Not been about for a while nice to get back and do what I love the best. I have been so busy travelling and building a big observatory project in Spain .....14 piers in total! ...I thought I would post some my spoils from all of the hard work.....BTW the wife keeps saying its not hard work....but I know best!!!
Most surprising was the shot of Barnard's 7. I ended up only using a small amount of the original data set. In the end it was only 1hr 40mins total. Taken with a latest gen OSC back illuminated Cmos.....I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor from the amount of signal in it!....I'm converted!!
Thanks for looking
Peter Shah
Part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud Barnard's 7 dark nebula, Imaged with the 105 f1.4 Sigma lens and ASI2600MC. 20x 300s unguided (Imaged remotely in Spain)
M45 and the Large Molecular Cloud - 12hrs total 300s, 180s and 60s unguided exposures. Imaged with a 105mm 1.4 Sigma lens @ f2 with an ASI2600 OSC (Imaged remotely in Spain) https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/Ljl_...0_kWXURFLk.jpg
Thanks everyone for the feedback, it's really appreciated
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Originally Posted by Benjamin
Wonderful images Peter. Great colour, super fine details and wonderful sheets of galactic dust. Thanks for sharing them :-)
Thank you Ben
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
You do great work Peter! You should post here more often. Beautiful images!
I hope to be posting more often, I will just have to find the time.
I do like this forum over others. The attitude to constructive criticism is much better, with the aim to help improve our skill set.
I really like the pleiades widefield. It's lower here for us and we don't get to capture much of the surrounding faint brown stuff.
That NGC7822 field is gorgeous. Such vibrant saturated colours and details.
Great set of images Peter, very enjoyable view, hard to pick a favorite
Are you using the original OOUK corrector in your AG12?
Simeis 147 would be a good fit for that FSQ+reducer, if you had the 16803 chip..huh?
Mike
Thanks Mike, Yes still using the original corrector on the AG12, it's performing really nicely.
The FSQ's have the Full frame (35mm) cmos sensor so its a good enough for now and it has small pixels for the shorter focal length. That's why the PL-16803 was put on the 12.5 RCOS....it's fitted with the corrector so is a really good match and the longer focal length suites the bigger pixels.
I really like the pleiades widefield. It's lower here for us and we don't get to capture much of the surrounding faint brown stuff.
That NGC7822 field is gorgeous. Such vibrant saturated colours and details.
Its a stunning object often imaged showing it to be very red but it actually has so much more colour in it.
Thanks Mike, Yes still using the original corrector on the AG12, it's performing really nicely.
The FSQ's have the Full frame (35mm) cmos sensor so its a good enough for now and it has small pixels for the shorter focal length. That's why the PL-16803 was put on the 12.5 RCOS....it's fitted with the corrector so is a really good match and the longer focal length suites the bigger pixels.
Ah ok, cool, sounds like you had a plan... and have a veritable menagerie of rigs now, to suit a wide range of targets ...awesome
Thank you Chris that's my favourite too ...Im still trying to get over the fact it is only 1hr 40mins total exposure....Camera technology has really come on
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Originally Posted by AdamJL
Good grief, that is beyond stunning. Well done!!
Thank you Adam
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Ah ok, cool, sounds like you had a plan... and have a veritable menagerie of rigs now, to suit a wide range of targets ...awesome
Mike
Mike in all honestly I've been playing the whole project down...but whole thing has taken over 2years to build with thousands of miles driving to Spain and back, going at least 10 visits a year trialling and building kit combinations ....I've been doing this with a friend of mine. The Observatory has 14 scopes in total the smallest is the 105lens and the largest is the 17in Planewave on an L500 mount and the new Kepler KL-4040 (phenomenal bit of kit) ....nearly 3meter FL doing unguided...its ridiculous!
Its been a massive learning curve and a huge amount of stress. There are a few things to fine tune but 90% there now. Finally being able to produce some images from it all.
Mike I would love to say that I owned it all....but my pockets are not that deep. Its been myself and a friend who has designed and build everything.....I get to control it all maintain and run it ....it means late nights and constant trips to Spain......but is like a dream come true (as I'm sure you can imagine) I'm very proud of the observatory and as difficult as its been it's been equally as fun.
Finally getting some data out of it is very rewarding and makes it all worth it.
...awesome 
...Im still trying to get over the fact it is only 1hr 40mins total exposure....Camera technology has really come on
