Recent content by Mike Lewis

Really nice rendition, love the color separation and depth of this one. ML

Thanks Jim. Yes, I was looking through postings on Astrobin and saw this and then immediately realized I had never shot it due to the framing on my old scope, and not using NINA at the time so deciding a mosaic was going to be too complex. It really is a wonderful target, no question about...

Thanks Ed! I was really surprised when I realized I had not shot this yet :) ML

So I was surprised to realize that I had not yet imaged this full nebula. I had imaged the Fish Head Nebula (included in this image, can you find it?) and also the neighboring Soul Nebula, but never this one. After working on a number of fainter targets it was very nice to go after something a...

Thanks Jim - good to get some feedback here if possible before posting elsewhere. I was not familiar with this target either, I think I must have stumbled onto an image of the area on Astrobin from someone and added it to my target list. ML

So this is hot off the press and just posted here so far. Not even time to research the details on the object and the area, much less add in the details on collection and processing. perhaps I can get to that as an add to this post in the coming days. This is 21 total hours of data with 10 min...

Those are amazing, and I suspect that the final images do not really communicate how much work goes into getting seamless results like this. No doubt some advanced techniques under the covers I suspect. Great job, thanks for sharing.

Lovely Ed, love the palette on this one. Starless is a great side-by-sde presentation with the full image with stars, but I always prefer that if picking only one. ML

Very nice looking! That may be the new smart telescope to beat. A minor niggle would be a green tinge to your background, at least on my monitor. ML

Very nice work - a tour-de-force on what such a small scope and short exposures can accomplish. Seeing this and I would not have guessed it was made with a 30mm aperture smart telescope. A very nicely framed and procesed result. ML

Great work Chuck - you pulled out lots of faint definition on this, especially considering your skies... ML

very nice Ed - I agree with Jim, the amount and impact of the stars in version 1 works very well to my eye. The 2nd version looks artificially sparse on the starfield. ML

Very nice Bill - like thew amount of green that has been rertained which to my eye makes the color transitions look very natural and provides extra pop and visual interest. Great job! ML