Starship Asterisk*

Much better!
But the one that won (sorry to say) it is not in the same league! And I saw the first one as an APOD (despite it is a DSLR or not)!
Anyway, congratulations for the APOD.

Cheers,
paulo

Hi all,

When I saw it I went to my calendar....no, it is not the first of April!

Cheers,
paulo

Hi all,

Very nice photo of this elusive nebula!
Anyway I think that an WtIII (Whatamium III) filter would bring a litlle more detail to the upper left part of the photo


Cheers,
paulo

Yes, a nice one...
In 2011 I made a 33 hours one and I submited to APOD! Unfortunatelly, for some reason, they do not liked it



Well live goes on.

Cheers,
paulo

Whaaaat? Maybe this Soul have a...mangenta shift

Mine is under construction (Ha one pass of 15 min for a 21 tile mosaic): http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/84d4e324 ... a6b109.jpg

paulo

Hi,

I use Astrodon NB filters! And you are right, sorry! I allways thougth it was center wl ± x nm, but after reading the Astrodon specifications I see it's not!

Regards,
paulo

About today's Apod he says, Shot over 3 nights using the TMB92SS/QHY9M , this is a Hubble Palette (HST) version with SII filter assigned to Red, H-Alpha filter assigned to Green and OIII filter assigned to blue channel. Total Exposure 14.5 hours Image Information Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fr...

Hi,

Who gives this award? This is one of the worst IC443 I've ever seen!!!!
Just google for it and you will see lots of them much nicer!

Cheers ,
paulo

Very nice photo indeed! Congratulations to the author who catched a unique moment! This is a National Geography magazine photo and should deserve a prize!
But, since this is the APOD...what about the astronomy element?

Regards,
paulo

Hello, I let you here an object that was discovered only in May 2011 by N.Outters! This elusive squid it was the most dificult object I ever photographed! Even with 11h15m of OIII data the signal is so dim that it is very hard to process! Here the data: OU4 nebula in Sh2-129 Takahashi FS102NSV @ 641...

One thing is blue stars (that you may see in M13 for example) another thing is blue halos (Halas :-)). The same for the orange/red ones!!!! This picture deserved a reprocess to diminish/remove both. And at the upper right corner the stars are elongated too! And yes, there are lots of stars (Why shou...

Hello, well said Ann and Joe (about the astronomic festures in this image). This is really a great object and not that easy to process right! Chris, you are completely right....this image have so many blue (specially those blue halos that I'm wondering...(?)). Here in portugal is 8:20 am now and I n...

Hi Owlice and Ann, Yes you are both right, they require planning (as all the astropictures...imagine what the planning to make a 12 panel mosaic!) and luck too (imagine if the sky was cloudy :lol: ). I have made lots of plans too! See this one where I captured the rendez-vous between LCROSS and aste...

Yes, this a very easy picture to do! Unfortunatelly most of us (well here I talk for myself) can't afford a trip to a paradise Island like that one. As the author writes about this 2010 picture: "This pacific paradise in the southern hemisphere is Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands...

Greetings from Portugal, Each one have its own tastes (like each one have its own belly button!). Despite these kind of landscape postcard photos beeing allways nice (like a moon between the clouds, or the moon at the sunset, or someone catching the moon,...) it is not the same kind of what I call a...

I'm pleasure to share with you my new method to shot the night-sky! ... about the new method: ... Could you explain what is so great in your method and image? (Maybe I'm missing something here but I saw lots of images of this regions that are much better and taken with much lesser expensive setups)...

Congs Maritxu (do you remember the 13 asteroids thing...?). All you need is to make an HDR to get the full dynamic range. Here a pic I made in 2009 with a FS102 and a Canon 40D. (unfortunatelly I could not go further because the clouds and I only got 8 subs of each ...from 15s to 360s and only 5 sub...

vdB 142 in pseudo RGB Me again, Using only the Ha and OIII data I processed as a psudo LRGB image (L=Ha, R=Ha, G=mix of Ha and OIII and B=OIII) So, the same gear as for the Hubble palette and: Ha= 39x 20 min OIII= 30x 20min or 23 hours of data. Best Regards, paulo (at 36% of the original size) http...

vdB 142 in IC1396 Hello all, I made this one in 7 nights (started the 29 th of July and ended last 29th of August). I used my trusty Tak. FS102NSV@ 632mm + QSI532WS-M1 (from -10ºC to -20ºC) located in Portugal. Ha= 39x 20 min OIII= 30x 20 min SII= 30x 20min for a total of 33 hours! Processed in the...

Hello, I think the Pillars are a great photographic subject and they look nice in the Hubble palette (my opinion of course) :P . I will give it another try with a longer FL OTA as soon as I get my observatory ready (I'm building a small rolloff observatory at Muxagata, Portugal and I'm very anxious ...

Nice pictures Cesar, congratulations .
Thanks Owlice to put my 4 versions of it here

Cheers from portugal.
paulobao

bystander wrote:Welcome aboard the Starship Asterisk*, Paulo. Nice pic!

Thanks for the welcome and the compliment.

Cheers,
paulo

M16: The Pillars of Creation Copyright: Paulo Lobao [attachment=0]M16 - The Pilars of Creation.jpg[/attachment][/i] Hello, I'm the newest member of the forum :oops: . I'm from Portugal and I live at Matosinhos a well LP city :x . I made some photos here but my best place it is in the countryside wh...