The Tarantula Nebula (NGC2070) in Dorado - Page 2

Octane (Humayun) · #21 30-07-2006, 11:18 PM

Hi Geoff,

I was actually pretty good this time, I shot some other stuff before NGC2070, but, that's for a little later.

Louie used to come up to Kulnura. He was one of the few who would stay til the sun came up, along with myself and Andrew.

Thanks for the compliment!

Regards,
Humayun

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Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl

Hi H
was about to gig you about your setup time when i saw the time you took the first pic - then i read down a bit further.
BUT - i still want to know how you find these people willing to stay up to the wee hours with you ? HE! HE!

great shot by the way

geoff

Octane (Humayun) · #22 30-07-2006, 11:57 PM

David,

You are far too kind.

What should I attempt next?

Regards,
Humayun

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Originally Posted by davidpretorius

you have absolutely floored me.

congratulations on a brilliant image.

Octane (Humayun) · #23 30-07-2006, 11:57 PM

Andrew,

Thanks, mate.

Funny thing is, this wasn't my equipiment! It was Louie (atalas)'s!

Cheers.

Regards,
Humayun

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Originally Posted by Astroman

nice shot Hummy, getting more proficient with your equipment I see, cant wait to start imaging with mine.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #24 31-07-2006, 01:03 AM

whatever colour it is or meant to be, I like it!

Top Shot Humayun, wide enough to take in the whole area too.

RB (Andrew) · #25 31-07-2006, 09:52 AM

Beautiful shot H,

It's a nice change to see it like this.
You've been bitten by the APO bug I see?

That's awesome equipment you got to use and I don't blame you for wanting a setup like that.

Well done.

TidaLpHasE · #26 31-07-2006, 11:29 AM

Awsome Humayun, i like the natural colors and what a widefield this is, fantastic.

It would be great to add more exposures of the surrounding LMC into a photostitch image, maybe even the SMC, now that would be wide.

I am envious of your imaging skills and dark sites

Octane (Humayun) · #27 31-07-2006, 11:55 AM

Ken,

I'm glad you like the image!

I have never even looked through a refractor before, let alone image through one, and I was pleasantly surprised.

I can see an ED80 for me, around the corner.

Regards,
Humayun

Quote:

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

whatever colour it is or meant to be, I like it!

Top Shot Humayun, wide enough to take in the whole area too.

Octane (Humayun) · #28 31-07-2006, 11:56 AM

Andrew,

Thanks for the kind words, mate.

I've definitely been bitten by a bug; whether it is for an apochromatic, a refractor, or the Losmandy mount, I don't know. But, I've been bitten.

Cheers.

Regards,
Humayun

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rocket Boy

Beautiful shot H,

It's a nice change to see it like this.
You've been bitten by the APO bug I see?

That's awesome equipment you got to use and I don't blame you for wanting a setup like that.

Well done.

Octane (Humayun) · #29 31-07-2006, 11:58 AM

Trevor,

I'm enjoying the natural colours, too. I just had a look at the image from my monitor at work, which only runs at 1280x1024, and the image looks quite nice! I'm so used to staring at my 1920x1200 (native) monitors on both the laptop and desktop panel. I guess that's a good thing, though; nothing looks right, and you keep working at it until it does. Then, when viewed on a lower resolution monitor, it just pops!

I like the idea of having a go at the entire surrounding area and building a mosaic. I'll see what I can do!

It's a pity that it isn't my dark sky; I drove about a hundred kilometres to chase them down.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Humayun

Quote:

Originally Posted by TidaLpHasE

Awsome Humayun, i like the natural colors and what a widefield this is, fantastic.

It would be great to add more exposures of the surrounding LMC into a photostitch image, maybe even the SMC, now that would be wide.

I am envious of your imaging skills and dark sites

Itchy · #30 01-08-2006, 07:16 AM

Hi Humayun

Very nice image.

The strange thing about the tarantula and unmodified cameras is that you get no red response at all. Other objects always display some red in them (eg lagoon) but the tarantula shows none. I haven't figured that out yet.
Interestingly you can get some red out of it by using a filter. Here is my tarantula with an unmodified camera and a Baader UHCs Nebula filter:

http://www.itchysastro.net/Tarantula20x3iso200Web.jpg

The same shot after considerable colour processing:

http://www.itchysastro.net/Tarantula...00ColCorlx.jpg

And my first attempt at it without a filter. No red at all.

http://www.itchysastro.net/tarantulaweb1.jpg

rogerg (Roger) · #31 01-08-2006, 11:25 AM

I've found this thread quite interesting. I gave 2070 a quick shot with my 350D (unmodified) one time, realised it was going to come out blue and gave up (lots of other things to image with the ST7). I wasn't sure if it was just my short exposures or what, so it's interesting to see other's attempts and the same blue result.

All the examples posted here are great - nice sharp images with good detail. I didn't quite get there with mine.

Roger.

EzyStyles (Eric) · #32 01-08-2006, 02:44 PM

thats a beautiful tarantula! keep it up

Octane (Humayun) · #33 02-08-2006, 05:26 PM

Tony,

Thanks for your compliment.

I was wondering to myself, why, even after a 2-minute sub-exposure there was no red, but just an overwhelming blue. I will have to try again some time with a UHC-S filter.

Thanks for posting your image; they've lovely as usual.

Regards,
Humayun

Quote:

Originally Posted by Itchy

Hi Humayun

Very nice image.

The strange thing about the tarantula and unmodified cameras is that you get no red response at all. Other objects always display some red in them (eg lagoon) but the tarantula shows none. I haven't figured that out yet.
Interestingly you can get some red out of it by using a filter. Here is my tarantula with an unmodified camera and a Baader UHCs Nebula filter:

http://www.itchysastro.net/Tarantula20x3iso200Web.jpg

The same shot after considerable colour processing:

http://www.itchysastro.net/Tarantula...00ColCorlx.jpg

And my first attempt at it without a filter. No red at all.

http://www.itchysastro.net/tarantulaweb1.jpg

Octane (Humayun) · #34 02-08-2006, 05:27 PM

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the heads up.

Regards,
Humayun

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogerg

I've found this thread quite interesting. I gave 2070 a quick shot with my 350D (unmodified) one time, realised it was going to come out blue and gave up (lots of other things to image with the ST7). I wasn't sure if it was just my short exposures or what, so it's interesting to see other's attempts and the same blue result.

All the examples posted here are great - nice sharp images with good detail. I didn't quite get there with mine.

Roger.

Octane (Humayun) · #35 02-08-2006, 05:27 PM

Hi Eric (The Imaging Machine),

Thanks for the kind words.

Regards,
Humayun

Quote:

Originally Posted by EzyStyles

thats a beautiful tarantula! keep it up