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03-09-2015, 06:54 AM
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Billions and Billions ...
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Excellent! 
Overcooked? Nup, Looks good to me! Very impressive details actually Mike! you must have had some good seeing!
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03-09-2015, 07:38 AM
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Narrowing the band
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Delicious!
I can see the purple eye (and it can see me), but it also looks like a watch with a watch-band, minute-hand, and knobs.
Very sharp.
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03-09-2015, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Excellent!
Overcooked? Nup, Looks good to me! Very impressive details actually Mike! you must have had some good seeing! |
Not sure overcooking was suggested  Dunk is just a fellow comedian of aaaalmost similar quality to myself  but thanks for your assurance Marcus Jucarkis  I haven't noticed the seeing being particularly any better than usual but I certainly seem to have relatively few nights of obviously poor seeing here though...and bloody miles better than my last site in Newcastle when I started using the AG12, that's for sure!
Mike
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03-09-2015, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Delicious!
I can see the purple eye (and it can see me), but it also looks like a watch with a watch-band, minute-hand, and knobs.
Very sharp.
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Thanks Mikey (or was that Trishy )
Mike
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03-09-2015, 10:15 AM
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My God it's full of stars
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As Spock would say, Fascinating!
Very cool to see something new Mike - well done 
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03-09-2015, 11:29 AM
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Awesome....my favorite colours!!
Very well captured Mike!
Cheers,
Tim
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03-09-2015, 12:47 PM
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I want to eat it.
Nice.
H
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03-09-2015, 12:51 PM
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Yep - nicely done Mike. I like your planetary nebula images.
Cheers
Steve
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03-09-2015, 04:05 PM
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Thanks Andy, Tim, H and Steve, she is a little beauty
Mike
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03-09-2015, 04:14 PM
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ze frogginator
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
There are so many amazing little PN's out there that tend to just fly under the Lagoon Nebula radar  (nothing against the Lagoon Marc it is a lovely Puce coloured nebula) |
It has some really cool colors and features. Will definitely give it a go with the C11 at prime. Should be a nice FOV for it. If the gravitational pull of the hourglass doesn't steer me off course.
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03-09-2015, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by multiweb
It has some really cool colors and features. Will definitely give it a go with the C11 at prime. Should be a nice FOV for it. If the gravitational pull of the hourglass doesn't steer me off course.
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Mate, you don't have to just do this one, there are dozens and dozens of great targets very similar out there, the number of pretty PN's around 1' to 3' in size is quite high. On my planetarium program I have spent some time clicking on the PN and galaxy icons on the star maps and reading/looking for suitable targets, plus check out Sakib Rasool's Starsurfing site for some ideas, it's great
Mike
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03-09-2015, 05:10 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Originally Posted by Octane
I want to eat it.
Nice.
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I think you would have a little gas afterwards (BADA BING!)
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03-09-2015, 05:56 PM
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ze frogginator
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Mate, you don't have to just do this one, there are dozens and dozens of great targets very similar out there, the number of pretty PN's around 1' to 3' in size is quite high. On my planetarium program I have spent some time clicking on the PN and galaxy icons on the star maps and reading/looking for suitable targets, plus check out Sakib Rasool's Starsurfing site for some ideas, it's great
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I just bookmark your threads this stuff requires good seeing though. I don't know how it's been in Canberra but obviously a lot better than in Sydney looking at the clarity of your pics and their stellar profiles.
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03-09-2015, 06:00 PM
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I just bookmark your threads
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What the one's you don't actually read...? 
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this stuff requires good seeing though. I don't know how it's been in Canberra but obviously a lot better than in Sydney looking at the clarity of your pics and their stellar profiles.
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True, seeing is obviously important as is image scale and decent optics of course
Mike
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03-09-2015, 06:17 PM
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ze frogginator
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
What the one's you don't actually read...?
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Yup. It's like FOXTEL. read later when it rains.
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03-09-2015, 08:34 PM
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I love it way better than Don's version.
Planetary nebula's are my favorite by far!
Specially these little rarely imaged obscurities.
Thanks for sharing Mike
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03-09-2015, 08:40 PM
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Mike was also just wondering how you roughly went about blending in your HA and OIII data. 
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03-09-2015, 08:57 PM
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Another out of left field beauty Mike. Nicely processed and not at all what I was expecting. I have seen this object through the 12 inch dob a couple of times a few years ago with the LVW 5mm and it looks like a little smoke ring through the eyepiece. Thanks for showing the hidden side.
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03-09-2015, 10:13 PM
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Mostly harmless...
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Looks like something out of Tron to me?
Kudos for educating us Mike - haven't seen that one before. Great pic.
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03-09-2015, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Flugel88
I love it way better than Don's version.
Planetary nebula's are my favorite by far!
Specially these little rarely imaged obscurities.
Thanks for sharing Mike |
Well, thanks for the sentiment but while surprisingly very close, when our full res images are directly compared side by side in the same orientation (which I did) and all aspects are considered, the 20" image is slightly superior overall.
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Originally Posted by Flugel88
Mike was also just wondering how you roughly went about blending in your HA and OIII data. |
Well, roughly, it is a HaOIIIOIII blend with RGB stars pasted in and RGB blended to help colour the Ha background and NGC 6337 itself
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Originally Posted by Rex
Another out of left field beauty Mike. Nicely processed and not at all what I was expecting. I have seen this object through the 12 inch dob a couple of times a few years ago with the LVW 5mm and it looks like a little smoke ring through the eyepiece. Thanks for showing the hidden side.
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Cheers Rex, it's always great to compare visual and imaged appearances, if the scope is big enough the difference can often only be the lack of colour in the visual view. I had the pleasure of using a 24" F3.5 dob at SPSP a couple of years ago for several hours and I was amazed at the details visible through the 24" on so many objects. I have a great memory for many objects and how they look in an image and I can tell you, with only a few exceptions, the 24 inch under truly dark skies was showing pretty much everything that appeared in most images I'd taken through 3", 5", 6" and 12" scopes over the years, just without the colour
Mike
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