We'd love you to take part in the June Imaging Challenge. Please post your deep-space images of M8 in this thread. Discussions about the images can also be in this thread.
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Its a few weeks old and a roughie , first attempt at using a guide scope manually while imaging through a SCT , made a error near the end of the exposure with a overcorrection and came out in the shot.
Me too,
but in the spirit of things elected to use the wee 80mm refractor instead of the beast.
I also took a little artistic license and shot both M8, and M20, and got the guru to stictch them together. Each was 4x3 minutes at ISO1600, Nikon D100, Zeiss ED80/840, with a Tak .75x focal reducer. StarMate of course.
Hi Mike,
Yep you guessed it. Tied two pieces of 1mm wire across the front, just to see what difference it would make. I was happy with the result from it. I may do it again.
Also tis shot was the my first focussed with DSLRFocus. Pig to use, but I think it was worth it. The SCT's don't snap focus too well due to the large central obstruction, but the 9.25 is better than the C8 due to faster primary mirror. f/2.5 as opposed to f/2.
Cheers
Hi all,
Terrible weather were having! I stayed up until 4am this morning just to get 30 minutes of M8 in between the cloud banks. I was really after something else, but the gaps were only big enough for 1 minute exposures so I thought I'd try something bright that was in a cloud hole
This is 15 minutes unfiltered with 5 minutes each of RGB. i'd like to go really deep with this, it turned out pretty good for such short exposures.
WOW Eddie, I was just looking at the pictures of "The Tower" taken by the Hubble in the latest AS&T and here you go and get a "backyard" picture of it. Damn that's good
Thanks Paul! It's so frustrating, I was watching the images come out and could see so much detail in there but just couldn't get enough images to clean it up. I reckon a lot of the low-contrast stuff in there would jump out with another 45 minutes of exposures. I spent a lot of time standing in my backyard cursing the clouds last night
I'll come down and join you. I know its good for the farmers and the dams, but boy it gets frustrating. I can see I'm going to have to look at a permanent set up. By the time I lug everything outside and get up it, its often to late and the cloud has beaten me.
I spent a lot of time standing in my backyard cursing the clouds last night
Welcome to my world!! Nice image Eddie. Intersting to see the blue bias of the DSLR vs. your CCD. Not actually sure which colour bias I prefer. The purist would go for the red, but is terms of asthetics they are both nice. In some ways I prefer the Blue, but that could just becuase I'm used to it!!
Stunning as usual Eddie. I can see that it would've benefited from more exposures, it's a little less smooth (a bit noisier) than your usual highest quality shots.
But the depth even in that short time is amazing, great job!
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