Darrell)]

Congratulations to you Eddie. You've produced an absolutly beautiful rendition of a beautiful part of our southern sky. Masterful

[EddieT (Eddie)]

Originally Posted by bokglob

Congratulations to you Eddie. You've produced an absolutly beautiful rendition of a beautiful part of our southern sky. Masterful

Many thanks to you! Most appreciated.

[atalas]

Beautiful Eddie!

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Jesus H Christ Eddie!!!!
I've been on holiday...and I come back to this!!!
Wonderful image.
:thum bsup:
5 Thumbs up
Doug

[TheDecepticon]

Very nice Eddie.

[Phil Hart]

beautiful eddie.. you sure aren't afraid to tackle big projects!

that's a great new composition on an otherwise familiar region. i love the subtle wisps on the mid-right hand side. i remember liking them visually as well..

phil

[Ian Cooper]

Well done Eddie. I wasn't surprised when you said that there was more processing than imaging time involved. It is definitely worth it when you get a result like that though.

The scary part Eddie is knowing that there is a similar sized field just north of that one filled with lots of goodies, and when you finish that one there is one to the east of similar class. When you dive into the LMC be prepared to take plenty of oxygen with you!

I'm afraid N.Hemisphere people just don't know what they are missing out on when it comes to The Clouds of Magellan.

Keep it going.