Managed to bag a fair amount of subs last night. This is 24x5min on the edge of the LMC + some smaller subs for the cores of various Ha regions that burned too quick. Dynamic range is pretty big across the whole field. Some of the arches are very faint and some nebulae are very bright. The bottom left glow is in the direction of the core of the LMC, the right is further Ha regions. Definitely going to mosaic around it when the moon's gone as it is a bit hard to extract anything too close to the sky count.
There's a bigger version here on my gallery.
Thanks for looking.
Looks good Marc, Its got lots to look at in this image. Mosaic will be very nice and very big. Look forward to seeing the final product.
It doesn't look good for some OIII for me tonight.
Looks good Marc, Its got lots to look at in this image. Mosaic will be very nice and very big. Look forward to seeing the final product.
It doesn't look good for some OIII for me tonight.
Thanks Doug. I saw a shot made by J.Gleason of the LMC in Ha. Long way to go still but there's heaps to dig out in there. I can't do Oiii from home especially when the moon is up. I find LP does affect Oiii more than Ha.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Hey, what's with the negative view everyone is showing now .. looks way too impressive and rather detailed and the faint stuff stands out too well
UK Marc Schmidt
Thanks Mike. Somebody started the inverted trend... might do an inverted M8 now?
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Very nice detail in the High Res Marc with no core burnout - nice.
Mike, the negative version is God's eye view - from the outside looking in!!
Thanks Doug. Imaging from the otherside might sound like a good idea. No clouds to contend with.
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Just spent 15 minutes staring at the negative whilst eating dinner.
There's some really intricate striated nebulosity to the right that I've not seen before. Just gorgeous.
Bring on the mosaic!
H
Thanks H. Loads of faint Ha in there but I'll have to go deeper like 10-15min exposures and composite it all as the spider area will be well and truly cooked by then.
pretty cool stuff
well done
the inverted b/w does give it a completely different feel
frank
Thanks Frank. Yes there is a lot of very faint Ha fronts that seem concentric with the spider. Will have to push exposures to 15 to 20min under darker skies to get them clearly.
It's shaping up to be a really impressive image Marc. I've not seen such a wide field view of this before and there certainly is a lot to take in. I like the negative image - might have to try it too!
It's shaping up to be a really impressive image Marc. I've not seen such a wide field view of this before and there certainly is a lot to take in. I like the negative image - might have to try it too!
Excellent Marc, although you chopped off something there bottom right (mosiac will fix that) I like the composition included the bubble thing top right, would be interesting to zoom in on that, or quite a few things in the field actually. I think youve created an imageing plan image
Excellent Marc, although you chopped off something there bottom right (mosiac will fix that) I like the composition included the bubble thing top right, would be interesting to zoom in on that, or quite a few things in the field actually. I think youve created an imageing plan image
Thanks Fred. Yes plenty chopped around. Will mosaic next.
.. looks way too impressive and rather detailed and the faint stuff stands out too well 
....kidding Fred 
So... just to make sure, it's Mudgee right? 
