The Small Magellanic Cloud

[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Excellent Jase, sharp as, but FAR to many pin point stars, punk,

Awww common Fred, you spoil all the fun. I'd be doing something seriously wrong if I couldn't achieve pin point stars with a 3.5 arcsec/pixel combination. Thanks for checking it out.

[theodog (Jeff)]

Originally Posted by jase

I took a total of 72 subs, but didn't use all of them. There was some interesting items in some of them such as this raw 10min blue filtered sub (attached). Quite a few cosmic ray hits, but these are the norm. No discoveries, but I encourage those doing any imaging work to thoroughly check your subs. I do this anyway to determine the quality of each frame and whether I'll include it in the combine function.

Good idea Jase. Apart from checking for quality I always(nearly) blink first and last subs, especially if they are taken over a long period just to see if anything has moved. Nothing new yet but you never know.
Cheers

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

beautiful smc jase. you even managed to capture the small nebs around the outer area. colours are superb also.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Jase,

I haven't replied to your post because there's not much point - what'm I going to say - "great shot!" well that's blatantly obvious ain't it but hey, for the sake of you knowing I looked at it and panned around the stars to see what interesting detail and clumps of rarely seen nebulosity there is, and enjoyed it ... great shot!

[RB (Andrew)]

There's a couple of stars missing in the SMC but apart from that, not a bad effort really.
Keep at it son, you'll get there.........




Of course, this is a superb image mate, well done indeed and thanks for sharing with us.

[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by theodog

Good idea Jase. Apart from checking for quality I always(nearly) blink first and last subs, especially if they are taken over a long period just to see if anything has moved. Nothing new yet but you never know.
Cheers

Totally concur Jeff. Just never know what will come up in the field of view. It makes it a little easier if your camera pushes the images out in FITS format as the FIT header contains telescope pointing information, time etc. So you can simply send the info onto Cambridge post initial validation. It still takes a keen eye to verify the frames.

Originally Posted by EzyStyles

beautiful smc jase. you even managed to capture the small nebs around the outer area. colours are superb also.

Cheers Eric. The long exposures certainly attributed to bring out the fainter wisps of nebulosity. Thanks for checking it out.

Originally Posted by rogerg

Jase,

I haven't replied to your post because there's not much point - what'm I going to say - "great shot!" well that's blatantly obvious ain't it but hey, for the sake of you knowing I looked at it and panned around the stars to see what interesting detail and clumps of rarely seen nebulosity there is, and enjoyed it ... great shot!

Thanks Roger. Pleased you liked it and made comment. It provides encouragement to keep going. Thanks again!

Originally Posted by RB

There's a couple of stars missing in the SMC but apart from that, not a bad effort really.
Keep at it son, you'll get there.........

Of course, this is a superb image mate, well done indeed and thanks for sharing with us.

Thanks Andrew. Darn, you spotted those missing stars I cloned out Will do better next time. Cheers