M8,M20, IC 1274-1275-4685, NGC 6559 wide field - Page 2

TheDecepticon · #21 09-10-2009, 12:04 PM

Nice shots there, Hagar! I tried my hand at IC1275 last night. Here's hoping it turns out half as good as yours.

Hagar (Doug) · #22 09-10-2009, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by iceman

That's a beauty, Doug. I really like the first one.

What's the focal length of the setup you used?

Hi Mike, Image of the week Hey it's my first. As for focal length, it's 830mm with the extender, 530mm without the extender and 370 with the reducer. Covers a good range but with either the reducer or extender fitted it reduces the image circle quite a bit.

Thanks

Hagar (Doug) · #23 09-10-2009, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

Doug,

I really like the first image. The scale is just right. I see what you mean by having too many stars in the image. They get in the way of the nebulas. But, hey, they're there, and, they're there to be imaged.

Also, I want to know what the odd-shaped blue reflection nebula is on the right there? It's the only one not labelled in your larger image.

Also, I understand completely what you mean by getting comments on your work. It can be frustrating at the best of times. I often wonder why I bother posting my terrestrial work here. I'll wait until my web site is complete and then go spam terrestrial imaging sites.

Keep up the great work and inspirational images.

Regards,
Humayun

Thanks H, I can understand the frustration faced by some of the newer imagers when they don't recieve comments but then again sometimes it is hard to be constructive without being or appearing to be nasty in the process. There has to be a balance in the comment and in some cases it is noticable tha some post only to gain nice cmments and don't comment on others images. I for one have an in mind list and tend to avoid their images.

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Originally Posted by kinetic

Lovely shot Doug.
So much to see in there, nicely framed!
Congrats on the POTW too

Steve

Thanks Mate a bit of a shock. It's my first ever.

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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

Nice shots there, Hagar! I tried my hand at IC1275 last night. Here's hoping it turns out half as good as yours.

Good luck with it Graham, It will test you processing skills but it's worth the effort.A very rich area to iage indeed.
Thnks Mate.

multiweb (Marc) · #24 09-10-2009, 03:27 PM

Congrats on the image of the week. Very well done. Good stuff.

Hagar (Doug) · #25 10-10-2009, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by multiweb

Congrats on the image of the week. Very well done. Good stuff.

Thanks Marc. I enjoyed putting this set together and look forward to better skies to do the same on something like Orion.
My first Image of the week. I'm Chuffed.

RB (Andrew) · #26 10-10-2009, 02:50 PM

Congrats Doug on making IOTW.

Cheers

strongmanmike (Michael) · #27 10-10-2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Hagar

My first Image of the week. I'm Chuffed.

Yeh and these days Doug they are becoming "Image of a couple of weeks" too

Nice job mate

Mike

danielsun · #28 11-10-2009, 09:24 AM

Congtratulations on making image of the week.
Beautiful images Doug.

Cheers Daniel.

Tamtarn · #29 11-10-2009, 12:29 PM

Sorry we missed this post earlier Doug but as you know we were offline for a few weeks.

Great collection of some interesting widerfields around the M8 area.

Well done on image of the week

We enjoyed doing our longer FL of 6559 in July and it's really nice to see your wider views to put things into perspective.

Great job

iceman (Mike) · #30 11-10-2009, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh and these days Doug they are becoming "Image of a couple of weeks" too

Nice job mate

Mike

LOL I keep trying to get to it more regularly but it's defeating me atm.

Hopefully after IISAC.

sjastro · #31 11-10-2009, 02:24 PM

Very nice set of images Doug.

Steven

Paul Haese · #32 11-10-2009, 11:54 PM

Great work Doug, colour looks great in the surrounding stars and the nebula looks well processed. Nice going.

Hagar (Doug) · #33 12-10-2009, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by danielsun

Congtratulations on making image of the week.
Beautiful images Doug.

Cheers Daniel.

Thanks Daniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Sorry we missed this post earlier Doug but as you know we were offline for a few weeks.

Great collection of some interesting widerfields around the M8 area.

Well done on image of the week

We enjoyed doing our longer FL of 6559 in July and it's really nice to see your wider views to put things into perspective.

Great job

Thanks Guys, I hope Barb is getting better and David is recuperating from his nursing duties. An interesting area of sky.

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Originally Posted by sjastro

Very nice set of images Doug.

Steven

Thanks Steven

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Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Great work Doug, colour looks great in the surrounding stars and the nebula looks well processed. Nice going.

Thanks Paul, I am looking at a couple of areas like this which are close to main./usual targets which offer something a little unusual. Images like these widefields certainly hone your processing skills.

Thanks again everyone.

bluescope · #34 13-10-2009, 08:00 PM

Nice collection of images Doug ... I bought a WO 66 scope just a few days before I fractured my ankle and I'm looking forward to doing some wide field stuff when I'm up and about again ... still don't know when that is going to be at this stage though.

Keep up the good work mate !

Hagar (Doug) · #35 13-10-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bluescope

Nice collection of images Doug ... I bought a WO 66 scope just a few days before I fractured my ankle and I'm looking forward to doing some wide field stuff when I'm up and about again ... still don't know when that is going to be at this stage though.

Keep up the good work mate !

Sorry to hear about your accident, I haven't seen much from you for a while and wondered if you had just stopped imaging.
Lookingforward to seeing you back on deck.
Good luck Steve
Thanks for the coments Mate.

spacezebra (Petra) · #36 13-10-2009, 11:10 PM

Congrats Doug on you IOTW.

Cheers Petra d.

meliux (Dan) · #37 14-10-2009, 12:05 PM

in relation to http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/albums/u...ide-hi-res.jpg - is that the largest version you have? I'm looking for huge images - ie 1024px wide x 1536px high - so that I can set them as the background wallpaper on my vertically-spanned desktop (a monitor sitting on a shelf just above my laptop screen), without upscaling.
I've had success cropping the massive images from hubblesite, but i'd prefer to use IIS member pics if possible