Wow! By far the best cat's paw we've seen to date. There are features there - big ones - that we've never noticed before. Looks wonderfully three-dimensional.
Excellent image Suavi! Pleasing colours and great detail! One of the best I've seen recently!
Thank you Marcus - I hope you will get many clear nights soon.
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I think Mr A. Powers puts it best:
"Yeah Baby!"
A wonderful rendition.
Thank you Peter - glad you like it.
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Excellence in all areas Suavi - Congratulations!!!!
Thank you Andy - after I did Version #1, I checked your recent excellent image of the cat's paw, and encouraged by your bold interpretation of this fascinating DSO, I Suavified the image a bit more (=add bit of extra colour saturation...eeee, I should still add a bit more saturation..hmmmm that's better, but, let's try yet a bit more saturation...) .
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Wow! By far the best cat's paw we've seen to date. There are features there - big ones - that we've never noticed before. Looks wonderfully three-dimensional.
Thank you Mike and Trish for your always positive and motivating encouragement.
Brilliant Suavi, an improvement on your previous paw,which was awesome in its own rite, great colour and detail.
Just out of curiosity what are your PHD settings for the Mach1
Thank you George.
My current PHD2 settings are 3s exposures (with Lodestar which has fairly large pixels and at f/4.5 I get a high SNR), RA has Hysteresis 10 and Aggressiveness 55, min move 0.2 pixels, DEC is set at resist switch, aggressiveness 80 and min move also 0.20 pixels.
I love the fine detail and micro contrast scattered throughout the nebula; always something to look at no matter where you look!
Who did you have to pay off to get 5 clear nights?
A wonderfully distinctive, complex and beautiful image. Thankyou, thankyou thankyou!
Thank you Ben for your encouragement and a very kind feedback.
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Really nicely done. Incredible details
Thank you Marc. Went for just over 50 hours on this target, so data was quite clean. If I could only nail that tilt.
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I love the fine detail and micro contrast scattered throughout the nebula; always something to look at no matter where you look!
Who did you have to pay off to get 5 clear nights?
Beautifully sharp and detailed. I like the colour.
By the way I use 6-8 second guide exposures on an AP1600. Same on a PME.
3 seconds may be a bit short as you can end up chasing the seeing and 6 seconds tends to even the seeing out. On a high end mount like an AP Mach 1 longer exposures are possible. Shorter ones are usually needed on lesser mounts with higher errors.
Beautifully sharp and detailed. I like the colour.
By the way I use 6-8 second guide exposures on an AP1600. Same on a PME.
3 seconds may be a bit short as you can end up chasing the seeing and 6 seconds tends to even the seeing out. On a high end mount like an AP Mach 1 longer exposures are possible. Shorter ones are usually needed on lesser mounts with higher errors.
Greg.
Thank you Greg. I probably could try longer guiding exposures, but if it works, don't tweak it Since I acquired Mach1 I am getting a good night sleep with every astro session - no more watching guide graphs and tweaking the settings as the night progresses and no more assisting the mount to recentre after the meridian flip. Just initiate the session and forget.
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Sensational, image, as per usual, Suavi! A benchmark image for sure.
Thank you Wormsy
Jokes aside, I really appreciate your kind feedback Lee
Love the detail Suavi of a very tough object to do justice. Even the colour transitions look good, though I am not a big fan of the magenta background. I know this is effectively a result of the palette. The palette does work though overall. I have imaged this several times myself but never been happy with any result obtained. It is a hard object for sure.
Pleasing colours and great detail! One of the best I've seen recently!
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