Leo Trio completed! - Page 2

mill (Martin) · #21 17-05-2010, 07:10 PM

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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?

Whack another barlow on the Tak and you will have the same

Peter Ward · #22 17-05-2010, 07:30 PM

Way too good.

alexch (Alex) · #23 17-05-2010, 07:47 PM

Awesome! Just trying to lift my jaw from the floor

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #24 17-05-2010, 07:54 PM

Wow.. Doesnt get much better than that..

marc4darkskies (Marcus) · #25 17-05-2010, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Lester

Fantastic image Marcus, thanks for the view.

Thanks Lester!

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Originally Posted by Bassnut

bleeding awesome

(and its not a "compressed" view, right?

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Cheers Fred! Have I moved anything? Hmmmm ... what do you think??

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Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Way too good.

Thanks Peter. l was pretty lucky to score such good seeing in these parts but I knew the ol' Tak would come through if given the chance!

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Originally Posted by mill

Whack another barlow on the Tak and you will have the same

Hey, maybe some eyepiece projection and I can give "extreme closeup" Fred a run for his money!

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Originally Posted by alexch

Awesome! Just trying to lift my jaw from the floor

Cheers Alex!

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Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Wow.. Doesnt get much better than that..

Thanks for that ... and I think you may be right!

iceman (Mike) · #26 18-05-2010, 05:08 AM

This is now IOTW.

marc4darkskies (Marcus) · #27 18-05-2010, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by iceman

This is now IOTW.

Hey thanks a lot Mike!

jase (Jason) · #28 18-05-2010, 09:02 AM

Kudos Marcus. A lovely image in many regards. Well done.

renormalised (Carl) · #29 18-05-2010, 10:29 AM

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BTW did you see the partial hubble image of M66 here?

Marcus, we're all expecting your next shot of the trio to have this sort of resolution. Just make sure the night isn't cloudy

rcheshire (Rowland) · #30 18-05-2010, 03:31 PM

Sensational!

wysiwyg (Mark) · #31 18-05-2010, 03:35 PM

Stunning detail in that image, the best trplet image I have seen by far!
Great job!

Phil Hart · #32 18-05-2010, 09:00 PM

the high praise is well deserved.. this image definitely made my eyes pop!

unbelievable what 'amateurs' do these days!

richardo (Rich) · #33 18-05-2010, 09:41 PM

Was truly looking forward to the colour on your lum for these three lovely galaxies Marcus....
And, you didn't disappoint, at all!
Have to say this an absolutely superb image in all regards!
One of the best around.

Congratulations

Rich

marc4darkskies (Marcus) · #34 18-05-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jase

Kudos Marcus. A lovely image in many regards. Well done.

Thanks Jase!

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Originally Posted by renormalised

Marcus, we're all expecting your next shot of the trio to have this sort of resolution. Just make sure the night isn't cloudy

Yeah right! Wonder how much it costs for an hour or two on Hubble

I doubt I'd enjoy it though - just press a button and hey presto a diffraction limited image from a 2.4m mirror ... no challenge at all

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Originally Posted by rcheshire

Sensational!

Thanks Rowland

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Originally Posted by wysiwyg

Stunning detail in that image, the best trplet image I have seen by far!
Great job!

Cheers Mark, glad you think so. I have seen a couple though ... that get close

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Originally Posted by philiphart

the high praise is well deserved.. this image definitely made my eyes pop!

unbelievable what 'amateurs' do these days!

Thanks a lot Phil. Amateur images get better and better each year that's for sure! Hopefully, seeing what a modest aperture can do will spur others on to do better! That's certainly been the case for me.

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Originally Posted by richardo

Was truly looking forward to the colour on your lum for these three lovely galaxies Marcus....
And, you didn't disappoint, at all!
Have to say this an absolutely superb image in all regards!
One of the best around.

Congratulations

Rich

Thanks a lot Rich - glad you enjoyed it! It's very gratifying to get comments like this from folks for my humble efforts - much appreciated!

renormalised (Carl) · #35 19-05-2010, 11:23 AM

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Yeah right! Wonder how much it costs for an hour or two on Hubble

I doubt I'd enjoy it though - just press a button and hey presto a diffraction limited image from a 2.4m mirror ... no challenge at all

You used to be able to put in proposals from amateur astronomers for time on the Hubble. I don't think you can anymore. Pity...

White Rabbit · #36 19-05-2010, 08:36 PM

Super shot old chap.

tornado33 · #37 19-05-2010, 11:04 PM

Amazing detail from 6 inches of aperature, thats pushing the equipment to a very high limit with a great result. Most impressive.
Scott

malp (Malcolm) · #38 20-05-2010, 01:27 AM

Just seen this, wow, great capture and wonderful colours, well done.

Remus (Tom) · #39 20-05-2010, 12:30 PM

superb image Marcus. would have to be one of the best I've seen! jaw dropping!

Sman1971 (Shayne) · #40 20-05-2010, 01:09 PM

Beautiful!

But I would love you to translate what you said in plain english.

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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

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