My best ever Corona Australis, new data & repro.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Quite excited with this image!.

It's a result of some mods I made to my 8" astrograph, it's certainly made a difference with the amount of detail I'm getting.

I've nearly eliminated flexure in the optical system and have quite accurate optical alignment.
Certainly way better than I've ever had before!!

Stars are quite small now but still not perfect, I think this due to guiding.
Another polar alignment and a final tweak with the guiding and it should be humming.

I've supplied a crop as well to show the detail.
Also a link to a previous image to show the difference.
http://i1172.photobucket.com/albums/.../TYCrabest.jpg


8" F/4 astrograph HEQ pro 5 mount. Orion mini guider.

Unmodded canon 1100D, baader type III coma corrector.

30 x 5 minute subs, ISO 1600 and 5 x 2 minutes ISO 800'

Stacked in DSS, processed in PS7.

Cheers,

Justin.

[DJT (David)]

These are excellent. Great framing and the capture and processing are well done.

Nice one

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's truly awesome Justin!

Can I have your dark skies?

[astronobob (Bob)]

Well Thats gotta be your best ever Corona Australis, to Date Justin
Check the Diff out, wooh ! Quality workmanship in all aspects indeed, can see why your excited Its a ripper , well Done man

[xelasnave]

You should be happy
Good work
Hard to criticise miniscule trailing.
I think you will work hard to improve upon
Best wishes for next one

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's excellent. I think you can safely boost the saturation right up.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wonderful result Justin!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Excellent work, Justin!

[RickS (Rick)]

Well done, Justin. Perhaps a little dark? I'm sure you can squeeze a bit more out of it.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Well, looks like the clouds have left SA.

Fine result Justin, you've bought out the dust nicely there.

Well done

[Regulus (Trevor)]

No wonder your quite excited Justin, they are excellent!

[gregbradley]

Very nice Justin.

Greg.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

That's truly awesome Justin!

Can I have your dark skies?

Thanks Kevin!

Yep no worries, as long as you take the cold temps too!

Originally Posted by astronobob

Well Thats gotta be your best ever Corona Australis, to Date Justin
Check the Diff out, wooh ! Quality workmanship in all aspects indeed, can see why your excited Its a ripper , well Done man

Thanks Bob!

The real test will be galaxies.
Hopefully pick up more detail on these too.

Originally Posted by xelasnave

You should be happy
Good work
Hard to criticise miniscule trailing.
I think you will work hard to improve upon
Best wishes for next one

Thanks Alexander!

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's excellent. I think you can safely boost the saturation right up.

Thanks Marc!

Yep, I'll do a repro.

Originally Posted by RB

Wonderful result Justin!

Thanks RB!

Originally Posted by Larryp

Excellent work, Justin!

Thanks Laurie!

How's the ankle going?

Originally Posted by RickS

Well done, Justin. Perhaps a little dark? I'm sure you can squeeze a bit more out of it.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick!

Yep, will post the repro.
I've been playing around and even though there's good data it's quite difficult to push it much further without it looking overdone.

Originally Posted by Rod771

Well, looks like the clouds have left SA.

Fine result Justin, you've bought out the dust nicely there.

Well done

Thanks Rod!

Clouds are back unfortunately , certainly need to make the most of every opportunity at the moment.

Originally Posted by Regulus

No wonder your quite excited Justin, they are excellent!

Thanks Trevor!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Justin.

Greg.

Thanks Greg!

Originally Posted by DJT

These are excellent. Great framing and the capture and processing are well done.

Nice one

Thanks David!

Looking forward to re-imaging more favourites now the scope is working well.

Cheers,

Justin.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi,

Here's a repro of the Corona Australis complex.

A little more colours saturation, brightness and contrast as suggested by Marc and Rick.

I did a dozen different versions but I think this one is best?

Cheers,

Justin.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah looks really good Justin, subtle, nice work

Mike

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah looks really good Justin, subtle, nice work

Mike

Thanks Mike!

Cheers,

Justin.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

The repo is nice. I'm always wondering how much colour to give it.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

The repo is nice. I'm always wondering how much colour to give it.

Corona Australis seems to be a little more difficult to get the colour balance right.

Cheers,

Justin.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

very nice Justin, definitely one of my favourite areas of the sky. i really like the repro, i hope to get my system up and running soon i would be very happy to get something anywhere near what you have achieved here.

cheers

rusty

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

very nice Justin, definitely one of my favourite areas of the sky. i really like the repro, i hope to get my system up and running soon i would be very happy to get something anywhere near what you have achieved here.

cheers

rusty

Thanks Rusty!

What setup will you be running?
Look forward to your result.

Cheers,

Justin.