Crummy offerings

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Ah sigh....Life, weather and equipment don't seem to be able to coperate all at the same time these days sooo not much has been happening at Mt Campbell Observatory Mark III of late .

I wasn't going to post it but what tha heck...this is the latest test image from last new moon. Nothing spectacular that's for sure, it's just a simple 3X10min Halpha shot of NGC 6357 and the first image taken using the 4" field flattener with the ProLine11002. It was Binned 2X2 by accident so it's lower res than I wanted DOH! and taken through some cloud even - warning 800K image

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...30886/original

And here is a reprocess of Omega Cen from some weeks back taken with the starfire but without the field flattener so it was cropped (yeh I was bored ) - warning 800K image

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...12510/original

Hopefully this new moon will see me able to test the Starfire and 4" Field flattener properly?

Cheers & Happy imaging

Mike

[h0ughy (David)]

MIke, I must be suffering really badly, because I dont see anything wrong with those images

[RB (Andrew)]

Oh if only I could take crummy images like your's Mike.

[mick pinner]

you should be ashamed Mike

[Ric]

Hi Mike, they are wonderful images, I'd be very happy if I could get something close to them, still it's more inspiration for me to get out there and keep imaging.

If they are the entree's, I'd better get a seatbelt for my chair so I dont fall out when the main course arrives.

Cheers

[Ingo]

Originally Posted by Rocket Boy

Oh if only I could take crummy images like your's Mike.

I second that

[middy]

Originally Posted by Ingo

I second that

And I second your second of that.

Clearly your equipment is of inferior quality Mike, and faulty as well. If you like I can come over and collect it all and take it to the dump for you. Save you the journey. It's the least I could do for a fellow IIS'er.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

That Glob',Man! That Glob'!!!!!!!
Beautiful stuff - thanks for sharing Mike.
Keep the "crud" coming
Doug

[jase (Jason)]

Nothing wrong with these Mike. NGC6357 is nicely processed and fills the frame well. Perhaps a little on the noisy side. I'm assuming this is a crop. No need to tell me about the imaging blues - I scrapped two hours of RGB data that I collected over the weekend due to soft focus (stupid FocusMax and operator).

[Garyh]

Nice detail there Mike!!, looks like the field flattener is working a treat and I don`t notice any vignetting either!! cheers

[hookedonsaturn]

Originally Posted by middy

And I second your second of that.

Clearly your equipment is of inferior quality Mike, and faulty as well. If you like I can come over and collect it all and take it to the dump for you. Save you the journey. It's the least I could do for a fellow IIS'er.

obviously you will be taking above offer as i was prepared to haul it away for a small fee of $10.

love the shots

[bluescope]

Your modesty is overwhelming Mike ..... great stuff, particularly ngc5139 !

[erick (Eric)]

Yes Mike, I also found that image of Omega Centauri brilliant - loved it!

[little col]

never seen a glob so resolved , looks fab to me

[richardo (Rich)]

Hey Mike,
good you were able to get some data down in between the weather.

Your Ngc6357 image has turned out very nicely with a good range of contrast throughout. It looks as though you had an issue with your dark frames as I see by the peppering effect ??
The flattener looks like it's doing it's job nicely....
Hate to think how much this 4" hunk of glass cost you

Look forward to some colour on this soon...

All the best
Rich

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Thanks all for the nice comments.

I am not happy with either image for several reasons but I like imaging and have done so little this year I felt compelled to share just to give myself the impression that I was doing "something" at least, so I posted them anyway

I've never been one that has to make a grand "release" of perfect pictures every time, it's the general act of imaging that I like the most (even if things haven't worked out as I had imagined this year DOH! )

Hopefully I can do some imaging this week/weekend?

ATB

Mike

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Well, Mike, if your equipment is not giving you what you want I would be happy to take it off you for you...

Great shots!!!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Terrible! Boring Images, They are just some stars and some nebula, and the
other one is just a bunch of stars. So what!


























I wanna take images like that!!!!


Truly nice work Mike. Well done again.