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About Me Member General Digital Photographer AlexN-Astro23/Male/Australia Recent Activity Deviant for 1 Year
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The Horse Head - Final.

My Favorite part of the night sky!

This is the final of what has been a 3 month project.. Due to the weather I've not been able to image as much as I'd have liked, and as a result, this image took a lot longer to complete than I thought it would...

It is a total of 7 hours exposure, 5 hours is Hydrogen Luminance. The other 2 hours was RGB Colour exposure.

I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed producing it.

Alex.

Project Planning....

Wed Aug 26, 2009, 10:40 PM
With the arrival of my new wide field telescope, I've started planning my first serious astrophotography project for 2009...

I plan to take a "Mega-Data" image of M42 - The Great Orion Nebula.

Mega-data is a term used by astrophotographers to describe images with exposure times upwards of 15~20 hours.
I am planning (and hoping the weather co-operates) to capture 30 hours worth of exposure on M42.. Data will be mixed between RGB colour data, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen3 narrowband data. Majority of the sub-exposures will be between 15 and 20 minutes each, narrowband images will most likely be 30 minute sub exposures. I will take a lot of shorter exposures around the 1 minute mark to tame down the brighter areas of the nebula and give the image more depth and dynamic range...

If all goes to plan, this could be very special

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  • Listening to: Crystal Method
  • Reading: Quantum
  • Watching: Stargate Atlantis
  • Playing: The field
  • Drinking: Icey cold Corona.

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Brisbane
  • Interests: Astronomy / Astrophotography / Wildlife Photography
  • Favourite movie: Scarface
  • Favourite band or musician: Tool
  • Favourite genre of music: psytrance / rap
  • Favourite artist: M C Escher
  • Favourite poet or writer: Me (I can relate to what I write)
  • Favourite photographer: Peter Lik
  • Favourite style of art: Photography
  • Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
  • MP3 player of choice: winamp
  • Favourite game: Farcry 2 - Fallout 3
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: Stewie Griffin
  • Personal Quote: Who said what now?
  • Tools of the Trade: TMB 80/480 APO - SBIG ST8300M - Astrodon Filters - Losmandy GM8 Mount.
  • MSN: k00liez@hotmail.com

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*GOSTEONER Nov 24, 2009, 9:54:49 PM
thanx 4 the watch
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~AlexN-Astro Nov 28, 2009, 2:44:32 AM
No worries man, Awesome work....

I'm planning to set up a new DA account to house my graff work, and participate in the battlegrounds group soon too... Probably see you around there! :)
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~SGA-Maddin Aug 24, 2009, 1:02:16 PM
Thx for the favs and nice comments!! You have some pretty nice space pics too...
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~AlexN-Astro Aug 24, 2009, 11:00:41 PM
You're most welcome!

I have one of your SGA pics as my desktop background! :)

Thanks mate...
Alex.
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~Jaa-c Aug 23, 2009, 4:02:17 PM
Hey,
your astro images are terrific :+devwatch:
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~Jaa-c Oct 27, 2009, 10:04:24 AM
Hey again,
you might be interested .. [link]
Some pics a really awesome :)
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Mood: Adoration ~Cootie707 Feb 21, 2009, 9:23:35 PM
You have a terrific gallery!!! Hey, do you mind if I dedicate a deviation to you? I totally have to watch you, I can't believe how great some of your pics are.

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~AlexN-Astro Feb 27, 2009, 1:09:59 AM
Thanks so much for the kind words, By all means, if you want to dedicate a deviation, Be sure to send me a link to it so I can have a look...

Thanks again, Your encouragement means a lot.

Alex
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