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17-05-2010, 12:33 PM
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Billions and Billions ...
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Leo Trio completed!
Here's my completed Leo Trio image (RGB added). And don't worry, it's a 'G' rated image ... there has been no artificial galaxy relocation done that could offend some viewers.  
Scan around the full res version to see the background galaxies present! Pretty happy with the resolution I achieved - I lucked out with the seeing (between 1 and 1.5 arcsecs) when I was gathering the Luminance data! Some minor cropping done for composition purposes.
To get an idea of scale, M65 (bottom) is approx 9.7 x 2.8 arcmins in size
Small:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/124610977/large
Large:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/124610977/original
Cheers, Marcus
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17-05-2010, 12:36 PM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Amazing image, Marcus! Incredible detail!
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17-05-2010, 12:39 PM
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what an optical extravaganza!! lovely!!
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17-05-2010, 12:55 PM
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Wow Marcus. You've done a cracker job!
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17-05-2010, 12:59 PM
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No More Infinities
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Marcus, what can I say, except fantastic shot!!! 
The details in the trio are exquisite. If you can get that with a 6" tak, I'd love to see what you'd do with a bigger scope, say a mid sized CDK or RCOS.
There's some weird ones amongst those background galaxies...some have pretty distorted shapes!!
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17-05-2010, 01:08 PM
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Now that's what I'm talkin' bout! Great field. A delight to browse around. Very nice colors and a lot of faint fuzzies picked up in the whole vista. Top stuff. 
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17-05-2010, 01:11 PM
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17-05-2010, 01:49 PM
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My God! Its full of stars
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Leo Triplet
Thats a wonderful image, well done. At least 9 thumbs and 1 chocolate nose (the ultimate accolade).
What did you use to get to F11.7?
Lars
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17-05-2010, 02:15 PM
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I have detailed files....
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Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!
Awesome, simply awesome.
Beautiful job Marcus,
Cheers
Chris
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17-05-2010, 02:15 PM
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Sensational image Marcus. I am amazed at the level of detail you have achieved.
Greg.
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17-05-2010, 02:18 PM
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wow. Brilliant. 
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17-05-2010, 02:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Amazing image, Marcus! Incredible detail!
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Hey thanks Mike! Aaah, if I could only get seeing that good all the time < sigh>
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
what an optical extravaganza!! lovely!!
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Thanks Dave.
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
Wow Marcus. You've done a cracker job!
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Thanks jjj! Very glad you liked it!
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Marcus, what can I say, except fantastic shot!!!
The details in the trio are exquisite. If you can get that with a 6" tak, I'd love to see what you'd do with a bigger scope, say a mid sized CDK or RCOS.
There's some weird ones amongst those background galaxies...some have pretty distorted shapes!! |
Aaah yes, an RCOS or CDK ... I confess I do get a bit of the fever sometimes!
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Now that's what I'm talkin' bout! Great field. A delight to browse around. Very nice colors and a lot of faint fuzzies picked up in the whole vista. Top stuff. |
Thanks Marc - glad you liked it! (Pssst ... I also did an artificial field version ... I can post it if you like.  )
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
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Originally Posted by lhansen
Thats a wonderful image, well done. At least 9 thumbs and 1 chocolate nose (the ultimate accolade).
What did you use to get to F11.7?
Lars
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Thanks Lars - I use the Tak TOA 1.6 extender. It does vignette and doesn't yield a perfectly flat field, but nothing a bit of extra processing won't fix.
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Originally Posted by Screwdriverone
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!
Awesome, simply awesome.
Beautiful job Marcus,
Cheers
Chris
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Thanks a lot Chris! It's great to see an image get that sort of reaction!
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Sensational image Marcus. I am amazed at the level of detail you have achieved.
Greg.
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Gotta admit, I kind of surprised myself Thanks Greg!
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Originally Posted by rogerg
wow. Brilliant. |
Cheers Roger
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17-05-2010, 03:32 PM
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Highest Observatory in Oz
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Well, I don't think I have used this emoticon before but it's a good one for this effort Mark 
Looks pretty well perfect to me. Yeh, the seeing may have been good but you have nailed the resolution processing on this one for sure, congratulations
Mike
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17-05-2010, 03:35 PM
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Marc,
That's just about as good as it gets.
Absolutely fantastic!
H
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17-05-2010, 04:00 PM
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ze frogginator
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Thanks Marc - glad you liked it! (Pssst ... I also did an artificial field version ... I can post it if you like. ) |
As long as it's green it's ok.
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17-05-2010, 05:01 PM
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17-05-2010, 05:34 PM
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sword collector
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Sooooo where did you hide the hubble again??????????
Top image and stunning processing 
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17-05-2010, 05:48 PM
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Billions and Billions ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Well, I don't think I have used this emoticon before but it's a good one for this effort Mark
Looks pretty well perfect to me. Yeh, the seeing may have been good but you have nailed the resolution processing on this one for sure, congratulations
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Thanks mate - high praise indeed!!
Congrats on the three glass bricks from SPSP too!! Well done!
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Originally Posted by Octane
Marc,
That's just about as good as it gets.
Absolutely fantastic!
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Cheers Humayun. Glad you liked it! I think I'l be hard pressed to get any more res out of the 150 though. But I'll keep trying!
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Originally Posted by multiweb
As long as it's green it's ok. |
Nah, that would spoil a perfectly good astroimage
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Originally Posted by Enrique
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Thanks Enrique!!
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Originally Posted by mill
Sooooo where did you hide the hubble again??????????
Top image and stunning processing |
Hehehe, thanks Martin but I'd be perfectly happy to be compared to, say, a 20" RC . BTW did you see the partial hubble image of M66 here?
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17-05-2010, 06:02 PM
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Fantastic image Marcus, thanks for the view.
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17-05-2010, 06:09 PM
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Narrowfield rules!
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bleeding awesome
(and its not a "compressed" view, right? )
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