Dark Tower (another work in progress)

[RickS]

I have been collecting Ha on the Dark Tower for several nights now. Just hoping that I'll get decent conditions for a new moon night in the next couple of months so I can get RGB data at a dark site.

Scope was a Ceravolo 300 at f/9, camera an Apogee U16M. This is a total of about 22 hours with individual subs of 30 minutes.

There's a high res version at Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/112028/0/

Cheers,
Rick.

[Octane]

That's going to be epic! Awesome effort so far. :)

H

[RickS]

Thanks, H. There are a couple of very nice images of the DT around already so I have a tough job ahead of me to produce something that doesn't look sad by comparison :)

Cheers,
Rick.

[multiweb]

That looks excellent Rick. All those jets are very well defined. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Very nice Ricki, is that the full FOV at F9?

Mike

[RickS]

Thanks, Marc!



Ta, Mike. It's rotated and cropped a bit so that's 3569x3163 of the original 4096x4096.

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

That's a beauty Rick.

Looking very good.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Yep; I am looking forward to seeing that finished. Nice field of view; I can also see some faint striations around the outside of the tower. Very nice.

[RobF]

More please! Was that from the back yard Rick?

[Ross G]

Amazing detail Rick.

It's going to be a great photo.

Ross.

[RickS]

Thanks, Greg & Paul!



Ta, Rob. Yes, 3nm filters and automation vs the lights of Brisvegas :lol:



Thanks, Ross. I hope so!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Great work Rick!:thumbsup:

Awesome amount of detail, looking forward to the final result on this one.

Cheers,

Justin.

[RickS]

Thanks, Justin!

[Regulus]

I really like that photo as it is Rick and really looking forward to the final product.

[marc4darkskies]

Looking forward to seeing that one finished Rick - verrrry nice indeed!

Cheers, Marcus

[RickS]

Thanks, Trevor.



And thanks, Marcus! I especially like your HaRGB image of the Dark Tower. That's what originally made me add it to my list of cool objects :)

Cheers,
Rick.

[atalas]

Good start Rick....should be a good one.

[ozstronomer]

Great Ha image Rick, should look great with RGB added

[RickS]

Thanks, Louie & Geoff!