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[Tom Davis (Tom)]

This is a nicely shaped dark nebula in Cepheus. It hasn't been imaged much.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astr...s-1_0000e9.htm

-Tom

[Octane (Humayun)]

Cepheus is full of awesome.

An excellent image, yet again.

H

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shot, Tom

Some of the sparser parts of the neb have a very slight greenish tinge to them, most likely result of some faint reflection and light coming through the dust from background stars.

[leon]

Have to agree, beautifully captured.

Leon

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great shot Tom with your trademark processing. Superb.
Reminds me a bit of the hand of god that Mike imaged a while ago.

[desler]

Wow Tom, Not much to say but inspirational.

Darren

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Cepheus is full of awesome.

An excellent image, yet again.

H

Thanks H!

Originally Posted by renormalised

Nice shot, Tom

Some of the sparser parts of the neb have a very slight greenish tinge to them, most likely result of some faint reflection and light coming through the dust from background stars.

This greenish tinge that you mention is the bane of dust processing. In my dust processing I try to achieve coloration of the dust based on G2V calibration. I could reduce the saturation until there was no color, or at least very little, but that is not the look that I am trying for.

Originally Posted by leon

Have to agree, beautifully captured.

Leon

Thanks Leon!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great shot Tom with your trademark processing. Superb.
Reminds me a bit of the hand of god that Mike imaged a while ago.

Thanks Marc!

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by desler

Wow Tom, Not much to say but inspirational.

Darren

Thanks Darren.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Hmmm .... Just more typical Tom Davis shots









BRILLLIANT

[Lester]

Wonderful view Tom, thanks.

[Paul Haese]

You know Tom each time I open one of your images I feel like a kid walking into the lolly shop (candy store). I know I am in for a treat but I just don't know what I am going to get.

Your images have inspired me to do more and more dust busting myself. Working on several projects at present, but I can only dare to dream of having all my images look as good as yours in the years to come.

Wonderful image once again. Superb.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

I agree with Paulie except I alwyas think there is a good chance it will be dusty

Mike

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Hmmm .... Just more typical Tom Davis shots

BRILLLIANT

Thanks mate.

Originally Posted by Lester

Wonderful view Tom, thanks.

Thanks Lester.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

You know Tom each time I open one of your images I feel like a kid walking into the lolly shop (candy store). I know I am in for a treat but I just don't know what I am going to get.

Your images have inspired me to do more and more dust busting myself. Working on several projects at present, but I can only dare to dream of having all my images look as good as yours in the years to come.

Wonderful image once again. Superb.

Thanks Paul. I appreciate your kind words. I never thought of my images as inspiring, just sort of unusual -- off the beaten tract. When I set up to process an image I try to get as much out of the data as reasonably possible. Sometimes that approach works and sometimes it doesn't. I just keep trying!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I agree with Paulie except I alwyas think there is a good chance it will be dusty

Mike

Dusty is the besty!!!

[gregbradley]

That's a beauty. You always get your star colours just perfect and the stars always are fascinating all by themselves in your images.

It'd be great if you did a tutorial type writeup for this site on how you accomplish that as I think most astrophotographers would be very interested.

I like the FSQ and RHA combo. No diffractions spikes and you have those wonderful refractor type stars yet the fast F ratio and large aperture of the RHA and the sharpness of the FSQ.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I like the FSQ and RHA combo. No diffractions spikes and you have those wonderful refractor type stars yet the fast F ratio and large aperture of the RHA and the sharpness of the FSQ.

Greg.

Yep - imaging heaven

Although diffraction spikes can make many images look pretty cool though

Mike

[TrevorW]

Nice image Tom you keep raising the bar

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a beauty. You always get your star colours just perfect and the stars always are fascinating all by themselves in your images.

It'd be great if you did a tutorial type writeup for this site on how you accomplish that as I think most astrophotographers would be very interested.

I like the FSQ and RHA combo. No diffractions spikes and you have those wonderful refractor type stars yet the fast F ratio and large aperture of the RHA and the sharpness of the FSQ.

Greg.

I am not sure what I do that is any different than anyone else. Maybe you guys can invite me down to present at a conference and then I can process an image in real time. That way you could see what I do.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yep - imaging heaven

Although diffraction spikes can make many images look pretty cool though

Mike

Agreed. Especially for open clusters --spikes are the way to go with them.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Nice image Tom you keep raising the bar

Thanks Trevor.

[richardo (Rich)]

Lovely job Tom.
The Riccardi Honders looks to be a very well designed scope and is producing some excellent images for you of late in combo with your Taka images.

More dust please!

Rich

[Ross G]

Amazing photo Tom.

Every time you post, I learn of a new object in the sky.


Thanks.


Ross.