IC 2944 Running Chicken

[Tamtarn]

Imaged on Sunday night.

8 x 7min light frames ISO800 ICNR ......... Pentax ist DL

Stacked DSS Processed PSCS2

[Dennis]

Hi Dave & Barb

Gee, you guys are being incredibly productive with that Pentax. A terrific image and 7 minute light frames –wow, now that is good! It looks nice and clean, with round stars and just very pleasing to the eye.

Cheers

Dennis

[spearo (Frank)]

Very nice and crisp
well done
frank

[Hagar (Doug)]

nice sharp image with lots of detail and depth. Well done.

[leon]

Barb and Dave, now I have looked for that elusive chook in your image, but have failed to see it, now with that useless bit of information said, your image is very impressive, all looks pretty good to me, well done.

Leon

[Matty P (Matt)]

A very detailed and colourful image. Well done.

I aswell, fail to see a running chicken in the image.

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by Dennis

Hi Dave & Barb

Gee, you guys are being incredibly productive with that Pentax. A terrific image and 7 minute light frames –wow, now that is good! It looks nice and clean, with round stars and just very pleasing to the eye
Cheers
Dennis

The Pentax has served us well Dennis. We're looking at getting a 40D soon . We hope we can improve our images with the Canon.

Originally Posted by spearo

Very nice and crisp
well done
frank

Thanks for the comments Frank

Originally Posted by Hagar

nice sharp image with lots of detail and depth. Well done.

Thanks Doug

Originally Posted by leon

Barb and Dave, now I have looked for that elusive chook in your image, but have failed to see it, now with that useless bit of information said, your image is very impressive, all looks pretty good to me, well done.
Leon

Leon we can't see the chook either Don't know who named it. Maybe it's obvious in deeper or better quality images

Originally Posted by Matty P

A very detailed and colourful image. Well done.

I aswell, fail to see a running chicken in the image.

Thanks for the comments Matty. Don't know why it's called the running chicken

[beren]

Congrats top image, reminiscent of the fine Eta image you guys posted a little while back

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by beren

Congrats top image, reminiscent of the fine Eta image you guys posted a little while back

Thanks for the positive comments Stuart we really appreciate it

[Garyh]

Great capture Barb and Dave! I can even make out some Blok Globs!
cheers Gary

[Ric]

Great image Barb & Dave, that is a wonderful region of nebulosity and you have captured it very nicely.

Cheers

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

very nice shot guys, you can even see the dark neb globulars in the central region.

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by Ric

Great image Barb & Dave, that is a wonderful region of nebulosity and you have captured it very nicely.

Thanks Ric glad you like it.

[RB (Andrew)]

That's a beautiful result Barb & David.
I love the colours, especially how you've picked up some nice yellow stars in there too.
The histogram seems a little clipped in the shadows but the overall look is great.

Perhaps my only suggestion would be to post a larger size as the 600 x 567 pixels doesn't do it justice.
You'd be able to easily post one at double the res and yet still maintain detail.

In PS CS2 I resize my images from original to around the 1000px mark and tick "Bi-cubic Sharper" next to the "Re-sample Image" option.
Then use the "Save for web" menu item under "File" to save it as a jpg to fit within the forum limit.

Once again an excellent result.

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by Garyh

Great capture Barb and Dave! I can even make out some Blok Globs!
cheers Gary

Originally Posted by EzyStyles

very nice shot guys, you can even see the dark neb globulars in the central region.

Pardon our ignorance guys. You both have mentioned blok and neb globs. Not sure whether we we've got this right Are the dark areas I have selected in this image what you're talking about. I have enhanced them a bit.
Barb

Originally Posted by RB

That's a beautiful result Barb & David.
I love the colours, especially how you've picked up some nice yellow stars in there too.
The histogram seems a little clipped in the shadows but the overall look is great.

Perhaps my only suggestion would be to post a larger size as the 600 x 567 pixels doesn't do it justice.
You'd be able to easily post one at double the res and yet still maintain detail.

In PS CS2 I resize my images from original to around the 1000px mark and tick "Bi-cubic Sharper" next to the "Re-sample Image" option.
Then use the "Save for web" menu item under "File" to save it as a jpg to fit within the forum limit.

Once again an excellent result.

You're right about the clipping Andrew. Have tried to adjust it but lose too much detail in the nebula.

Thanks for the tip on resizing

[Garyh]

Spot on there! those are a couple of those Blok thingo`s

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by Garyh

Spot on there! those are a couple of those Blok thingo`s

Thanks Gary ..........Now we know what a Blok Thingo is

[Dietmar]

hi B&D,

very nice capture!