First run with G11 Orion & Horsehead

[avandonk]

Sorry Striker if I have misunderstood. I just thought if the image was so good from one meg there was more there. I can't compete with your single optic that has no CA. My aim is to make very large mosaics in colour of the sky at moderate resolution with my 300mm lens so all these fantastic shots all you guys do at high mag. and high resolution can be seen on a poster size picture with some relevance to each other.
A bit like Starways.

Bert

[avandonk]

Originally Posted by space lover

Just saw you shots and boy are they amazing, nice job





Holy moly, that is seriously freaky

We all have a hard wired part of the brain that looks for faces, sometimes it works too well.

Bert

[ving (David)]

been a while since we have seen something from you tony

great shots

[Striker (Tony)]

Thats cool Bert...It probably sounded like I sent Eddie a Jpeg how I worded it.

Sure keeping the image at 8MP would have been better but sending a 47mb file is way to large to email.

Eddie couldn't open the (CR2) Canon Raw file so the best we could do was to send a reduced Rez Tiff file at about 3mb.

[Itchy]

Great Work Tony!

I wish I had a G11

Cheers

[Robert_T]

Aw Tony, why'd you go and post these, here I was happy to concentrate on planetary as I'd convinced myself no good deep sky could be done from suburban Brisbane, then wham! You realise of course this is going to cost me $, maybe not now, but soon

hope you're feeling guilty!

[Striker (Tony)]

Sorry Robert.....there is no doubt you can do a lot better with dark skies but you can still get some good results in Suburbia.

Check out Eddie web site.....most of his images were done from his Observatory on the Gold Coast.
http://astroshed.com/

Hey Tony, nice shots

what's up with the tracking? you got oblong stars in two directions in the original
you posted?

The Horsehead Neb I'm talking about

Re-editActually it's in both images you posted

regards,CS

[Striker (Tony)]

Rob there unguided Images...plus no Pec....throw in some vignetting with no flats or darks....I would say thats enough.

Originally Posted by Striker

Rob there unguided Images...plus no Pec....throw in some vignetting with no flats or darks....I would say thats enough.

Not really sure if vignetting with no flats or darks would create the oblong
star effect. Still even unguided the oblong effect should be uniform. Where
as in your images they're up and down on the right side, and left to right
on the left side, interesting. Similar to what I have seen with a yoke style
mount working in Alt-Azi mode.

Maybe there was some kind of camera movement.

regards,CS

[RB (Andrew)]

I can't see anything wrong with the stars.
Where abouts are they?