An eagle in Collingwood colours...

[Peter Ward]

I suspect the title may be a little cryptic....:D

Anyway, hot off the press....

The eagle (has landed) here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery319.html)

P.S.
AP make such sweet optics :love:

[alpal]

Dear Peter,
top image.
You're making everyone want a Astro-Physics RHA 305mm F3.8 Honders Astrograph.

cheers
Allan

[LewisM]

Picture says it all...

[Star Catcher]

What a great result Peter and nice depth @ 2 hours! I expect one a night with the clear weather continuing in Sydney :)

Ted

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Ted...with the moon now about, I'm hoping to get SII & OIII in while the weather holds.



:lol:



Like eagles, RHA's are a rare bird. I'm not sure if AP will be making any more.

[Larryp]

Wonderful image, Peter-so much detail

[Andy01]

Beautiful - such drama, bit like Collingwood themselves eh? :)

[gregbradley]

Wonderful image. The smaller pixels of the 8300 are a good match for those fast sharp optics.

Greg.

[Octane]

You've gotta be happy with that. Such fine detail in the clouds and pinpoint stars!

H

[Peter Ward]

Thanks gents!

I'm hoping the weather co-operates for the rest of the NB capture :prey:

[SkyViking]

Very impressive Peter, that resolution is looking nice and sharp :thumbsup: You've captured some good detail in the dark globules too, providing a nice sense of depth.
I'm sure the final colour image will be awesome.

[Peter Ward]

Ta Rolf... Managed to get three hours of OIII, needs way more, plus more again of SII....sadly all on hold due work and weather...

[Paul Haese]

Great field of view and I look forward to the Hubble palette of this object.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Paul...that makes two of us anticipating a result. :)

I've come to the conclusion M16 is a hard target to really do well....particularly given Hubble's version burnt into the public psyche..

I'm guessing at least 6 hours of OIII and 8 of SII ....with good seeing or it will be ho-humm.

[alpal]

That's the sort of telescope I'd like but work commitments
& bad weather are making it not worthwhile.
We seem to have had 4 months of clouds in Melbourne.

cheers
Allan

[Paul Haese]

Yep that would be about right. I did this last year but never posted the results. I had to stretch the subs too much because I was not exposing for long enough with the TSA.. With that monster though you ought to get it done pretty quick. The Hubble palette on this looks pretty good and there is even a nice red blue version getting around too, Rob Gendler has one like it and I modelled my image at the time on that. In any event it will have lots of signal for you to work with.

[speach]

Please let the universe be free of magpies !!!!!

[multiweb]

Incredible details usually seen on much larger apertures. Straight to the cool wall. :thumbsup: