The Blue Horsehead Nebula IC 4592

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

A beautiful image Mike - great to see you wide-field rig working so well

[Jeff]

Stunning result Mike!
Looks at least as good as an IC4592 APOD I just looked at.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Mike that's a work of great beauty. A delight and a joy.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Gas, dust, reflection nebulosity and all bright. Yep noice. Excellent.

Thanks Paul

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Don’t you just love that FOV! Fantastic.

Cheers Rod

Originally Posted by Slawomir

A beautiful image Mike - great to see you wide-field rig working so well

This rig is sensational I feel very lucky to possess it, I hardly have to do anything

Originally Posted by Jeff

Stunning result Mike!
Looks at least as good as an IC4592 APOD I just looked at.

Well thanks Jeff glad you think so

Originally Posted by Placidus

Mike that's a work of great beauty. A delight and a joy.

Is this Jose Carreras or Trish writting this?...either way thanks muchly guys

Mike

[atalas]

Wonderful

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Wow that's deep. Probably the best image I've seen of this object.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Crikey, some one get all this dust out of my eyes please!

Amazing, Mike - soooooooooo deep James Cameron would be proud

Nice one

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Yes insanely deep, and just a beautiful image Mike! Enjoy the likely accolades i expect

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Superb Mike....absolutely stunning

Erik

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by atalas

Wonderful

Cheers big Louie

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Wow that's deep. Probably the best image I've seen of this object.

Cool ...thanks Pete

Originally Posted by Andy01

Crikey, some one get all this dust out of my eyes please!

Amazing, Mike - soooooooooo deep James Cameron would be proud

Nice one

Thanks Andy

Originally Posted by SimmoW

Yes insanely deep, and just a beautiful image Mike! Enjoy the likely accolades i expect

Thanks Simon, hey, just glad you liked it mate

Originally Posted by E_ri_k

Superb Mike....absolutely stunning

Erik

Wow, glad you think so Erik

Mike

[markas (Mark)]

Great image, Mike


Mark

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Nice detail, colour, depth etc etc, just what we’d expect from you. However, I think the orientation could be better. It looks more like a dog howling at the moon than a horse. I think you could make a better look by rotating 90deg counterclockwise, so the head points down in the usual horsie fashion.
Geoff

[LewisM]

Mike was this image native FL, or did you use the reducer?

If reducer, which one? (there are 3 reducers for the FSQ 106ED family - I have the QE0.73 for my EDXIII)

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by markas

Great image, Mike


Mark

Cheers Mark

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice detail, colour, depth etc etc, just what we’d expect from you. However, I think the orientation could be better. It looks more like a dog howling at the moon than a horse. I think you could make a better look by rotating 90deg counterclockwise, so the head points down in the usual horsie fashion.
Geoff

Thanks Geoff and yes I did try rotating it, for the reason you say...but for me the stallion lifting his head up did it for me and seemed more dramatic

Originally Posted by LewisM

Mike was this image native FL, or did you use the reducer?

If reducer, which one? (there are 3 reducers for the FSQ 106ED family - I have the QE0.73 for my EDXIII)

No reducer used, it was taken at the native F5 which gives me a 4deg X 4deg FOV.

I would indeed like a reducer but the one to suit my big 52mm diagonal 16803 chip would be the 645 reducer... which is around AU$3000 ...not sure it would be really worth it ...but would be nice to have of course

Mike

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Cheers Mark



Thanks Geoff and yes I did try rotating it, for the reason you say...but for me the stallion lifting his head up did it for me and seemed more dramatic



No reducer used, it was taken at the native F5 which gives me a 4deg X 4deg FOV.

I would indeed like a reducer but the one to suit my big 52mm diagonal 16803 chip would be the 645 reducer... which is around AU$3000 ...not sure it would be really worth it ...but would be nice to have of course

Mike

No you should be able to use the cheaper reducer and it works fine with a Proline 16803:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/124761790/large

Whether or not you want to image at around 330mm though is another question. I'd say it has limited usefulness.

Greg.

[LewisM]

I know this guy in Canberra that is probably selling his QE0.73 reducer with the step-in adaptor

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

No you should be able to use the cheaper reducer and it works fine with a Proline 16803:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/124761790/large

Whether or not you want to image at around 330mm though is another question. I'd say it has limited usefulness.

Greg.

Hmm?...I was lead to believe that only the 645 would cover the 52mm circle properly (of course and then some), I was sure the other only covered 42mm..?

[LewisM]

You can try before you buy

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

You can try before you buy

...what and disrupt my currently flawlessly operating system, rebalance, new flats etc

I'm scared of change, re balancing, new flats etc ...maybe I need another FSQ and PL16803, to use with the reducer, mounted along side the current one..so I can just switch between all three rigs would that cost much

Mike

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Hmm?...I was lead to believe that only the 645 would cover the 52mm circle properly (of course and then some), I was sure the other only covered 42mm..?

Tak may be conservative with their numbers unlike many manufacturers who no doubt exaggerate.

Greg.