The Grus Quartet and thousands of distant galaxies! - Page 2

Ric · #21 20-08-2009, 11:02 AM

Excellent image Mike, those galaxies certainly jump out and grab you by the boo boo.

Cheers

Paul Haese · #22 20-08-2009, 11:09 AM

Great image mate. Colour is great, the galaxies are so bright and really stand out against the sky background. Superb work.

Bassnut (Fred) · #23 20-08-2009, 11:50 AM

Yes, those galaxys really stand out (without much processing it seems), excellent work Mike.

rogerg (Roger) · #24 20-08-2009, 12:48 PM

Stunning, absolutely brilliant

tornado33 · #25 20-08-2009, 04:28 PM

I really like the processing, it looks very "natural" not over cooked or artificially smoothed. It looks as if every bit of data was bought to light without loss or distortion.
Scott

strongmanmike (Michael) · #26 20-08-2009, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

A positively yummy image Mike

- the up close version is a smorgasbord of tid bits!

Cheers, Marcus

THanks Marcus

I love fields rich in distant galaxies particularly if nearer objects are in the forground, it really puts an astro pic in perspective unlike any nebula shot can do no matter how spectacularly colourful it is. Incidentaly a lovely colourful nebula has won the amateur deep sky category at the DM's every year so far, hmmm? I recon your 4945 should have taken the top prize

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Originally Posted by Ric

Excellent image Mike, those galaxies certainly jump out and grab you by the boo boo.

Cheers

Boo boo

ouch

Cheers Ric

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Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Great image mate. Colour is great, the galaxies are so bright and really stand out against the sky background. Superb work.

Yes this image came together better than expected, like a good spag bol sauce, every image result is a bit different no matter how close you try to stick to a recipe

... the jump out at ya look was a nice bonus, a bit or Oregano may have been the trick though?

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Originally Posted by Bassnut

Yes, those galaxys really stand out (without much processing it seems), excellent work Mike.

Yes I think my usual processing routine is much less complicated than a lot of other imagers..? I like to keep an image from looking processed, I don't always get it spot on but I try

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Originally Posted by rogerg

Stunning, absolutely brilliant

Thanks Rog, knew you'd like it being a galaxy man

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Originally Posted by tornado33

I really like the processing, it looks very "natural" not over cooked or artificially smoothed. It looks as if every bit of data was bought to light without loss or distortion.
Scott

Cheers Scotty as I said to Fred above getting a natural look is usually my goal but it is often hard to do 100%. having said that unnatural images can still "look" cool if the image accentuates some feature or other. Your comment on the smoothing is on the money, to me smoothing is used way too much by many people and the image ends up looking plastic and more like science fiction art than photography..?

CometGuy · #27 20-08-2009, 06:40 PM

Mike,

A big

from me!

Great to see a detailed image of this part of the sky.

Terry

RB (Andrew) · #28 20-08-2009, 07:28 PM

Absolutely stunning Mike !!
The galaxies are just glowing with colour and detail.
I love the results a fine refractor can yield and in the hands of someone like you the results are breathtaking.

Top stuff mate.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #29 20-08-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by CometGuy

Mike,

A big

from me!

Great to see a detailed image of this part of the sky.

Terry

Cheers Terry

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Originally Posted by RB

Absolutely stunning Mike !!
The galaxies are just glowing with colour and detail.
I love the results a fine refractor can yield and in the hands of someone like you the results are breathtaking.

Top stuff mate.

I think the AP could shine in anyones hands it's a real piece of work, everytime I see what it can do I stop fretting about not having a bigger scope. I used to be a diffraction spike lover but I'm not so sure now..?

Mike
err?..I'd still like a 14" F3.6 astrograph though

danielsun · #30 20-08-2009, 11:25 PM

Stunning Mike,

The ultra deep galaxy's are incredible, would be interesting to know what magnitude the are.

Cheers Daniel.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #31 21-08-2009, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by danielsun

Stunning Mike,

The ultra deep galaxy's are incredible, would be interesting to know what magnitude the are.

Cheers Daniel.

Glad you enjoyed it Daniel

Here is a crop showing Galaxy Cluster Abell 1111 with the magnitudes of two of the brightest of the faint fuzzies marked, just to give you an idea:

http://upload.pbase.com/strongmanmik...53840/original

The faintest galaxies would be well below Mag20

Mike

danielsun · #32 21-08-2009, 01:25 AM

Not wrong Mike!!

strongmanmike (Michael) · #33 25-08-2009, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by danielsun

Stunning Mike,

The ultra deep galaxy's are incredible, would be interesting to know what magnitude the are.

Cheers Daniel.

Actually Dan, Terry ran a bit if the image through Astrometrica and it showed mag 20.5 bits

Cool huh?

Mike

atalas · #34 26-08-2009, 05:33 PM

Wow! great and deep....what's the magenta doing in the stars dude?

scopemankit (Chris) · #35 26-08-2009, 06:52 PM

Beautiful image. There must be 100 or more galaxies in that area!!

Octane (Humayun) · #36 26-08-2009, 07:29 PM

Mike,

Fantastic work.

I simply love all that intricate detail (pinks) in the (mainly) blue spiral arms.

Unfortunately, I went over my data allowance so can't view the larger version until it is reset. It's OK, though, as I have your heavenly bodies bookmarked -- it's my portal to Mike's world and I visit regularly.

+1 with Louie's comment, though. Anyway, I don't think it detracts too much from the image.

Well done, dude!

Regards,
Humayun

Hagar (Doug) · #37 26-08-2009, 09:22 PM

Magnificent detail in the main galaxies but the hundreds of others just jump ou to say HELLO.
Beautiful Mike.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #38 26-08-2009, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by atalas

Wow! great and deep....what's the magenta doing in the stars dude?

Dunno Louie, some of you guys just see things in my images that I ..well..don't..?..I must be going

glad you like the image though

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Originally Posted by scopemankit

Beautiful image. There must be 100 or more galaxies in that area!!

Thanks Chris
Probably need at least one more zero after that 100 though

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Originally Posted by Octane

Mike,

Fantastic work.

I simply love all that intricate detail (pinks) in the (mainly) blue spiral arms.

Unfortunately, I went over my data allowance so can't view the larger version until it is reset. It's OK, though, as I have your heavenly bodies bookmarked -- it's my portal to Mike's world and I visit regularly.

+1 with Louie's comment, though. Anyway, I don't think it detracts too much from the image.

Well done, dude!

Regards,
Humayun

Yes the seeing on both nights was better than average at times for a change Humvee

Ah yes the European Heavenly bodies image, one of my favourites too

Re the magenta in the stars, I don't really see it but I'm not disputing it isn't there...I just can't taste it

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Originally Posted by Hagar

Magnificent detail in the main galaxies but the hundreds of others just jump ou to say HELLO.
Beautiful Mike.

Cheers Doug, I did half the capture with the chip in one orientation and the other half of the image run with the chip rotated about 60deg so I had to crop a lot off, given the image goes to at least mag 20.5, the uncropped full frame image would have had literally 1000's of galaxies detactable I am sure.

glenc (Glen) · #39 27-08-2009, 10:02 AM

That is a fantastic image. The faint galaxies starting from the top left are LEDA 95174, LEDA 95173, PGC 71042 and PGC 71043.
Their mags are 16.1, 16.3, 14.7 & 14.7 respectively according to Guide 8. Your image shows them as mag 16.4, 16.0, x & 14.5

PeterM · #40 27-08-2009, 01:12 PM

Superb image Mike.
You never fail to amaze with detail and quality. Thanks for sharing your works.
PeterM.