We had a gorgeous night last Saturday in Sydney west and I set up to make it a night. Unfortunately I did something really stupid with my focuser and was packed up by 21:30. So I only got 1.5h (9x600s) on this. Still very noisy and I'm hoping to get out again when it's clear and finish it off.
Nice one Marc - that's an impressive amount of detail for just 1.5hours. Look forward to seeing how this turns out for you once you get some more sky time.
Nice one Marc - that's an impressive amount of detail for just 1.5hours. Look forward to seeing how this turns out for you once you get some more sky time.
Thanks Robert. Yeah the seeing was very good and my guiding flat lining. I packed up reluctantly kicking and screaming.
Last night was a little windy at times. Same with the seeing which was coming and going. But overall it all leveled out and it was a productive session. As I had to shoot some panels around Ophiuchus and had to wait I did the chook and ara on the way while waiting with the camera angled at 90 degrees. Turns out I can fit it all in the field facing this way. Still a little noisy so I might add to it tonight if it's clear again.
This is NGC6188 and its bipolar nebula in the lower left corner.
They look great Marc! Dragons egg is looking very nice in its own right
Thanks mate. If you take care of your stars and your field when capturing the data, which is pretty straight forward then everything else falls into place. You don't have to do any selective processing. It's the simplest way to do it. Nothing to remember or forget.
This one is the prawn from last night. I wanted to get the globs in the tail so offset it to the top left. 4.5h total integration. Would need probably double to smooth the field out.
It had been a while since I was out last and a really beautiful night.
