Well, after my somewhat surprising banishing from IIS ... this year has been pretty lean imaging pickings for me
The copious smoke from the fires at the start of the year and then the Covid19 palava more recently, coupled with the usual Moon/cloud/life limitations we all face to various degrees, in our frustrating game, it has meant lean pickings...
Aaaanywaaaaay ....back in March, I ran the NSW police gauntlet across the NSW-ACT border, to my observatory and captured this beautiful vista of part of the Vela SNR region, with the FLI Proline16803/FSQ106EDX4 rig
Vela SNR click on image and pan around with your cursor...
For those who like to see the unadulterated full resolution pristine FSQ106EDX4 field...go HERE
Hopefully I am getting out tomorrow night and Saturday night
Last edited by strongmanmike; 14-05-2020 at 07:07 PM.
An astonishingly beautiful image, Mike. I reckon it counts as at least six separate objects worth of imaging: two different SNR's if I've understood you correctly, three Gum nebulae, and the beautiful open cluster.
An astonishingly beautiful image, Mike. I reckon it counts as at least six separate objects worth of imaging: two different SNR's if I've understood you correctly, three Gum nebulae, and the beautiful open cluster.
Most impressive.
Yeah I could crop it into two or three different images if I wished, huh?
I agree, it is beautiful but most of that is because of the subject matter itself...I did the easy part
I really like this image. Its very clever framing as the 2 gum nebulas don’t make a super interesting target by themselves.
But like that it creates a wonderful spectrum of colours.
Greg