It's a long time since I have last submitted anything here.
Two days ago my girlfriend Kaja warned me that here is a new challenge - Night Sky. I am an enthusiastic astrophotographer so I decided to return here in DPC.
And so I planned to capture this nebula in the southern part of Milky Way. With my girlfriend we went to Bohor (it's a hill) and captured this beautiful piece of sky. I hope you like it.
The technical data is: Canon 350D, modded, telescope OO Newton f/4,5 20cm, ISO 800, processed in Iris and Photoshop. Image is a bit too noisy, but anyway I think it's a great deal to compete.
Have a nice day!
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So... I have mixed feelings. I think that's great to achieve such a good result here in DPC (my second score above 7) but in the other hand I swear that I way pretty sure about being in the front page. But anyway I have to graduate to all the three winners, their pictures are really good.
Thank you for a lot of nice comments and high votes. Maybe I succeed next time. More about my work you can see here.
13-6-08:
Wohoooooo! I can't believe it. I just came here to check out if there is maybe another comment and I just keep looking what is going on. The front page, holly cow? A yellow! Weeehaaa!!! Like Citadel said, the ribbon was delayed.
Thank you a lot DPC! I'll definitely return, hope with even better stuff.
So, now I am adding a photo of M16 which Hubble took: Here. You can see these structures in the center of my image. Enjoy!
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Well...you are now on the front page. Sorry your ribbon was delayed. Really enjoyed your entry and I was one of the 70 people to give it a 10. (I don't get the goofs who gave this a 3 or less at all).
Apologies for mistaking you for jlanoue, although surely it is not an insult. Disappointed of course this didn't ribbon - maybe one day there will be an Astrophotography Challenge. Maybe. Thank you for sharing these at DPC.
Argh! Had I known about this challenge I would've entered!! I was at a star party at a dark sky site on May 31st!!! Ugh!!
Great shot of M16... and thanks to the advanced rules you could stack too! I like the diffraction spikes :)
Have you heard about cloudynights.com? There is a DSLR imaging forum that is quite active. I am a participant there (by my full name) as well. You would be welcome to post there, plus you might pick up a few tips.
This is simply an amazing image, not to take anything away from the top three (of which I'm one) but this deserved to ribbon. I've shot this DSO repeatedly over the years, and due to it's low declination in the southern sky, I have failed repeatedly. Great shot, easily one of the best.
Well, you sure had many of us fooled as to whose image this was!
Astrophotography of deep space is so demanding, polar alignment has to be spot on, super long exposures, usually multiple exposures, fussy focus issues...this is a superb effort and as I'm sure others will say, was fully deserving of front page status.
Of course, this is beautiful. Probably the challenge blue ribbon. There are some hot pixels, which do not look the same as the stars. The star effect on the shining stars is very nice. Great astronomy. Bumping up a bit.
8 - Only one person at DPC who produces this 'realm'. As I've said before, 'if only' something could be done to get rid of the noise in the black areas. Otherwise - good discernible depth in the nebula. I like the star 'bursts', but perhaps a slight rotation to get them 'straight'... but I am no astrophotographer.... but you certainly are. Thank you again for bringing these to DPC.
Wow, amazing picture. This is my favorite for the blue ribbon, i am not able to imagine the amount of work and patiente needed to take a shot like this one. Congratulations on this wonderful shot.
I suppose you could call this a night sky - not what I see when I look up, but hey - it's awesome. Can't argue with a nebula, nor with the ability to photograph one so well.
I've seen better but certainly I've seen worse. For this challenge, I'm thinking this is exactly what they are looking for and I certainly could not do any better or even come close myself. The thing that gets me is for some reason, it looks like a photo of a photo. I doubt anyone would do that though. I think you stand a serious shot at a ribbon and it's most technical photo in the challenge.
I take it, that this is not the kit 18-200 lens, even with a 1,6 teleconverter, right? Amazing what you can find up there, given a good telescope and knowing where to look. Great shot!
interesting..but somehow it does not look as sharp as some of the others...don t listen to me.. I do not even know if this kind of exposures are suposed to look sharp.
Eagle Nebula, M16
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