Rho Ophiuchi

[LKD (Luke)]

Finally a really nice clear night to image at Warwick.
https://www.astrobin.com/nflt6u/

[Dave882 (David)]

That hi res shot is stunning. The colour in this area just blows me away and you have captured it beautifully.

[LKD (Luke)]

That hi res shot is stunning. The colour in this area just blows me away and you have captured it beautifully.

Thanks Dave Im very pleased I think a really stunningly transparent night with excellent seeing help

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Excellent image, Luke. The framing is great, too - it looks like a giant cosmic jellyfish swimming through the stars.

The restrained colours are much easier on the eye than a lot of the saturated-neon images you see.

Cheers,
V

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah, niiiice shot Luke! I love that subtle cyan/teal hue in wide field MW shots. Agree about your sky conditions comment too, you are in a lovely dark spot, I would love to be able to shoot such a scene from Eagleview some day

Mike

[PKay (Peter)]

Very nice Luke.

Sometimes subtle means better.

Good one

[alpal]

Great image Luke,
I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the price of the lens you used
https://sigmaphoto.com.au/products/0...rime-cine-lens


No wonder the picture is so good.



cheers
Allan

[LKD (Luke)]

[QUOTE=alpal;1565043]Great image Luke,
I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the price of the lens you used
https://sigmaphoto.com.au/products/0...rime-cine-lens

Thanks for the kind words guys. Thanks Alan for pointing out a typo, that cine lens is not the lens I used , I will edit the info on astrobin.

Didnt process the image much took 2 mins after WBPP, just curves and a little bit of increased saturation. Could have done more but I feel many imagers tend to over saturate this field and loose fine detail.

[Addos (Adam)]

amazing what you can do from a dark sky! great shot especially for such a short integration!

[LKD (Luke)]

Originally Posted by Addos

amazing what you can do from a dark sky! great shot especially for such a short integration!

Thanks Adam, first time imaging at f2.8 , I wasnt sure how long to make each sub. Clear Skies indicated I would cloud out in a few hours so chose a shorter sub time. Sky was so transparent could easliy have gone 120sec subs. Oh to have some extended and reliably good conditions.

[AdamJL]

Yeah that's lovely. I'd maybe stop the lens down to f/4 because you've got some funky triangular stars there.

edit: I take that back. Looking at it more closely, it's just backfocus. Your stars are great in the centre, and turn into tear drops towards the edges. Maybe a 0.5mm - 1mm shim would fix that!

Great work.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Pretty special. Great colors and a field to die for. So many stars. One for the poolroom.