My deepest Tarantula and friends

Garyh · #1 16-12-2007, 12:44 PM

Hi guys and Gals,
A lot of us were lucky in eastern N.S.W. on friday night to get some nice clear dark skies..

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Here is my best and deepest shot of the Tarantula neb area with my 6" newt and Canon 300D. Guided with a toucam and PHD.
Image is 20 x 6min at iso 800. Seeing was average but got better throughout the night!
Sat back with my wife and watched the odd geminoid cross the sky!
All comments most welcome on my processing and colors..

Image does suffer a bit from jpg compression but to post...
I have never been happy with any of my attempts before but I am quiet pleased with this go!..

That cloud is back now but at least we got a clear night and right on the Geminod peak!
cheers Gary

iceman (Mike) · #2 16-12-2007, 01:36 PM

Wow Gary! I know why you are proud of that! That's brilliant. Colours and detail are superb.

leon · #3 16-12-2007, 02:03 PM

Nice one Gary there really is some array of colour in that image, very striking,

Leon

browndog (Ian) · #4 16-12-2007, 04:03 PM

Really nice image

The extra time in gathering data has really helped.
Great colours and detail - one to be proud of.

jase (Jason) · #5 16-12-2007, 04:58 PM

Great work Gary. Really love the knots of nebulosity in the wide field view. Colour balance also looks good, perhaps slightly on the teal/aqua tint but nothing major. Well done.

Ric · #6 16-12-2007, 05:39 PM

Nice one Gary, that is one spectacular image.

Top stuff

danny (Daniel) · #7 16-12-2007, 08:42 PM

Awsome image, great deatail and colour

Blows me away that its not even in our galaxy, well done

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #8 16-12-2007, 11:48 PM

That's so pretty. I could look at it for ages and still find more detail that I'd missed.
I've set it as my desktop picture on the computer.
Thank you very much for posting it here.

Garyh · #9 17-12-2007, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by iceman

Wow Gary! I know why you are proud of that! That's brilliant. Colours and detail are superb.

Thanks Mike! I am glad to manage to capture that much detail! and finally get a whole clear night.

cheers

Quote:

Originally Posted by leon

Nice one Gary there really is some array of colour in that image, very striking,

Leon

Thankyou Leon for you lovely comment!

Quote:

Originally Posted by browndog

Really nice image

The extra time in gathering data has really helped.
Great colours and detail - one to be proud of.

Thanks Browndog, I`m trying to go 2hours now that I have the autoguiding setup..

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Originally Posted by jase

Great work Gary. Really love the knots of nebulosity in the wide field view. Colour balance also looks good, perhaps slightly on the teal/aqua tint but nothing major. Well done.

Thanks Jase!

glad you didn`t mind it..
So hard to work out the color balance for this image as every image I have looked at is so different...from magenta,red to blue to green.
I need to bookmark a site of one of the experts!

to give me a idea..
cheers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ric

Nice one Gary, that is one spectacular image.

Top stuff

Thankyou Ric for that!!!...

Quote:

Originally Posted by danny

Awsome image, great deatail and colour

Blows me away that its not even in our galaxy, well done

So true too Danny! didn`t think of it that way! We are lucky to be able to do this down in the south..

Thanks again..

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

That's so pretty. I could look at it for ages and still find more detail that I'd missed.
I've set it as my desktop picture on the computer.
Thank you very much for posting it here.

Thanks Jeanette..

glad you are enjoying the view!
Always makes it worthwhile to post and share ones efforts...good or bad!
thankyou..

Might give it another process today and see if I can squeeze some more out of the data...
cheers Gary

EzyStyles (Eric) · #10 17-12-2007, 11:17 AM

fantastic tarantula gary. love the colours! heaps of details and good fov.

dcalleja · #11 17-12-2007, 07:26 PM

Gary
Brilliant image, great colour and depth and nicely framed!!

RB (Andrew) · #12 17-12-2007, 08:10 PM

Wow look at the colours, just beautiful !!

It looks like a high quality opal gemstone.

Well done Gary.

Garyh · #13 18-12-2007, 01:53 PM

Thanks Eric, Dan and Andrew!
Have reprocessed it since with some more care as the stars were a little burned out and the histogram looked a bit strange..I think its a much improved but not as contrasty...
Thanks people for your comments!..