IC4606 Rho Ophiuchi

[DavidTrap (David)]

Thanks Allan,

Very happy with this combo. I've got to look at the field of view of my 50mm lens to see if that will take in entire constellations. I will also have to try with my 70-200mm lens, but that's going to require some metalwork to make a bracket. I've got some aluminium here to do it with, but I might leave it till my next weekend on call - gives me something to do while waiting for the phone to ring.

I'm slowly learning the ropes of PI. I'll never truly exploit it's abilities - not unless someone creates some coherent tutorials, or puts together a workshop.

DT

[bokglob (Darrell)]

That is awsome! What else can I say

[Martin Pugh]

Most impressed David. Tis a fine image indeed, and hooking up a camera lens to a cooled CCD camera is great fun. The lens, despite its apparent age, seems to have done a great job - is the image cropped at all?

Star colour also very good

cheers
Martin

[stardust steve (Steve)]

What a beauty. I opened the large image and was blown away. Zoomed in on the right hand side of the image and got lost in the field of stars

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great, my favorite area of the whole sky. You captured it excellently!

[DavidTrap (David)]

Thanks Gents,

Martin - the lens still works fine with my new D800. Bless Nikon for maintaining backwards compatibility. The field is uncropped. Certainly a less stressful evening shooting at 85mm vs 1800mm

DT

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

That's a great image of this beautiful piece of sky, and as a bonus you got 6 globular clusters in one shot!
Very nice smooth processing and the colours are just perfect. Thanks for the view.

[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by DavidTrap

Thanks Allan,

Very happy with this combo. I've got to look at the field of view of my 50mm lens to see if that will take in entire constellations. I will also have to try with my 70-200mm lens, but that's going to require some metalwork to make a bracket. I've got some aluminium here to do it with, but I might leave it till my next weekend on call - gives me something to do while waiting for the phone to ring.

I'm slowly learning the ropes of PI. I'll never truly exploit it's abilities - not unless someone creates some coherent tutorials, or puts together a workshop.

DT

Troy had suggested a physical get together (and I didn't make much effort at Astrofest must confess ). Perhaps a thread here where we could list our typical workflows. It more like a computer language sometimes than a recipe processing. PI forum has some interesting threads where people say how they arrived at final image (photo comp pages?).

[Tandum (Robin)]

Nice image dave, you got it nailed there, pity about all the diffraction spikes

[naskies (Dave)]

Again, well done! Hope to see your rendition of the Blue Horsehead if there's time left this season.

-5 deg... brrr! I've only experienced Leyburn down to -4 deg... my DSLR is remarkably low-noise at those temps.

[DavidTrap (David)]

Thanks Robin - the diffraction spikes are a "Nikon thing", so not all will understand (apologies to Jeep for stealing their line!)

Dave - it certainly was cold. I bought an oil column heater for the caravan and left the generator running until I went to bed - must be getting soft!

DT

[Octane (Humayun)]

That's beautiful. You're making me jealous -- I have to wait until next year to try and finish mine.

H

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Fantastic David !!!

Leo

[DavidTrap (David)]

Thanks H and Leo

I have vague recollections you have been doing one H - the weather has been trying!!

DT

[Paul Haese]

Nice work David. I have been sorting this particular issue myself with a 683 face plate and Nikon adapter. I am planning to use either the 85 I have or a 135 f2 lens. I would be interested in the focusor chap if you would care to leave a link or PM me his contact details.

Lovely image with nice round stars and excellent saturation.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Now that's a really nice image David. Well done!

Steve

[RobF (Rob)]

I keep coming back to the big jpg of this - I love the 18 spike diffraction pattern on the stars and general clarity and colour. At risk of upsetting someone I really don't think I can remember a better rendition from those of us "north of the border". Stunning pic.

[DJT (David)]

Fantastic image.saturation works for me, well done

[DavidTrap (David)]

Thanks Steve, David & Rob (again!)

Paul - the focuser is a Walter Lee Helifocus. Just be well aware his lead time may be long. Do you have the 135DC lens??

DT

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Nicely done.