buying large prints of Nebula

[phil848]

Good evening guys n gals, wifey person is re-decorating the living room at the min, and with me showing her hubble pics of planets and nebula over the yrs, she has requested I try and get a large print of a nebula for one of the walls. Any good suppliers about the uk? Cheers peeps. And would these clouds ever clear . Got a new skyliner 200p for crimbo n had it out twice...upgraded from a 130... Holy bejusus are they trick or what.

[floppygoose]

I can probably send you loads of large prints ...... of clouds ... if it helps

Phil

[phil848]

Lol, got that edition all ready! Lovely big one that never goes away.

[AstroJOE]

How big are you talking? There is a book out which consists purely of removeable prints taken by Hubble. All the usual suspects in there.....but think it was only about A3 size. Not sure if that is big enough for your needs?

[lucjam]

If you have a good digital image of the subject internet Companies like Photobox offer large canvas prints of your chosen subject.

[webboid]

I had a very large print done (87"x44") of the Carina nebula from http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wall_murals/2-carina-color/ by http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/ in Norwich cost £99 though. But the quality is superb.

[Doshy]

If you want to do it properly.......... http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk/space-mural-wallpaper.htm

Phil.

[phil848]

Thanks for your help and pm`s guys, much appreicated, and if my wife comes on here and ask`s...yes the Millenium Falcon is a nebula!!

[Mik3]

If you own a printer you could rasterbate itand print it yourself.

[Andy McK]

If you own a printer you could rasterbateitand print it yourself.

Nice one Mike, I'll give this a bash on my A1 plotter, Funny, last night, I was looking for large format astro images for my office.

[Champagnerocker]

You can get prints (with or without frames and other knobs on) of the astronomy photo of the year winners from Greenwich Observatory

Although to be honest i prefered the pics they had of the 2011 competition and i don't think that they do them anymore. There are loads of great DSO prints at the Deep Sky Colours website; my favourite is this long exposure of Orion which i may well purchase when i (finally) get round to doing some decorating of my own

[ollypenrice]

SGL's highly talented Tom O'Donoghue (TomO'D on here) is a professional astrophotographer who has exhibitions of his work and sells lovely high quality prints to the public. To my mind these have far more impact than 'seen before' images from Hubble etc. Above all Tom's a widefield specialist who builds up exquisite mosaics of huge swathes of sky at a resolution rarely, if ever, seen before. He has spent some time going into how to get good quality large format prints made. I'll alert him to this thread. I don't pretend to be a totally independent party here since Tom and I are friends who sometimes collaborate on projects but my preceding comments are totally sincere.

Olly

[Tom OD]

Thanks for the comments and the heads up Olly.

Hi Phil, I sell my prints out of Dublin in Tubes. Framed pics that I have used in exhibitions can be picked up also. Check out my website for more details. I can send you a larger version to inspect if you're interested.

My webiste is www.astrophotography.ie

Tom.