M20 - 5th Time Lucky!

[Andy01]

Hi everyone,
Success at last! Got out to the dark skies agin on Friday night and in spite of the inclement weather forecast managed to get 3 hrs of data before the moon popped up and the predicted clouds rolled in a few hours after they were supposed to..

Might be a bit of flexure there as the stars were a bit wobbly on a few subs, can't wait for the oag on the new QSI camera arriving soon.

High res on Astrobin below...

http://www.astrobin.com/full/114036/0/

Felt good to be back on the horse after the last stuff up when I binned 3 hrs + data x3 and lost everything!

Kinda nice imaging and wrapping up by 11pm, made a nice change to be tucked in to bed and warm before midnight with an image in the can :)

Processed in PS5 with darks, flats and dark flats.

Thanks for looking :)

Cheers

Andy

[multiweb]

Looks good. Great colours. :thumbsup: What's with the white mask?

[Andy01]

Hi Marc, thanks for your feedback :thumbsup:

The mask is a concept for the ongoing series I've been working on for the upcoming Australian Pro Photography Awards. (science & nature category).

I'm reminded of those old movies when the actor looks through binoculars and there's a dark shaped mask over the screen - so this is my interpretation of the telescope version.

Something different for the judges to ponder :)

Cheers
Andy

[The_bluester]

Great to get a result after the frustrations of the last try.

I am still aiming to have a mains connected dc power supply in the shed soon to run heaters, I would not run the mount from it until/unless it was on a ups so that a short mains interruption does not kill the tracking. I was wondering if long, active usb cables also might let you put the laptop in the shed to keep it out of the dew.