Tarantula region - a few different views

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Sorry to hear about your situation Mike, but youve always liked the Starfire (not too hard to set up without an Obs) and the FLI was a serious upgrade, so it aint all bad. Why not get into NB?, it would suit the skies your under now.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Sorry to hear about your situation Mike, but youve always liked the Starfire (not too hard to set up without an Obs) and the FLI was a serious upgrade, so it aint all bad. Why not get into NB?, it would suit the skies your under now.

Yes my sulking when looking at houses to buy in light polluted areas of Newcastle has already delivered me the permission to order a set of Astronomik narrow band filters ......I never really liked narrow band images (as you know) so I'm not totally enthused about it......

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yes my sulking when looking at houses to buy in light polluted areas of Newcastle has already delivered me the permission to order a set of Astronomik narrow band filters ......I never really liked narrow band images (as you know) so I'm not totally enthused about it......

well thats why I really appreciate goingto dark sky sites Mike, but narrowband imaging is better than nothing? I take it you have not settled on a house yet?

[Ric]

Hi Mike, a lovely image to get back into the game again, I loved the colour and detail.

If it's any consolation the weather down here hasn't been much better for the last five months.

Cheers

[Garyh]

Now I know why you have been quiet lately Mike!...
Getting ready to blow our socks off with this gorgeous image. Beautiful colors and those stars are tight as a fishes... , well you know what I mean..
cheers Gary

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

well thats why I really appreciate goingto dark sky sites Mike, but narrowband imaging is better than nothing? I take it you have not settled on a house yet?

Hello fellow big guy

Yes I guess if I can have the filters may as well get'em..? Dark sky site would be good again though .

Looked at a couple of places since talking with you, currently serious about a house in Valentine up on the hill in Andrew Rd, open back yard with a 10m inground pool. One street light with cover missing visible from backyard over the back fence and neighbour, also with a pool, has a flood light directed over his entertaining area aaaaand toward our potential backyard DOH! About 80% of the sky is visible though and it's a nice affordable place. I'm working on Ang to authorise a Sirius observatory now to protect me from any direct lighting problems. Valentine should be darkish I guess particularly to the south and southwest..?

Any whooo could be a completely different place next time we speak

Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Ric

Hi Mike, a lovely image to get back into the game again, I loved the colour and detail.

If it's any consolation the weather down here hasn't been much better for the last five months.

Cheers

Thanks Ric, yes I was happy with the final detail and blending, the seeing was good and Halpha always helps sharpen things, oh and a pretty good piece of glass helps too . The Tarantula is hard to process well and is often presented either too blue or too red even by the big name imagers (not that it really matters). There is plenty of magenta from the blue H-Beta and green from OIII in that hairy monster too.

Oh and nup! doesn't make me feel any better

Originally Posted by Garyh

Now I know why you have been quiet lately Mike!...
Getting ready to blow our socks off with this gorgeous image. Beautiful colors and those stars are tight as a fishes... , well you know what I mean..
cheers Gary

Halpha imaging provides tight R's stars for sure, thus in turn providing a good challenge when combining with RGB if you want to avoid nasty processing artifacts around stars, some of which are still present slightly in my closeup image version (and so graciously pointed out by Fred )

Cheers

Mike

[tornado33]

Great images there.
You should look for a place close to where you are now lol , as it is even more cloudy in Newcastle. Would you believe it was mostly cloudy in Newcastle city the night you took the images. I got about 2 hours of washed out skies through thin high cloud before thicker stuff came over.
Scott

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by tornado33

Great images there.
You should look for a place close to where you are now lol , as it is even more cloudy in Newcastle. Would you believe it was mostly cloudy in Newcastle city the night you took the images. I got about 2 hours of washed out skies through thin high cloud before thicker stuff came over.
Scott

Sigh.... tell me about it... I KNOW! As far as "my" needs and wants go, during the house hunting I have slowly capitulated down to just wanting some decent sky access. Seems simple huh? but noooo the houses with the good sky access (Newcastle has lots of trees) aren't nice and the nice houses have lots of bloody trees . The latest house in Valentine is up high on the hill with a bckyard with good sky access but (of course!!!) has a bloody street light nearby in view of the backyard. I will build an observatory to try and be ready for those short windows of oportunity that having a setup and pull down affair is not good for. The hosue has a nice inground pool though wish me luck at the auction

Mike