Horsehead CDK17 at F4.5

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Very smooth Greg! Its looking very good

Cheers Rod. A project for next week if the weather forecast is true.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

cooking with gas at f4.5 Greg - really impressive result. regards Ray

Thanks Ray. The reducer is good but tricky with only 47mm of backfocus.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Oh yes! Very nice Greg! Definitely looking forward to seeing this one finished!

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus. I was happy to get such a bright image with only 90 minutes of data.

Originally Posted by RobF

What a wonderful result. Definitely hoping to see more of this one Greg.

Thanks Rob. Looking like next week (full moon week) or the week after with the current weather forecast.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great close-up. Very smooth.

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Wow, that's fantastic Greg! Well done. When I retire and get some land out in the sticks away from any light pollution - I'll have to get one of those! In the meantime, I'll keep dreaming

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great close-up. Very smooth.

Cheers Marc. I am shooting some more data tonight. Weather is unexpectedly clear - yah!

Originally Posted by cazza132

Wow, that's fantastic Greg! Well done. When I retire and get some land out in the sticks away from any light pollution - I'll have to get one of those! In the meantime, I'll keep dreaming

Cheers, thanks for the nice compliment. Dark skies, enjoying Australias great vast open spaces with some astrophotography is a great activity.

Greg.

[Ross G]

Great photo Greg.

Sharp, detailed and so close!

Ross.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great photo Greg.

Sharp, detailed and so close!

Ross.

Thanks Ross. I've been accumulating data on this one over the last few nights. Got some colour too but the moon is a bit bright now so the rest of the colour will have to wait until the moon goes.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Nice Greg. Colour edition will be nice.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice Greg. Colour edition will be nice.

Thanks Paul. I have imaged more Ha and some RGB but need the new moon to get enough RGB to be noiseless enough.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Thanks Paul. I have imaged more Ha and some RGB but need the new moon to get enough RGB to be noiseless enough.

Greg.

Yes waiting for new moon myself to start getting the data on this object. Planning on 15 hours of colour and 10 or so hours of Lum to add to the 17 hours of Ha I have.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Yes waiting for new moon myself to start getting the data on this object. Planning on 15 hours of colour and 10 or so hours of Lum to add to the 17 hours of Ha I have.

Sounds good.

Greg.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

What a lovely close up Greg! Can't wait to see the colored version

Clear skies
Marco

[DavidNg (David)]

Love the detail revealed in your system. Did you have to process much ?

Regards
David

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by marco

What a lovely close up Greg! Can't wait to see the colored version

Clear skies
Marco

Thanks Marco. I have taken another 3 hours or so of Ha. I took some RGB but I don't think its enough. So now I am waiting for the new moon to get the rgb.

Originally Posted by DavidNg

Love the detail revealed in your system. Did you have to process much ?

Regards
David

Hi David. This image has hardly any processing at all. Practically zip.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Hi David. This image has hardly any processing at all. Practically zip.

Greg.

Yeah same with the Ha in my version, ddp stretch, slight curve to return some brightness to the brightest parts of the curtain highlights and that was about it....ah the Horsehead...a crowd favourite..like (a very young) Pavarotti (check out 4min:15) of the skies.....

[DJT (David)]

Lovely image Greg. As I work my way through this field of runners it's only fair to say why..

The Framing. Spot on. Works very well.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah same with the Ha in my version, ddp stretch, slight curve to return some brightness to the brightest parts of the curtain highlights and that was about it....ah the Horsehead...a crowd favourite..like (a very young) Pavarotti (check out 4min:15) of the skies.....

The SX camera's low read noise can mean sometimes processing is very simple. If all cameras were that clean it would make astrophotography a whole lot easier.

Originally Posted by DJT

Lovely image Greg. As I work my way through this field of runners it's only fair to say why..

The Framing. Spot on. Works very well.

Thanks very much David. A nice compliment.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

The SX camera's low read noise can mean sometimes processing is very simple. If all cameras were that clean it would make astrophotography a whole lot easier

Yeah, yeah blah blah...but did you listen to Pav???

[gregbradley]

Yeah blah blah I did. Quite a powerful note there. I saw him live in Sydney about 6 years ago or so.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Yeah blah blah I did. Quite a powerful note there. I saw him live in Sydney about 6 years ago or so.

Greg.

Yeah me too, at the Super Dome in 1999 before the Olympics...ah sigh....what a voice

[tornado33]

I was commenting on Mike's Horsehead on how one can see the faint background galaxies above the Horsehead, and now I can see them in this image too. Just look for stars that look slightly diffuse. You used to need 2 or 3 metre class scope to capture those. Well done !