Nova Centauri 2013 50mm

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #1 09-12-2013, 06:03 AM

My distance vision must be stuffed. Tried as hard as I could but was unable to spot it visually.

Anyway a couple of filtered pics, one with a CLS and one with a semi-apo filter. The Ha neb on the lower right is IC2944 the running chicken.

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #2 09-12-2013, 06:26 AM

looks like it has dimmed a fair amount. nice captures though... nothing but cloud for me.

nebulosity. (Jo) · #3 09-12-2013, 07:14 AM

Nice one Kevin, haven't been able to get a picture of it yet, hopefully there will still be something left tomorrow morning.

Jo

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #4 09-12-2013, 12:36 PM

Thanks guys. I never got an unfiltered shot without cloud, but here it is anyway.

I don't think it's necessarily faded, I think this lens makes everything a tiny dot, except for the edges where I should have stopped down more to stop streaking.

This is one case where bloated stars may actually make it more aesthetically pleasing! I have an old deep sky filter which bloats stars. If fine I should try it tomorrow to see if it helps.