I got to Coonabarabran last week for a couple of nights and managed to get a few photos of it as well.
Ross.
Thaks Ross. Coonabarabran sounds great. I took a few DSLRs snaps there once , nothing special. Its quite high altitude there so I am sure that helps a lot.
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Originally Posted by DJT
Great image, loads of fine detail. Looks like your setup is paying off.
Thanks David. Yes the mount, scope and autoguiding were working really well which makes imaging a lot easier.
Dunno Greg. I don't understand what is happening with the blue reflection nebulosity. I know it extends a distance from the main structure but not as far as you present it. Its hampering the murky dust behind it. Did something go wrong?
Dunno Greg. I don't understand what is happening with the blue reflection nebulosity. I know it extends a distance from the main structure but not as far as you present it. Its hampering the murky dust behind it. Did something go wrong?
I checked the data again and there does not appear to be any mistake. That's the data. Its taken from a totally dark site with a top line refractor uinder good seeing using a very sensitive camera with perfect tracking and thats what you get. It does extend that far. I know what you mean as I was surprised by how far it extended but there is no odd processing here. In fact the image has had very little processing which is my preferred style.
Just ideal conditions brought it out. Its not the first time I have picked up more extended reflection nebulosity from my dark site. Its nearly perfectly dark there.
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Originally Posted by Rigel003
Lovely image, Greg. Nice wide field too.
Thanks for that.
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Yeah nicely done great colour
Cheers trev.
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Originally Posted by allan gould
This is my favourite nebula as there is so much in it and your photo just re-inforces it. Thanks for posting
Allan
It is a very aesthetic area. The little glob just adds to it
Greg.
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That's undoubtedly stunning, amazing work.
But do you think the stars are a bit stretched?
just my opinion and this is just aesthetics, they seem to dominate the image more than the beautiful nebulosity, and I can't make out different star colour when compared to others like at apod. is it because its a wide FOV? The core of the Glob shows up a blue hue in a histogram.
this is one http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060403.html where there are quite a few yellow stars, but then the glob has a yellow hue.
what should it ideally be?
That's undoubtedly stunning, amazing work.
But do you think the stars are a bit stretched?
just my opinion and this is just aesthetics, they seem to dominate the image more than the beautiful nebulosity, and I can't make out different star colour when compared to others like at apod. is it because its a wide FOV? The core of the Glob shows up a blue hue in a histogram.
this is one http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060403.html where there are quite a few yellow stars, but then the glob has a yellow hue.
what should it ideally be?
Cheers
Alistair
Thanks Alistair for the link. On checking further I found an error in the green master. It had a few dodgy subs in it that I missed. Cloud affected and it threw the green off. I've redone it and its correct colour now.
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I am with Jase here. The blue looks monochromatic.
Yes you are both right there was an error. Thanks for picking it up.
Repro posted, same links.
