Ic 5148/50

Stevec35 (Steve) · #1 09-09-2010, 06:00 PM

Hi to all

The weather and other issues haven't allowed me to do much imaging recently but I managed to get this one done over the last week or so. The subject is the Grus planetary nebula IC 5148/50 which is rarely imaged for some reason. Hope you like it.

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/IC5148_STL6303_RC.htm

cybereye (Mario) · #2 10-09-2010, 07:02 AM

Steve,

I've not seen this before. I like it!

Cheers,
Mario

[1ponders] (Paul) · #3 10-09-2010, 07:31 AM

So that's what it looks like in colour

. I have a mono of it in a comet 6P_d'arrest thead, but that looks great.

It is a shame its not imaged more often Steve. Its a nice size object for moderate length scopes.

kustard (Simon) · #4 10-09-2010, 08:27 AM

Very nice!

pgc hunter · #5 10-09-2010, 08:39 AM

Excellent! Very clean and pleasing image. For some reason I always thought this object was white.

RobF (Rob) · #6 10-09-2010, 09:12 AM

Beautiful Steve!

What sort of focal length was that taken at?

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #7 10-09-2010, 11:45 AM

Nice crisp image. Colours are great to view too!

Stevec35 (Steve) · #8 10-09-2010, 01:39 PM

Thanks for the comments everyone. Rob, it's a 31.75cm Ritchey Chretien at F9 so the focal length is 2858mm.

Cheers

Steve

RobF (Rob) · #9 10-09-2010, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Thanks for the comments everyone. Rob, it's a 31.75cm Ritchey Chretien at F9 so the focal length is 2858mm.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve - that would explain why we almost never see images of it, let alone to this calibre!