The Pavo Galaxy

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Another sidonio image, where do you get the clear skies? Great image of a fairly low surface brightness galaxy, you've managed to get more color than most others I have seen.

Clive

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Cheers John, shane and Rich

Ok ok sigh...I have done a Sidonio ..back ground desaturated a bit ...not totally convinced it was that necessary but I am a victum of peer pressure

Fred, you are an idiot (term of endearment ) read the original post properly ya git and you will see that if you click on the image that opens you will be able to access a full size full res image ..err I am at the mo...

Mike

Listen, punk , I dun that, so then I get hi res colour noise, OK

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Listen, punk , I dun that, so then I get hi res colour noise, OK

Noise?? I'll give you NOISE ...you plastic imager

[Garyh]

Looks very impressive Mike! Nice detail in the arms and stars nicely saturated. Background a tad noisy but when you want to get all that faint detail, it`s hard to avoid!
Done 5 hours with the DSLR of this, shall be interesting how noisy mine will turn out

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Noise?? I'll give you NOISE ...you plastic imager

plastic has less noise, duh. Crayons are solid, creative, usefull little buggers. Any questions ? .

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Please don't be alarmed anyone Fred and I do love each other

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Garyh

Looks very impressive Mike! Nice detail in the arms and stars nicely saturated. Background a tad noisy but when you want to get all that faint detail, it`s hard to avoid!
Done 5 hours with the DSLR of this, shall be interesting how noisy mine will turn out

Cheers Gazza...finally a non crayon user...some sanity prevails

Yes will be interesting

Mike

[mill (Martin)]

That picture looks superb, but that top left bright star is missing a diffraction spike

Just kidding, excellent work as always Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by mill

That picture looks superb, but that top left bright star is missing a diffraction spike

Just kidding, excellent work as always Mike

Cheers Martone

The field around this galaxy is great so I think I may look to add some more data here so that is is all from the 16803 chip.

Yes... that star was bothering Fred too just becasue well..it was a star?? so I did consider removing it just to make him happy buuuut bah... he can have another Sutho

Thanks

[alexch (Alex)]

I am speachless! The colours in the galaxy and the faint background stars are simply outstanding.

Cheers,
Alex

[Phil Hart]

superb.. after no doubt a lot of work, that is one sweet system you've got humming along very nicely there mike. top shelf imaging!

[DavidU (Dave)]

Mike V Fred

[renormalised (Carl)]

OK Children....scopes at 10 paces, no peeking and don't turn around till I count to 20

1...2...3............

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by philiphart

superb.. after no doubt a lot of work, that is one sweet system you've got humming along very nicely there mike. top shelf imaging!

Cool, glad you liked it Harty

The whole process from packing the car (six times ) to finally displaying the image is quite frankly very tiring..I think I should get back into training as it's starting to hurt . Yes a fair amount of work indeed...and it may not have ended even...I'd like to grab more Lum and RGB with the PL16803 ... ...I recon this FOV in full deep colour high res would look pretty specky

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by alexch

I am speachless! The colours in the galaxy and the faint background stars are simply outstanding.

Cheers,
Alex

It is a unique and somewhat difficult galaxy to process and present as it is rather subtle and delicate in structure with a low surface brightness.

Glad you liked it

Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by DavidU

Mike V Fred

Fred fixes wheelchairs for a living so if he hammers me at least I have a mode of transport home ...I suspect however the only hammering we would do would be getting hammered by drinking...

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

wow, I was almost missing this one! Extremely well done Mike, your are squeezing every photon out your ccd

Marco

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by marco

wow, I was almost missing this one! Extremely well done Mike, your are squeezing every photon out your ccd

Marco

Thanks Marco, speaking of squeezing every photon.. those 300mm pentax shots of yours do a bit of squeezing of their own!

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Verrrry nice Mike! A bit of noise? Maybe, but it doesn't detract from the impact of the image.

Funny, you beat me to the punch - we must have been imaging the same subject at the same time . Only just started processing my version though.

Cheers, Marcus

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

late to join the appreciative chorus...but I did enjoy looking at this fine image