RCW 19 region in Puppis

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

This is a pretty interesting area not imaged often.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astr...s-1_0000ba.htm

Tom

[gregbradley]

Just brilliant. I love the star colours and overall patches of pastel shades of various nebula you get in your images. Just beautiful.

You're so consistent with your images.

Greg.

[Ric]

Wonderful Tom, those globules are awesome.

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

That is just beautiful. Oh what I give to be able to image for that length of time.

Frank

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Hmmm, let's see ... star colour & shape, check ... rich neb colour, check ... great detail, check ... featureless sky is neutral & near black, check ... nice framing, check ... low noise, check ....

... Oh stop it Tom!!!! How about posting a few images we can criticise to show us you're human!!

Cheers, Marcus

PS: I still want to see a full res version of your images. I'd love to see every one of those 16 gorgeous Mpixels!!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yes beautifull for sure Tom, an interesing mix too, thanks for sharing again...and again...and again...

You really are an imaging machine mate ...That FLI ProLine 16803 is a killer (I want one.......coming in a week or two )...I wish I was in the position to take as many images as you can though

Mike

[TrevorW]

Tom I noticed 16hrs on this one, how many nights remote capturing does that take

what size are the download files per frame

Another top shot

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Exquisitly balanced, from star flouresence to glob detail to colour generally. A pleasure to view Tom

[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

Damn fine Tom

You know looking at your images makes me feel like i'm at a Playboy bunny parade. Sitting here looking and thinking 'Id love to do that' but equipment and ability lets me down . In both cases - maybe one day.

Congratulations again - you give us something to aim for.

Mark Bolton

[mill (Martin)]

That looks mighty fine Tom
Cant fault it, nice star colors and composition.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Sublime.

7 Internets to you, sir.

H

[Jen]

wow nice work Tom the colors in this are just beautiful

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Thanks everyone.

Tom

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Tom I noticed 16hrs on this one, how many nights remote capturing does that take

what size are the download files per frame

This one was over three nights.

When CCD Commander saves the file it uses Maxim's lossless compression routine so each file is about 14mb. Without the compression, a 16bit file from the KAF-16803 is 32mb.

Tom

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great colors & details. Another master piece.

[TrevorW]

Thanks Tom

[suma126 (Shane)]

looks fantastic as usual. :thum bsup:

[jase (Jason)]

Lovely work Tom. A filling visual feast cooked to perfection. Thanks for sharing.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

This one was over three nights.

When CCD Commander saves the file it uses Maxim's lossless compression routine so each file is about 14mb. Without the compression, a 16bit file from the KAF-16803 is 32mb.

Tom

Ooh, that's interesting to know.
I find sometimes processing the 16803 images a bit slow and tedious as 32mb files mean unless you have a super hot computer CCDstack is going to run very slowly and max of 5-6 images at a time.

I'll have to get Maxim DL at some point.

Greg.

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Ooh, that's interesting to know.
I find sometimes processing the 16803 images a bit slow and tedious as 32mb files mean unless you have a super hot computer CCDstack is going to run very slowly and max of 5-6 images at a time.

I agree regarding the impact that 16803 files put in your pc. I finally got so frustrated that I bought a quad core-64bit, 8gb RAM, windows 7 (64bit) machine. Now I can calibrate, stack, data reject/combine up to 50 frames at a time -- all while surfing the web!

Tom