LMC Widish Field

gbeal · #1 14-03-2005, 02:31 PM

Time to get back into the swing of some DSO imaging, after more than a few headaches and failures.
The LMC is a composite of 3 shots, each about 2 minutes, at ISO125, with the dreaded Nikon D100, and old/ugly Nikkor 300mm at f4.5.
Definitely an object to work on.
Gary

[1ponders] (Paul) · #2 14-03-2005, 02:39 PM

Nice shot Gary, excellent nebula capture.

Did you stack in Reg3 or use photoshop? Unguided?

So that's where all my cloud had come from. Left the Land of the Long White Cloud and headed to Queensland.

I hope it stays away for you a bit longer so you can post a few more of these.

iceman (Mike) · #3 14-03-2005, 02:45 PM

That's just beautiful Gary, another one for print!

Look at NGC2070 and all those nice little star clusters in there!

I love it! Thanks for posting!

gbeal · #4 14-03-2005, 04:39 PM

Ice/Paul,
thanks, I have had a few (no, more than a few) glitches with guiding/imaging lately, and almost ready to throw in the towel, being the wimp I am.
This one was an effort to revert back to basics. Being a 300mm it didn't need quite the guiding, but it was, on the G-11, and using the ToUcam and Robby's StarMate.
I had intended shooting about 8 - 10 images for stacking, but the cloud only allowed 3, and then covered the sky. Such is life.
The slave stacked them in Photshop. I may rework it, and try a dark or two, something I haven't really persevered with, as I simply use the built in N/R setting.
Gary

rumples riot · #5 14-03-2005, 05:01 PM

Lovely shot, might I suggest using a flat field on the shot. Other than that, this is very good, captured the irregularity very well. Congrats and lets see some more.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #6 15-03-2005, 01:23 AM

Absolutely brilliant Gary (the shot, not the light source).

Tarantula really stands out! Well done!!

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #7 15-03-2005, 07:37 AM

Thats a nice image, a tad too much magnification, for me anyway, but really good detail.

Well done!

Comet Hunter · #8 15-03-2005, 08:42 AM

Simply beautiful Gary, great work!

Striker (Tony) · #9 15-03-2005, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Lovely shot, might I suggest using a flat field on the shot.

Is their any chance someone can use 1 image and explain the difference......I hear terms such as Flat field, F10,F20,F30 focal reducers virtualy every term when it comes to astrophotography......

It would be nice if someone could show us in picture form what these differences are.....

For eg...Gary's picture looks great to me but what would a flatter field do and what difference does it make to the picture.....

Maybe have 4 or 5 pictures of the same image using and explaining what I have just spoken about....

In short...all I want to know is what difference this make to your image......I'm sure others are scratching their heads aswell...I hope.....lol

ving (David) · #10 15-03-2005, 02:21 PM

nice pic gary.

unfortunately the IT dept here at work swapped my old CRT for a LG flatron LCD... pics dont look as good on the monitor and i dont seem to be able to do anything about it

MiG · #11 15-03-2005, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by ving
nice pic gary.

unfortunately the IT dept here at work swapped my old CRT for a LG flatron LCD... pics dont look as good on the monitor and i dont seem to be able to do anything about it

You should be able to improve it using this page:
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html

ving (David) · #12 16-03-2005, 07:22 AM

thanks mig.

viewed from at home it looks much better