Jewel Box

[SimmoW]

Getting better with non-guided shots, this one is 30 by 1 minute. The scope is a very,very widefield one,as you can see. Sheesh, it's only 430mm F/L. I really like how it puts each object into context.

Left the satellite trail in, thought it adds something. Then again, couldn't be bothered re-stacking. Yet another check to perform before working on an image..

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3883/14289742760_b50e3ddac6_h.jpg

[pixelsaurus]

Nice one. What is the fuzzy at the top between the centre and right edge? Cheers.

[SimmoW]

Thanks, and very good question, it's almost like a mini-horsehead. I'm loading to Astrometry.net, hopefully it's a new discovery! Yeah, sure..

[SimmoW]

No identified item in Astrometry. Hopefully an expert can chime in, it's a curious little object.

[LightningNZ]

It's a little emission neb I think, which you have picked up really nicely. It often shows up in wider field images as a few pixels of red in the Coal Sack. Being round it kinda looking like a planetary neb but pretty sure from memory that it's not. It has a horribly long designation. If no one else posts I'll try tracking it down for you later.
-Cam

[SimmoW]

Thanks Cam. Do you or anyone else know of a decent plate solver (not too expensive) that I could try? Astrometry is proving to be insufficient for all the nice objects I'm seeing in these images.

I have pixinsight, I'll need to look up how to use its similar tools.

[cometcatcher]

Really nice image Simon.

The little red nebula, I can't remember the name but I asked the same question when I accidentally stumbled on it a couple of years ago myself.

Astrobin plate solves all gallery uploads. It's free too.

[mithrandir]

The nebula you are probably talking about is RCW71 aka Gum46.

astrometry.net will create a FITS version of the image with the coordinate WCS information embedded.

If you then feed that image into Aladin (http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml) you can overlay catalogs from Simbad to your heart's content.

[rcheshire]

Very nice Simon. One look says Takahashi. Very satisfying to achieve a nice result unguided, and at 430mmFL. Terrific.

[SimmoW]

Thanks Kevin.

Finally got a plate solver up and running, Unimap seems really easy to use once it's set up.

Here's its mapping, appears to be a sexily named object called "PGC3057659"

[SimmoW]

Now that's a lovely sentiment, thanks. It's taken me awhile to try and do the scope justice, a pleasing learning curve. Yes, it's so good to get reasonable subs unguided. Waiting for a guider to come soon, it'll be even sharper in the near future.

[SimmoW]

Cool suggestion maaate!! Sounds amazing, I'm quite interested in exploring the details of most images, thanks heaps

[SimmoW]

Downloaded Aladin, very easy and impressive software, thanks!:thumbsup:

[pixelsaurus]

Thar she blows http://galaxymap.org/cat/view/gum/46

[cometcatcher]

Gum46 is just begging for a big scope to be pointed at it.