Martin-Devon

That's an excellent image, well done...

Superb image Brendan, this is off the beaten track, not often imaged, but you've done a great job with this 

That's a great image Brendan, especially the close-up, the colours and details are really good. 

That's a super image, love the framing and colours, great job.

That's a beautiful image Phil, I'd be pretty chuffed with that.
Martin

That's a fabulous image Carole - true dedication over several years to finally pull it all together. The colours and field of view are great. I've had a shot at this from my UK site several times and have only half-finished images and poor quality data, with the target being so low it's amongst all the murk in that part of the atmosphere. I'd be mighty chuffed though to deliver an image of Rho/Antares as good as what you have, well done!  

Fantastic version of this difficult target, not overdone at all, just beautifully natural looking - great job!

Superb image - well done!

Hi Si, welcome to SGL. I live near Kentisbeare, so pretty close to Honiton. I've been a past member of the Norman Lockyer Observatory, it's a great place to meet people and learn. Like you I started off with visual kit but soon moved across to deep-sky imaging and have been doing this for the last 10 years. You'll enjoy the hobby, although as you'll find the frequent lack of good clear nights can be mighty frustrating! 

Martin

A lot of work has gone into this and you've achieved an excellent image. The details and colours are superb. 

Agreed, a beautiful version here, looks very natural and not over-cooked, Great job!

Martin

Absolutely outstanding!

Fabulous widefield image Carole - colour palette is also spot-on, looks great - well done.

Martin

Ian, that's a brilliant version of Melotte 15, top drawer, the details in the nebulosity and the subtle but effective palette have come through superbly, I also like the handling of the stars, no halos, no sharp edges, just lovely and natural - overall an excellent image, take a bow!

Martin

That's a fabulous image, colours and processing are top drawer, well done.

I've had several red lights of various types, but the one I keep returning to is a small hand-held one from Inova. It's small, which I like, and red light only, but packs a real punch, excellent brightness on first setting, which you can tone down by clicking again going to the next setting. It surpasses by far the red light I have on my Petzl headtorch by quite some margin, and the batteries last for absolutely ages. You can buy the Inova red light torch from Amazon where it's listed as 'Inova Microlight Keyring Torch'.  

Hi Peter, welcome also from another astro-imager in Devon. 

Martin

That's a beautiful rendition of M42, even more so given the dreadful run of poor weather here in the UK., you've done very well to accumulate the data and have processed it really nicely - great job.

Martin

Lot of work has gone into this, great result .

That's an excellent image, has some real punch to it, well done.

That's a brilliant version of this target - great work.

John, as a first narrowband image this is excellent. When you mention removing pinpoint red stars, I assume you mean aberrant red pixels, there should be no bright red stars alone in the field if the stacked master files are aligned properly. Hot red pixels are not uncommon though and can be easily removed with a hot pixel map and substraction process - usually these disappear anyhow with calibration frames so just check the settings for how you are using these. Nevertheless that's a mighty good HOO image of this target - not over-cooked, and very well executed - well done.

Martin 

Thanks for your comments. It's difficult to get a decent run of clear nights here in Devon, especially when there's no Moon light around, but I may add some more frames to this this image to widen the FOV even further, so perhaps end up with a 4 frame mosaic - will need the night skies to play ball though!

Martin

Taken over several nights late July and early August, this is a 2 frame mosaic taken with a TakFSQ106/QSI690 on a AP Mach-1 mount, data for each frame collected using CCD Commander and consists of 12 x 10 minutes H-alpha, 9 x 10 minutes OIII and 9 x 10 minutes of SII. Processed using Photoshop in hubble palette. Thanks for looking, Martin.

Yep, I'm interested too - please keep us updated on possible dates and arrangements - thanks!