IC434 (again) First Light Borg 125

[PatrickGilliland]

Just picked up a new 125 to see if any better than the 101 - I think so but thought I would share my early results.

I have used my old 101 limited RGB on this image as moon is in play and could not gather any new data.

New Ha 8 x 1200 with old RGB 4x600 binned x2 per channel.  Followed by the Ha only - all feedback welcome - please consider HA was also taken in heavy moon light - thanks for looking.

Not sure why but upload seems to have added a lot of noise to image - can be viewed here without noise? http://www.astrobin.com/full/152692/H/

Thanks

Paddy

[cfpendock]

This is one which in my opinion looks as good (in a different way) in mono as colour.  Did  you make any special control for Altinak?

A couple of very nice images, Patrick.

Chris

[xs2man]

That is truly amazing.  I absolutely love the level of detail and sharpness to these pics.

[ultranova]

very nice indeed,the HA has defined the detail in this shot,

Looks like the Borg 125 is working as expected  ( top notch)

Paul

[Epicycle]

Looking good Paddy, it looks as if the new Borg will deliver!

E.

[gingergeek]

Nice shot, are those Borgs discontinued now ?

[PatrickGilliland]

Thanks all

-Nothing special with star control on Altinak - think the gear did it for me - just generally keep an eye on it during processing.

-Think 125 is now discontinued (new to me though).  But I hear pentax and Borg are talking again so may be reintroduced.

Thanks

Paddy

[Piero]

Superb work! 

I think the increase in noise when uploading is due to an automated and stronger level of jpg compression applied to your images to reduce their size. 

Anyway, I don't do imaging, but I can say that the original image in your link is one of the best I saw. 

Thank for sharing

[Freddie]

Very nice shot, lots going on in there. The Ha looks good but the colour adds an extra dimension to it.

[PatrickGilliland]

Thanks piero and Freddie, had some colour so thought it was worth a look.

Glad you liked.

Paddy

[carastro]

That is really great.  Stands out from the crowd.

Carole 

[johnrt]

Great star control and I like that blue hue around altinak. A very nice image all round and a great advert for Borg as an imaging scope.

[Martin-Devon]

Excellent image Paddy, you've managed to get the nice orange-hue also to the Flame nebula, often this comes our reddish. I think a lot of folks will start looking at Borg refractors now, since your images certainly shown what these are capable of.

Martin

[morimarty]

A beautiful image Paddy, I really like your processing on this one!

[symesie04]

absolutely lovely image. Real nice detail in the curtain.

[Chris]

Not bad

[PatrickGilliland]

Thanks All - too many names to mention so the colloquial all will have to do.

The 125 certainly seems to deliver.  Tried to be really thorough last night and take another 7 x 1200 ha on 125 (completed) then rigged up the 101 for its turn on same set and cloud rolled in despite BBC insisting it was clear! 

I guess I will have to go with the consensus as I will have to make the decision to purchase in next few days and pretty sure the weather will not be on my side. 

Feedback appreciated - have some e-series astrodon's LRGB's on trail as of tomorrow so be interesting to redo with rgb when they are rigged up (not to mention I took the old rgb a while back and certainly not the best data to build an image with so hopefully more to come in a few weeks on this one).

Thanks again

Paddy

[Gina]

Lovely

[PatrickGilliland]

Thanks Gina.

Paddy

[x6gas]

That is a truly wonderful result Paddy.  As I am sure you know, you've lost most of the blue from the image - Alnitak is a blue giant, for instance - but the result is stunning nonetheless and in fact that makes this something different to the rest.  Lovely stuff.

[Stardust]

excellent image

[PatrickGilliland]

Thanks x6gas  and Stardust - tbh had not even thought about the blue equation but even with my basic grasp of nuclear fusion and the stars it is obvious that a stat of that size is not yellow!  My bad, had to be red or blue.  I was editing a version with some more ha data and have rectified that error.

Thanks for feedback and bringing to my attention.

Paddy

Updated image

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Lots of good Horse & Flame shots being posted at the moment, but that one is a cut above the norm.

[PatrickGilliland]

Thank you Knight.....

Appreciate the feedback - still some work to be done but that will have to wait for that lunar object to remove itself from the sky - aka need some new RGB, will be trying 7-9 600's at bin 1 on new astrodon e-series to see how much extra quality that provide and never done bin 1 rgb so will be interesting just to see.

Paddy

[PatrickGilliland]

Hi All, for completeness and maybe being a little bit to finicky I have what I think is a final version now.  This has dealt with some of the more obvious halo issues including the large ones in the curtain area.

Thanks for looking and feedback again....

Paddy