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Posts Made By: Thomas V Davis

March 31, 2009 01:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

CG22 in Pyxis

Posted By Thomas V Davis
In continuing with my goal of imaging dusty reflection nebulae in the
southern skies I have imaged CG22 in Pyxis. This has to be the most
difficult data I have processed in quite some time. CG22 is very
faint and making it stand out from among the 150,000 stars near it was
daunting. It is not the most breathtaking nebulae but it has ghostly
beauty nonetheless. Also, I had received an email from another imager
requesting CG22 to be imaged. Of note, there appears to be other
fainter dusty clouds nearby in the same image. Anyway, here it is:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00003d.htm

I hope you enjoy it.
Best regards,
Tom

April 1, 2009 01:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Vela nebulae

Posted By Thomas V Davis
Here is a region in Vela not commonly imaged. It contains some interesting nebulae. I put a mouse over map of the nebulae. It may take a minute to load.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_000021.htm

Tom

April 8, 2009 03:05 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Dark Doodad

Posted By Thomas V Davis
Here is the Dark Doodad in Musca. It is a pretty molecular cloud that
in places isn't so dark!

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007b.htm

Comment, criticisms welcome.

Tom

April 9, 2009 12:18 AM Forum: A Day in the Life of the Administrator

What's with the blank name?

Posted By Thomas V Davis
What's with the blank name on this ad (let alone the asking price):

http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/details.asp?classified_id=621512

Just curious. I've never seen a blank name before.

Tom

April 10, 2009 10:42 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

An Experiment in finding dust

Posted By Thomas V Davis
I saw that there was supposed to be dark nebulae the region of Lupus. I decided to image the region and see what I could get. This is not supposed to be a "pretty picture". No framing; just point and shoot (for 11 hours total). Here's what I got:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007a.htm

Lots of stuff everywhere I point my scope! It may take a while to load with the mouse-over.

Tom

May 3, 2009 05:29 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 6188 narrowband

Posted By Thomas V Davis
Here is my interpretation of the region in Ara surrounding NGC 6188.
There are many fascinating shapes and details in this region. I'm
still new at narrowband and I am still trying to get a hang of the
color scheme. I'm pleased to see the outer shell of NGC 6164-5 which is rarely seen.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007c.htm

Comments and/or criticisms are welcome.

Best regards,
Tom

May 11, 2009 03:01 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

IC 2948

Posted By Thomas V Davis
For the last little while I have been imaging the so called "Running Chicken Nebula". I haven't been able to see the chicken with any
confidence, but this is the best guess orientation that I could come
up with. Lots of clouds have have been interrupting the imaging so I
ended up with more data than I thought. Imagine that, more data,
rather than my usual "not enough"data!!

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007e.htm

Comments or criticisms welcome.

Best regards,
Tom

May 12, 2009 05:05 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Dust within dust

Posted By Thomas V Davis
The weather in South Australia has been very fickle lately, but I did
manage to image the dust near IC 4605. Stretching the data brings out
some very interesting details in these dark nebulae. Of note is the
small reflection nebula DG 143 near the star V2394 Oph. I'm still
playing with the data but here is a first pass image. The part I love
the most is the complex layering of dust in B44 (the large dark nebula
to the upper left of IC 4605).

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007f.htm


I framed this so show IC4605 but I wanted the dust to be the main eye
catcher (as you know, I love that dust)!


Best regards,
Tom

May 23, 2009 12:57 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

LBN 406 in Draco

Posted By Thomas V Davis

Hard to believe, but there is a reflection nebula in Draco. LBN 406 is very faint and appears to be void of much color. Here it is -- not the prettiest but cool looking dust clouds:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_000081.htm

BTW, this was my first attempt at L-OSC combine. I thought for my first OSC image I'd try an object that is really, really faint! Heck with the easy colorful targets For the OSC I de-Bayered into individual R,G,B files then processed as if they were taken with R,G,B filters.

Tom

May 30, 2009 02:01 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

A shocker in Serpens! Sh2-64

Posted By Thomas V Davis
I decided to image Sh2-64 in Serpens because it looked interesting in the few images already out there. But when I processed the data I was shocked by the amount of dust in the region. So much so that it begins to obscure Sh2-64 itself! I was not expecting this. I am delighted to say the least because as you all know I love duty targets.

To gather data fast I used two scopes with two different cameras. This image is an LumshockedSC combination.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_000082.htm

I also put an image of just the OSC data on the website as well.

Comments/criticisms?

Tom

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