HMSTG195 Completed, NGC 4945 Work In Progress

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Excellent!! Love the dark nebs!

Tom

[AlexN]

Thanks Tom. The image of HMSTG195 was inspired by your wonderful work... I definitely plan to image more targets like this one.. However I feel I should really keep these targets for when I head to dark skies, and shoot NB targets from home.. That said, the image came out very well considering the light pollution that I was contending with..

I have compiled a list of interesting, and very rarely imaged dark nebulae, I hope to do one per month during the new moon weekends.. Im considering building up a second setup to have a sort of, miniature version of what you're imaging with... 8" F/4 newt with a 0.73x Keller Corrector on the GM8 with the ST8300 mono, and the TMB 80/480 on the HEQ5 with an ST8300 colour... Take lum and colour at the same time, maximizing the data acquisition capacity!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by AlexN

Thanks Tom. The image of HMSTG195 was inspired by your wonderful work... I definitely plan to image more targets like this one.. However I feel I should really keep these targets for when I head to dark skies, and shoot NB targets from home.. That said, the image came out very well considering the light pollution that I was contending with..

I have compiled a list of interesting, and very rarely imaged dark nebulae, I hope to do one per month during the new moon weekends.. Im considering building up a second setup to have a sort of, miniature version of what you're imaging with... 8" F/4 newt with a 0.73x Keller Corrector on the GM8 with the ST8300 mono, and the TMB 80/480 on the HEQ5 with an ST8300 colour... Take lum and colour at the same time, maximizing the data acquisition capacity!

Yep, that's the way to do it

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very nice work Alex. Cool rig you've got there.

[Paul Haese]

Quite nice work Alex. Background looks pretty smooth, albeit you could have the whole image a little brighter. Overall I like the image but there is one thing I don't like at all; that is the brighter stars look odd, almost like they have hundreds of spikes on them. Just a minor gripe in what is really an interesting looking image.

The 4945 image is quite nicely composed and I look forward to the final image.

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

I must be missing something ... well I am actually ... the images
When I select the link I only get a very small image and if I click that it goes to the library of even smaller ones.

Help me Ronda

Obviously others are not having this trouble as they couldn't possibly have commented how they have if they only get to see what I am.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Jeff,

Below the image are the standard pbase links for small, medium, large and original.

Click original.

H

[RobF (Rob)]

Looking forward to the final 4945 Alex.
Coming along very nicely. Great work.