M20 - Trifid Nebula IISAC - 12th April

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Hi All,

Well, I stuck to the objects I am familiar with, in order to gauge the difference in my camera for a truly dark sky at IISAC.

This is 40 mins of the Trifid, taken on Friday night while dodging variable seeing due to the hazy clouds that kept annoying all of us. Darks, lights and bias were used, stacked in DSS, processed mainly in Nebulosity and PS CS3.

Uncompressed version here

Cheers

Chris

[Larryp (Laurie)]

That's a nice result, Chris! Have you an image taken from your normal spot for a side by side comparison? Got to get me an Atik

[gregbradley]

A great result and the dark skies make all the difference don't they?

The main problem with dark skies is the fact you have to travel to get to them and the weather can deny you their beauty!

Greg.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Hi Laurie,

No, not yet with the Atik. I havent had access to Sagittarius since the camera was purchased late last year. I should be able to soon, take some from home for a comparo with the same exposures etc.

Cheers

Chris

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Awesome shot! Love the dark gas in front of the blue!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

Hi Laurie,

No, not yet with the Atik. I havent had access to Sagittarius since the camera was purchased late last year. I should be able to soon, take some from home for a comparo with the same exposures etc.

Cheers

Chris

[Deeno]

Gee, that looks good.
Very interested in your setup...

[pluto (Hugh)]

Nice

[DJT (David)]

Nice one Chris. Looks like a nice set up on the go.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

Awesome shot! Love the dark gas in front of the blue!

I was surprised that came out. Thanks Russell

Originally Posted by Deeno

Gee, that looks good.
Very interested in your setup...

Its a corker this one, Deeno, after I got the alignment sorted on Friday evening I got some nice subs.

Originally Posted by pluto

Nice

Thanks Hugh, I am going to look into the ED80 subs soon for some blended Ha action......yummo

Originally Posted by DJT

Nice one Chris. Looks like a nice set up on the go.

Thanks David, its a great bank for your buck rig, seems like I am getting the hang of it now...

Cheers

Chris

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Thats nice Chris!

You beat me to it , I'm still working on my Trifid data.

Well done mate

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A great result and the dark skies make all the difference don't they?

The main problem with dark skies is the fact you have to travel to get to them and the weather can deny you their beauty!

Greg.

Thanks Greg, yes, the niggles with the brain doing the drift alignment in a foreign spot meant Thursday's fantastic sky was somewhat wasted. But I did get something and the view looking up was worth it while the steam came out of the ears.

Cheers

Chris

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Thats nice Chris!

You beat me to it , I'm still working on my Trifid data.

Well done mate

Thanks Rod, I look forward to yours.

Cheers mate,

Chris

[RB (Andrew)]

Beautiful detail and nice colours mate, love the image scale too.
The uncompressed version looks even better.

Well done !!

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Aww shucks Andrew, you are making me blush....

Cheers

Chris

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Awesome! One of my favourite objects. Really nice colours.
Erik

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Thanks Erik,

I am processing my ED80 version of this one now, but only half the subs and 2/5ths of the aperture of the BD200N, not as pretty, but we will see.....

Cheers

Chris

[multiweb (Marc)]

Gotta be happy with that Chris. Very nicely done.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Yes, nice shot Chris! So this was taken with your DSLR then?

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

The main problem with dark skies is the fact you have to travel to get to them and the weather can deny you their beauty!
Greg.

No all of us have too Not a true dark site but not bad

A pretty good result Chris with nice colours...is it just a tad out of focus do you think, or is that the seeing..?

Mike