IC2602 Southern Pleiades quickie

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Testing flatteners again, thought I'd get some RGB practise in before Astrofest. Still some tweaking of spacing between flattener (Televue TRF-2008) and camera to be done (stars in the corners still a little eggy).

Astrobin bigger version

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Testing flatteners again, thought I'd get some RGB practise in before Astrofest. Still some tweaking of spacing between flattener (Televue TRF-2008) and camera to be done (stars in the corners still a little eggy).

Astrobin bigger version

Pretty cool. Don't worry about the stars in the corners. Nothing that a keg can't fix.

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice one, Troy! Colour looks better in the IIS preview than Astrobin on my crappy laptop monitor. Colour management brain damage strikes again!

Cheers,
Rick.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

A vey nice image of this cluster Troy and I agree with Marc any star distortion visible is pretty minor and doesn't bother me, it's about the image as a whole for me and not how absolutely perfect the flatness of the field is and a as whole it looks good

Mike

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Nice image Troy, corners look good you must be very close with the spacing

Cheers geoff

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Pretty cool. Don't worry about the stars in the corners. Nothing that a keg can't fix.

Thanks mate. The more I better, the drink they look.

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice one, Troy! Colour looks better in the IIS preview than Astrobin on my crappy laptop monitor. Colour management brain damage strikes again!

Cheers. They look same (or very close) here. Usually it's the highly compressed (filesize restricted) IIS images that I can't get to look good.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A vey nice image of this cluster Troy and I agree with Marc any star distortion visible is pretty minor and doesn't bother me, it's about the image as a whole for me and not how absolutely perfect the flatness of the field is and a as whole it looks good

Mike

Thanks mate. I'm being picky on my own images, and of course I can see all the sins and defects in more detail than web display images. I've got a variable spacer on order and am confident that will fix it.

Originally Posted by ozstronomer

Nice image Troy, corners look good you must be very close with the spacing

Cheers geoff

Thanks mate. Good to be back on the horse and imaging. See you this weekend.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

I like the rich little cluster toward the top. You've shown how the big fellow relates to the milky way background, rather than showing it as a "binocular highlight".