After seeing Colin's SMC showing a tidal tail of stars I had not seen before I wanted to image the area to see what it takes to show it.
This image is just luminance and showed with some pushing. I am not showing it as a finished image as it was more an experiment but it lays the ground for a future image showing the area and with more exposure.
That's fantastic Greg! I do want to revisit this again once I get my widefield mono setup setup. Just waiting for some rings and things so that I can mount everything securely.
Your FOV is pretty much perfect. I have wondered if there was a fainter tail that could be picked up in more than 2 hours with a DSLR.
Thanks Martin. Though its really Colin who started this project. I was wondering how well it would show up with a sensitive CCD. It probably needs 8 hours to show easily without excessive pushing.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
That's fantastic Greg! I do want to revisit this again once I get my widefield mono setup setup. Just waiting for some rings and things so that I can mount everything securely.
Your FOV is pretty much perfect. I have wondered if there was a fainter tail that could be picked up in more than 2 hours with a DSLR.
I looked at your image to get the orientation right as its a bit of guess as to which part it was from.
Have you had a chance to try Ha yet Greg? I'm not entirely sure on my colour balance as I had a filter on the lens that night that caused some CA. The tidal tail looks quite blue which makes sense. Gravitational interaction causes star formation so there should be a bit of ionised Ha down in that region. I may have to look and see if I can find some of the 21cm line in that area.
Awesome Greg!
It will be great to go super deep on this....
Cheers,
Tim
I wanted to see if it was worth the effort before I commited valuable imaging time.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Have you had a chance to try Ha yet Greg? I'm not entirely sure on my colour balance as I had a filter on the lens that night that caused some CA. The tidal tail looks quite blue which makes sense. Gravitational interaction causes star formation so there should be a bit of ionised Ha down in that region. I may have to look and see if I can find some of the 21cm line in that area.
There is very little Ha in the SMC Colin. I have done Ha in the area before, there are patches of Ha in the SMC but its not like the LMC that way.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Bravo, Greg. Totally tight and convincing.
Cheers Mike.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Yeah great stuff Greg good to see some different rarely revealed things too.
Thanks Mike.
Sure it can be niiiice ...but fair suck, enough M8's and M20's already
Of course... if I ever get this FSQ up and running... I am sure to shoot the pair too at some stage
Mike
Let me keep this quote when we see your M8/M20 FSQ shot eh?
