The Southern Pleiades (IC 2602) in Carina

Octane (Humayun) · #1 26-01-2007, 03:51 PM

Hi all,

Got this beautiful cluster after imaging the Seagull Nebula.

Read and view here.

Warning: file is approximately 1.63 MB in size.

As always, comments and critique welcome.

Regards,
H

Diamond Rose · #2 27-01-2007, 02:59 PM

Cool pic of one of my fav clusters.

The richness of the starfield is amazing, but I find it distracts from the cluster somewhat. Overall, great pic, though.

~ Bruce

CoombellKid · #3 27-01-2007, 06:28 PM

Pitty I'm on bush dialup, anychance you can post a compressed version for here?

regards,CS

Rodstar (Rod) · #4 27-01-2007, 06:28 PM

I love that object, H. I have been looking at it quite a bit recently while I have been limited only to using the 80ED. As Bruce commented, the star field is something else! In one way, hard to see the forest for the trees!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #5 27-01-2007, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CoombellKid

Pitty I'm on bush dialup, anychance you can post a compressed version for here?

regards,CS

Ditto here as well. I average between 22 and 28 kbps.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #6 27-01-2007, 11:30 PM

WoW! Humayun, I never realised there are THAT MANY stars behind the Sthn Pleiades

My 12" shows lots, but that is LOT'S!

Excellent shot

Ric · #7 28-01-2007, 12:44 AM

Took a while to download but well worth it, fantastic image Humayun. What a rich starfield in that area.

Cheers

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #8 28-01-2007, 12:51 AM

I really like the look of that little orange star.

The one that is 4,512,903 stars in from the left and 1,689,421 up from the bottom

Ric · #9 28-01-2007, 01:07 AM

I must have missed that one Ken, I'll have another look

Cheers

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #10 28-01-2007, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Ric

I must have missed that one Ken, I'll have another look

Cheers

Just next to the little yellowish one, Ric.

I am still looking at Humayuns pic amazed by all the stars!!!!! I'm gonna have to get my 12" back on that cluster and see if I can pick up more of these background stars. Photography shows up more than our eye can see, but I'm gonna look anyway.

astroron (Ron) · #11 28-01-2007, 06:41 PM

Great Shot, as Carl Sagen is reputed to have said Billions and Billions of stars

atalas · #12 29-01-2007, 05:04 PM

Nice work again H !

EzyStyles (Eric) · #13 30-01-2007, 12:43 AM

veryyy nicee H!

acropolite (Phil) · #14 30-01-2007, 09:29 AM

Lovely Image Humayan.

rogerg (Roger) · #15 30-01-2007, 02:59 PM

Very nice shot. The thing I particularly like about it is the good colour balance - the contrast in colour that is visible.

Octane (Humayun) · #16 31-01-2007, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Diamond Rose

Cool pic of one of my fav clusters.
The richness of the starfield is amazing, but I find it distracts from the cluster somewhat. Overall, great pic, though.

~ Bruce

Bruce,

Thanks! I can understand what you're saying, but, I think I like it like that, just puts it all into perspective, somewhat.

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Originally Posted by CoombellKid

Pitty I'm on bush dialup, anychance you can post a compressed version for here?

regards,CS

Coombellkid,

I'll see if I can put up a low resolution image.

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Originally Posted by Rodstar

I love that object, H. I have been looking at it quite a bit recently while I have been limited only to using the 80ED. As Bruce commented, the star field is something else! In one way, hard to see the forest for the trees!

Rod,

It's a beauty, innit.

Once I've got my new equipment, I'll image it through the ED80 and see how it turns out.

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Ditto here as well. I average between 22 and 28 kbps.

jjjnettie,

As mentioned earlier, I'll put up a low resolution image, soon.

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

WoW! Humayun, I never realised there are THAT MANY stars behind the Sthn Pleiades

My 12" shows lots, but that is LOT'S!

Excellent shot

Ken,

Cheers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ric

Took a while to download but well worth it, fantastic image Humayun. What a rich starfield in that area.

Cheers

Ric,

Thanks, mate. It's a gorgeous region of the sky.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

I really like the look of that little orange star.

The one that is 4,512,903 stars in from the left and 1,689,421 up from the bottom

Haha!

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Originally Posted by astroron

Great Shot, as Carl Sagen is reputed to have said Billions and Billions of stars

astroron,

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by atalas

Nice work again H !

Louie,

Cheers, mate.

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Originally Posted by EzyStyles

veryyy nicee H!

Eric,

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by acropolite

Lovely Image Humayan.

Phil,

Cheers.

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Originally Posted by rogerg

Very nice shot. The thing I particularly like about it is the good colour balance - the contrast in colour that is visible.

Roger,

Thanks for the compliment, mate. Glad you liked it.

Regards,
Humayun

tornado33 · #17 01-02-2007, 10:01 PM

Gee those 1 hour in total shots sure go nice and deep. Well done again.
Scott

DobDobDob (Ron) · #18 03-02-2007, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

Hi all,

Got this beautiful cluster after imaging the Seagull Nebula.

Hi great shot, I was out that night also, in fact from Sydney it was the last good night we have had since then. Tonight looks promising Sat 3rd, keep your fingers crossed.

As a newbie I would like to offer these obvious observation as a result from viewing your image and that is this: taking a multi dimensional view and compressing it into just two dimensions (width and height), it rams home the point - to me anyway - that we have the sky all wrong, well not wrong but from our perspective only.

If we were observing the same coordinates from another galaxy it would look completely different, I know you guys all know this, but to me it is very revealing of how the whole thing hangs together. When seeing two stars say Sirius and Canopas they look the same magnitude to us here on earth, but I have read that Canopas is much larger but further away, thus they look the same size. This is amazing stuff for a newbie like me.

The other obvious point is that the constellations as we tend to draw them and name them are actually only that way from our perspective, could we navigate back home if we suddenly ended up on the other side of the universe, that is if there was a side, perhaps position is a better word.

This brings me to the part I have a little trouble with but trust will get easier as I clock up more hours, the RA and Dec coordinating system, I assume that the principles would work regardless of where in the universe you were assuming you could locate either of the celestial poles, is this right?

Octane (Humayun) · #19 05-02-2007, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tornado33

Gee those 1 hour in total shots sure go nice and deep. Well done again.
Scott

Hi Scott,

Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by tailwag

Hi great shot, I was out that night also, in fact from Sydney it was the last good night we have had since then. Tonight looks promising Sat 3rd, keep your fingers crossed.

tailwag,

Cheers!

Regards,
Humayun