This one was only 23x300s collected over a few freezing mornings between 4:00am and 5:30am (sub zero cool) but for one of the mornings where my laptop froze and conspired against me. I had no end of troubles with USB and serial ports disconnecting so I called it quit after collecting only an extra 4 subs in one hour. It needs a lot more IR in the HH but the flame being brighter came up alright.
Wow! You've got the FSQ fairly singing in infrared. The stars right to the very corners are pinpoint.
It's fun to carefully compare with your 2017 image. The very blackest dust is still very black, but just inside the edges of the dust, there are lots of stars in near infrared that just aren't there in RGB.
Wow! You've got the FSQ fairly singing in infrared. The stars right to the very corners are pinpoint.
It's fun to carefully compare with your 2017 image. The very blackest dust is still very black, but just inside the edges of the dust, there are lots of stars in near infrared that just aren't there in RGB.
Great to have the two images to compare.
Very best,
Mike
Thanks mate. Yeah it's a very sharp scope. My only limitation now is guiding and keeping it in focus. Still working on both.
That's a superb shot Marc. Great to see images taken with IR....A nice clean looking image and the detail is just lovely...Tak sharp
Thanks Peter. Yes, attention to focus pays dividends with TAKs for sure. I'm looking into other filters and bandpass as well so I can image from home in the light pollution.
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A very interesting and new take on Rho, Marc. Well done
Thanks mate. It worked well. Very happy with the data. Looking forward to your widefield montages.
Great work Marc. An interesting and unusual take on some familiar objects.
The blue Horsehead looks very cool but might be confused with another object!
Great work Marc. An interesting and unusual take on some familiar objects.
The blue Horsehead looks very cool but might be confused with another object!
Thanks mate. The HH has too much LUM in it still. It was freakin' cold in the morning at 4:00am. I'll bump up the IR from home. It needs loads more and will look very different I suspect. What other object do you mean?
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Nice set of images, I have not seen those objects in IR before.
Looks Cool
Geoff
Thanks Geoff. Yes, it gives me something else to do from home with my light polluted skies. I only took the IR filter at astrofest because the seeing predictions over the week were less than ideal and I started doing planetary the first two nights.
Thanks mate. Found some old LUM raw files so I'm reprocessing some of them in PixInsight. Rick aka Ricardo Padahuan did a two day tut at astrofest on it. I'm nearly fluent in spanish.
Only just saw this thread. Great shots Marc. Certainly different to the way I do IR.
Cheers
Steve
Thanks Steve. Yeah I only use a planet IR filter so 742nm onwards and blend 50/50 with the LUM. I don't have narrowband IR filters like yours yet. I think dedicated IR bandpass to RGB works well for long FL like what you do to differentiate smaller scale structures. In wider field blocking larger chunks of the spectrum shows interesting results, some DSOs better than other. And it's great to isolate Sii or other stuff that there's not much of. The blue lagoon was an unexpected result. I reckon that could work well for other targets.
