Antares region

[Itchy]

Hi Guys
I feel as if I have been "out of it" for a while.
I had a stint in Hospital a month back and a couple of weeks recovering. Work has been overwhelming lately and we have taken delivery of two little time wasters:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/itchysastro/tallyweb.jpg
http://users.bigpond.net.au/itchysastro/saffyweb.jpg

I'm trying to train them as Astro dogs without much luck.

Anyhow, I managed to get one image out of the last month:

Antares region:
300D piggybacked on LXD55 SN10. 135mm Luminar at F5. 12x4min. Manually guided. Processed in IP and PS.

Comments welcome

Cheers

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Itchy. It has been a while. And what a comeback. Nice shot Tony! That intervening dust just looks like a cloud hanging in space. Very 3D, nice sharp stars. I like the iris diffraction spikes.

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

beautiful Tony. The colours looks great.

[Lester]

Good to see you back Tony,

Fantastic shot. Love the innocent look of the time wasters.

[h0ughy (David)]

love it, very noice! Pat on the back for that one

[RB (Andrew)]

Tony hope you're feeling better.
Love the two little time wasters.

Wow what an awesome image, beautiful cloud detail and colours and lens defraction spikes.

[TidaLpHasE]

Awsome image Tony, the detail is fantastic, really rich color.

Hope your'e feeling better, i know an image like that on the cmos would lift the spirits.

And it definately looks like those 2 little anklebiters will be a handfull, great pics of them too.

[tornado33]

yes hope youre feeling better, hope everything is okay.
Great colours in the image there, nicely framed too.
The doggies look good too
My cat and the neighbours one often keep me company at the telescope lol
Scott

[xelasnave]

Hi Tony sorry to hear you have not been well.
That is a wondeful capture .
And the voice of experience if you let the dogs around while capturing... dont be hasty to pull the mount down to find the new periodic error probably all you will need is a flea collar . My dogs sent me crazy until I found one under the mount (you dont notice in the dark they are all black) busy grooming itself .
alex