My deepest ever astro image, PN K1-3

[tornado33]

Hi all
Just did my longest total exposure, a big 2 hours!
Planetary K1-3 in Scorpius (too faint and obscure to have an NGC or IC designation apparently). Ive imaged this before but never in such detail.
6x20 mins ISO 400, UHCS filtered.
Hutech modded 350D, 10 inch F5.6 of axis hand guided ,yes I sat at the scope for a total of 2 hours to do it lol. Cropped centre area from a larger image. Processed in IRIS and Photoshop.
Scott

[ballaratdragons]

Hooly-Dooly Scott!

Amazing!!!! 2 hours and every star is still round and that's with hand-guiding for 2 hours!!!!!!!!

Excellent work.

[iceman]

Stunning work Scott.. I love this faint and obscure stuff you grab. So much different than the obvious bright favourites that most people image.

True dedication.

[Dennis]

What an extraordinary image, from a Herculean guiding effort - well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

:eyepop: Ho Hum another boring effort by Scott (how did you find it, let alone capture such a wonderful image). Mate this 2 hour guiding but is a bit hum drum now:D . All you got for your effort was a little tiny spec, probably dust on the sensor:lol: . what about a real effort like 4 or 6 hours:scared: . I can see you now, wearing the baseball cap with the twin drink supply and a chaff bag around your neck for fodder, sitting on the barstool, guiding away happily singing to ABBA's greatest hits;) on repeat:lol: :D

So what exactly is this obscure creature? Has anyone else imaged it?

[Lester]

Wow! Scott,

that is presission driving for 2 hours, no falling asleep at the wheel here. Well done mate.

[tornado33]

Thanks everyone :)
I first found it my looking through planetaries in Star Atlas pro, anything thats big enough to be worth imaging, I used the DSS function to download a Deep Sky survey image to see if its worth imaging, not too faint lol. Typically anything that appears on the DSS images I can reach with 2 hours of imaging :)
To reach the faintest objects on the newer UKST Ha survey I might have to go 6 or so hours lol, or go for at least 2 hours with my Ha filter.
Scott
Scott

[RB]

Superb Scott.

Amazing work, well done.

[TidaLpHasE]

:)Well done Scott, as Mike said, that's dedication for sure.

It looks like that scope would be a wobbletronic special, but in the right hands with expertise wonderful images are produced:thumbsup:

Keep em coming.

[Striker]

wow 6 x 20 minutes looking through an eyepiece manualy guided...that is dedication and patience..well done.

[venus]

Lydia

[ving]

great scott!

i mean great... scott :)

thats deeper than barry whites voice!

[Orion]

It sure is amazing Scotty!:thumbsup:

[EzyStyles]

incredible scott!! i always struggle with star jumping .

[rogerg]

I used to really love sitting there for a few hours guiding images. Quite relaxing providing it's a good guiding position. I haven't done it for a while and probably would have trouble finding the time & paitents to do it now. But it sure makes the images rewarding at the end!

Just don't sit there long enough for the neighbourhood spiders to build a web over you :)

Nice bright image for your efforts too.

Roger.

[tornado33]

Thanks
LOL one summers night a small spider DID start to build a web off me , I felt it when I got up.
Scott