Horsehead with 20DA by Stan Smith

[Striker (Tony)]

HI Guys,

This image was done by Stan Smith who is on the 20DA Yahoo forum group....I got permission from Stan to post this image.

I really like it..alot.

Image taken with an 80ED

http://www.senecaastronomy.com/galle...=horsehead_002

If I could do half as good I would be happy.

Comments

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice shot Tony. I wonder what processing he did, if any?

[iceman (Mike)]

Where are the diffraction spikes!?

Great shot.

[Striker (Tony)]

Imaged horsehead with the 20Da this past Friday night. This one consists of 40 images @ 5 minute exposures. Raw to FITS conversion, alignment, stacking, and processing done in ImagesPlus. Acquired images using DSLRFOCUS. Final touchup in Photoshop CS2.

Does that look familiar or what....I just need to learn all the software now.

I have also given Stan a link to this post so he may even make a comment.

[Robby]

Love ya work Stan. Beautiful.

[ving (David)]

great shot tony, nice find!

obviously a fake tho

[atalas]

Beatiful work there by Stan , thanks for sharing that with us Tony .

[acropolite (Phil)]

Fantastic work by Stan, ya gotta luv those Canons.

[h0ughy (David)]

I am in awe of the images produced by guys with that skill level. Its a great image!

[xelasnave]

Top image, with an 80mm as well. Perfect cure for app fever.
alex

[cventer]

Just remember guys, you dont need a 20Da to taker images like that.

I took this one at South Pacific Star Party 2005 using my self modified Canon 300D and a 102mm refractor with a series of unguided 3 min images.

Its not quite up there with stans as it is only about 3/4 of his exposure time, but its pretty close

Best Regards
Chris Venter

[atalas]

Its another great piece of work Chris !