Trifid from the 4th

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Date: 4/8/07
Time: 8:18pm
Loc: Glen Innes, NSW, Australia
Cam: DSI PRO II
Scope: 8" Skywatcher (newtonian f/5)
Software: Captured in Envisage, Processed in PS CS2
Exposures: L-50x11.3secs
R, G and B all: 20x 11.3secs

Comments and critique welcome as allways

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

That's terrific, Nick!!!

Gee, it's certainly 'In ya face'

I like your colours too

[leon]

Good one Nick, maybe a little over cropped but great effort.

Leon

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Thanks Ken and Leon.

Leon - I agree with you there but the horrible truth is that that is the largest possible FOV i can get with my setup, this is one of the few popular, bright objects
that i can get in one field. It isn't actually cropped.

[leon]

Ah, sorry Nick, I just jumped in and assumed, not a good habit of mine.

leon

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Looks like you might need a Focal Reducer, Nick. You'll get a slightly wider FOV and It will also bring the blue out a bit more too.

As long as you can still reach 'in' focus with your Reflector.

[Ric]

A great looking image Nick, well captured with nice depth and detail.

Cheers

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well you can be pretty happy with that Nick.

When I was your age (in 1985) I would have been over the moon to see an image like that come out of my cold camera wnd Celestron 5 mounted on the Oddie refractor at Mt Stromlo

Here is my setup I used ahen I was 16/17 years old:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/73602890

That's the Oddie at Mt Stromlo it is mounted on, unfortnately lost in the fires of 2003 The vacume for the cold camera was created using an old fridge compressor from the local tip

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Thanks to all

Leon - Thats ok, I would expect that it has been cropped too since it is such a small FOV

Ken - I have looked into a focal reducer and i would not be able to reach inward enough with the focus with any focal reducer

Mike - How times have changed since then, as a matter of fact, back then, by the looks of your picture, colour wasn't around in imaging(?)

[Garyh]

Thats a nice M20 Nick! plenty of depth and color..
A definite one for your web site!!
cheers Gary

[Tamtarn]

Really good image Nick nicely done

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Thanks again

[richardo (Rich)]

Yep, top effort there Nick!!
Stars are good and tight and nice colour!

Keep up the good work

All the best
Rich

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Dr Nick

Ken - How times have changed since then, as a matter of fact, back then, by the looks of your picture, colour wasn't around in imaging(?)

I think you meant "Mike"..?

There was colour film of course but that was harder to develope and print yourself. I did use it and had it comercially developed (slides mostly - Ektachrome) but I mostly used B&W due to the ease of developing and printing. In 1986 My mate and I who did astrophotography together sold 150 photos of Halley's at $10 a pop to help finance our dream telescope (18" F5 Newt for astrophotography). At one stage we had a production line going in my garage at night making prints - fixer, developer, water etc....the scope was never finished

ATB and keep at your modern electronic developer

Mike

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Thanks, Rich

Yes, i did mean Mike, I have changed the post now so it makes more sense. Sounds like a good business, developing photos yourself... But now we have digital CCDs and everything is so much easier...